from march 15, 2008 to july 21, 2008
Fortuny Museum

Including clothes, accessories and trompe-l’oeil creations, the eighty-plus pieces in this show are all made of paper.

Demonstrating the extraordinary skill and unmistakable talent of the Belgian artist Isabelle de Borchgrave, the exhibition also offers an unusual account of the world of Mariano Fortuny, with the evocative works organised within his palazzo-museum to illustrate significant figures and episodes in his life.

Conjuring up the climate within which Fortuny lived and worked, this ‘exhibition-installation’ reflects all the various facets of the talent of a contemporary artist who is also a designer, and director. It reveals the different ways in which she has been inspired by Mariano Fortuny’s intellectual heritage and by the museum which perpetuates it.