Art Of The Day Weekly
#429 - from 5 May 2016 to 11 May 2016
Marguerite Nakhla, Scene in a Park, ca 1940 © Image courtesy of Barjeel Art Foundation, Sharjah
The Far East, fountains and birds chirpings
PARIS – It is not innocent to remember that the word paradise comes the Persian word that means garden. Our vision of the oriental garden rhymes with gurgling fountains, basins, shades and freshness, and we visualize beautiful women and poets strolling through to the rhythm of birds’ songs. The exhibition puts back into perspective this well engrained idea by giving details of its genesis – by using charts, models and photographs – and shows that even the most populated and polluted metropolis are capable of finding inspiration in them to renew themselves. The example of Cairo with the Al-Azhar Park financed by the Aga Khan Foundation. A temporary garden designed by landscape artist Michel Pena closes the itinerary with perfumes, colors and perspectives – among them an anamorphosis.
• Jardins d’Orient at the Institut du monde arabe, from 19 April to 25 September 2016.