She worked with the artist Rodolfo Díaz Cervantes and the Mexico City workshop she’s collaborated with for 20 years, Taller Tornel, to develop the 950 textured, undulating concrete panels that line the walls. “It was very intuitive and a clear concept from the beginning,” Escobedo said. Entering viewers go on an excavation-like journey.

The idea to build a minimalist, meditative mineshaft was almost immediate. Installation view, “Cartier Design: A Living Legacy.” Museo Jumex, 2023. Cartier was a big reference to him because he knew all of the different timepieces-the Santos, the Tank, all of them.” The miniatures were always fascinating, in the terms of the scale and the amount of technology that goes into a little box to mark time. We’d visit him on Sunday afternoon, and he’d open these books and explain the mechanisms and tiny pieces. His house was filled with Sotheby’s catalogs.

“When Cartier approached me to do an exhibition, I said yes, because it connects me to my grandfather,” she explained. I saw that jewelry belongs in museums, and that you can read jewelry as historical and aesthetic objects, and it could give you another take on the history of art.”įor Escobedo, the opportunity channeled childhood memories. But really looking and understanding that those objects could be in our main museum, that jewelry could be in our beloved temple of exhibitions-that was important for me. But at that time, I wanted to be a contemporary art curator. “The director was a good friend and brought me to the opening. “I was just starting out in museums,” she recalled.

In fact, a 1999 Cartier Collection exhibition at the Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes changed the course of Mallet’s career.

Both brought an emotional connection and personal history to the Cartier project, and their passion is evident in the result. In Mexico City, Cartier turned to the art and design curator Mallet and the architect Frida Escobedo, who served as scenographer (one of her next projects is revamping a portion of the Met- she will be the first woman to design one of its wings). Design for a bracelet (1934) to be executed in platinum and diamonds by Cartier Paris.

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