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Wes Ander­son and Juman Mal­ouf have curat­ed an exhi­bi­tion in Milan

26 Jun 2019

Words by Adam Woodward

Two people, a man and a woman, sitting at a table and looking at a book together.
Two people, a man and a woman, sitting at a table and looking at a book together.
The film­mak­er and illus­tra­tor will present 537 art­works and objects at the Fon­dazione Prada.

When he’s not busy mak­ing movies, Wes Ander­son finds oth­er ways to con­tribute to con­tem­po­rary cul­ture. Case in point: the Amer­i­can direc­tor has con­ceived a new exhi­bi­tion in col­lab­o­ra­tion with the Lebanese design­er, illus­tra­tor and writer Juman Mal­ouf, which is set to open at the Fon­dazione Pra­da in Milan this September.

‘Spitz­maus Mum­my in a Cof­fin and Oth­er Trea­sures’ com­pris­es some 537 art­works hand-select­ed by Ander­son and Mal­ouf. Billed as a chal­lenge to tra­di­tion­al muse­um canons, the show reflects both artists’ per­son­al tastes and cre­ative influ­ences and is notable for its non-aca­d­e­m­ic cura­to­r­i­al approach.

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Named after one of the key pieces, ​‘Cof­fin of a Spitz­maus’, an Egypt­ian wood­en box con­tain­ing a mum­mi­fied shrew dat­ing from the 4th cen­tu­ry, the exhi­bi­tion was orig­i­nal­ly pre­sent­ed at the Kun­sthis­torisches Muse­um in Vien­na ear­li­er this year.

This new­ly expand­ed ver­sion fea­tures a wide range of objects, from minia­tures to time­pieces, wood­en box­es, and por­traits of chil­dren and noble­men as well as mete­orites and animals.

‘Spitz­maus Mum­my in a Cof­fin and Oth­er Trea­sures’ runs at Fon­dazione Pra­da in Milan 20 Sep­tem­ber to 13 Jan­u­ary, 2020.

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