Two hundred artists pay tribute to the French designer and trunk Louis Vuitton (Anchay, 1821-Asnières sur Seine, 1892) on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of his birth, with an exhibition that presents a miscellany of suggestive designs inspired by the brand’s classic trunks.
The traveling exhibition opened at the Louis Vuitton family home in Asnières sur Seine, a few kilometers northwest of Paris, will move to New York in February 2022, before continuing to other cities around the world such as London or Tokyo.
Visitors enter the exhibition directly through Louis Vuitton’s 19th-century house next to his workshop and go up to the first-floor lobby, where one of the first suitcases is found on which the designer engraved his name on 1888.
When you enter the first suitcase gallery, you return to the 21st century with light and color as the protagonists of the designs of these items, which, however, do not lose the essence and dimensions of classic Louis Vuitton trunks.
On the boxes in which they will travel around the world are these trunks, which represent the spirit of Louis Vuitton for each of the artists through fixed designs with motifs of all kinds.
Others, on the other hand, are screens with the classic shape of the pieces that show moving images with themes ranging from couple relationships to more banal ones such as cartoon series like The Simpsons.
After going down one floor, the exhibition continues with trunks that transcend the classic designs and present more daring proposals such as a stack of gold bricks or a transparent trunk with a wooden labyrinth inside where the names of all the workers of the city are engraved. the brand.
The final piece is a turntable by British DJ Benji B that collects a hundred “carefully selected” double-sided records inside a classic Louis Vuitton trunk from the 1970s.
Louis Vuitton’s visual director, Faye McLeod, stresses that the exhibition is “a real tribute to Louis’ ingenuity and entrepreneurial spirit.”
McLeod also highlights the response from the 200 designers to make the creations.
The traveling exhibition will end in December 2022 with an auction of all the pieces organized by Sotheby’s and whose proceeds will be used to finance a scholarship program for access to artistic studies for young talents.
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