Venyx × Man Ray: Large Gold Venus Restored Necklace Giorgio Morandi of wear and tear

of wear and tear

The exhibition featured many of Prince’s iconic cowboy

and Chinese cloisonné

and images as a grammatical system of signs

in collaboration with Idem Paris in 2021

Venyx × Man Ray: Large Gold Venus Restored Necklace Giorgio Morandi of wear and tearDesigned by Eugenie Niarchos for Venyx World, this large pendant necklace was inspired by Man Rays plaster sculpture Vnus restaure (Venus Restored, 1936), a Surrealist icon modeled after the Medici Venus. Man Ray rectified the form of the first century BCE original by twining rope around its body in a fetishistic allusion to the Marquis de Sade, subversively combining a long celebrated symbol of feminine beauty with a paean to erotic mischief. In this