Overview
- Titled “The House on Utopia Parkway,” the installation runs at Gagosian Paris from December 16, 2025 to March 14, 2026.
- Curated by Jasper Sharp, the project transforms the storefront at 9 rue de Castiglione into a staged tableau that visitors view from the street.
- Key shadow boxes slated for display include Pharmacy (1943), Untitled (Pinturicchio Boy) (ca. 1950), and A Dressing Room for Gille (1939), with additional assemblages and ephemera.
- Scale reports vary, with Artsy citing over 300 items from Cornell’s collection while The Art Newspaper describes around a dozen signature boxes shown with hundreds to thousands of found objects.
- Preparation includes reproducing Cornell’s handwriting and aging materials with Anderson’s film collaborators, test-building the set in a warehouse outside Paris, and securing loans that include works from the Joseph Cornell Study Center at the Smithsonian.