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This November, Le Victor Palace in Monte Carlo becomes the setting for Translations, a new exhibition curated by Clemente Tivioli, creative director and entrepreneur for TIVIOLI and gallery Nilufar's founder, Nina Yashar. On view from November 6 — 30, 2025, the exhibition marks the pair's second collaboration following their debut in Gstaad, and continues their exploration of how art, design and craft can merge into a single, immersive language of expression.
Translations unfolds as a journey through shifting atmospheres, story by story: each room a self-contained world where materials, gestures and histories converse. Rather than following a curatorial hierarchy, the curators let intuition and emotion guide the sequence, allowing visitors to move through a continuum of light, texture and form.
"By opening the doors to a world apart—where aesthetics is not merely an element but an all-encompassing essence, embodied and reinterpreted through every artistic medium—one enters the dreamlike realm created by the visionary duo known for their 'pièce unique'. Each mise-en-scène is conceived by two minds guided by intuition—daring to follow vision over rule, save for one: that of enchantment. Above all, their own. And that is not a detail—it is everything," shares Nilufar in the press release.
A white-and-blue room opens the show with a meditation on air and water: French artist Fernand Léger's 1950 Patience (Les Illuminations de Rimbaud) and Lucio Fontana's Concetto Spaziale (1962–63) find resonance with Italian artist Agostino Bonalumi's Blu (1986), surrounded by Objects of Common Interest's shimmering resin works from their Poikilos collection (2023) and Filippo Carandini's celestial Muse series.
Additionally, Augustas Serapinas' reflective installation interacts with industrial designer Maximilian Marchesani's sculptural lighting designs and Diego Cibelli's ornate porcelain figures—balancing baroque intricacy and futuristic rhythm. Their dialogue extends to French designer Etienne Marc's floral-inflected furniture designs and Andrea Mancuso's Sgraffito tables, whose engraved Carrara marble surfaces transform drawing into topography.
Vintage design finds expression through Italian designer and sculptor Gabriella Crespi's Rana lamp and Dormeuse Toi et Moi, set against conceptual artist Alighiero Boetti's playful 1989 text work and Lola Montes's vibrant ceramics. In another room, Russian artist blown-glass Lovers (1954) joins Roberto Sironi and Palmalisa Zantedeschi's megalith-inspired Aphanès series, while Christian Pellizzari's Turtle Giant Syracus lamp design casts light over Brazilian sculptor José Zanine Caldas' monolithic armchairs.
Moments of provocation and levity arise with Pablo Picasso's Centaur Head (1962), produced by Fucina degli Angeli, furniture designer Martino Gamper's reimagined PostForma Ico chairs and lastly, Arthur Duff's neon sculptural art that suspends light mid-air. The art and design exhibition concludes on the terrace with minimalist marble furniture by Sette7 and pieces from Derek Castiglioni's Roma collection, where geometry and a sense of serenity peek through.
In Translations, Tivioli extends his family's tradition of Italian craftsmanship into a sensorial universe, while Yashar continues Nilufar's pursuit of cross-disciplinary dialogue. As Nilufar relays, "In essence, those who step into Boulevard des Moulins may leave with a chair, a shearling coat in an unimaginable hue, a burnt wood piece, or a ceramic fairy tale—and it will make no difference. They will have grasped the same thing: a thrill. The mechanism is always the same—you make an emotion your own. That is the true luxury: not one found everywhere, but that of those who pluck a rare flower from a magical meadow, one that no one else will ever have."
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