The Palazzo Grimani in Venice, an ode to the art of collecting

In often gloomy times, this is a saving ode to wonder. To nature too, to knowledge, to the arts and sciences which explore it. No other place than Venice, for so long a port of convergence of treasures gleaned from all longitudes, could better accommodate this “Cabinet of Wonders”. An exhibition that revisits the cabinets of curiosities in vogue in the 16th century^e and au 17^e centuries.

It is in the Palazzo Grimani, which for four centuries housed masterpieces of painting, precious furniture and other rare books, that Thierry Morel installed this revisited cabinet of curiosities. Under the leadership of the exhibition curator, the eye plunges into the enchantment of the collections of the past where the objects mingle in a profusion that plays with categories or chronologies. Natural rarities rub shoulders with creations borrowing from the supernatural. The harmony between objects, despite their very dissimilar natures, is perfect