The NGV’s new exhibition dedicated to the colourful French painter was put together by India Mahdavi, the revered designer shaping our taste in colours. She talks about assembling a once in a lifetime show
The pleasures of Pierre Bonnard are so obvious that some – mainly artists and critics – treat them as something to be resisted, lest we enjoy him a little too much.
“If you spend more time with Bonnard, you discover so much, because there is quite a lot hidden. Where are the cats? Where is the small figure harvesting flowers in the garden? Where’s Marthe?” she says. “There’s so many elements that reward slow looking” – so much so that when London’s Tate Modern held a Bonnard show in 2019, itInside the NGV’s Pierre Bonnard exhibition, designed by India Mahdavi.
About 100 of Bonnard’s paintings have been gathered up from museums and private collections around the world to sit within an exhibition space designed by Mahdavi, whose use of colour in luxury hotels, restaurants and bars around the world edges on both playfulness and sophistication. Where museums can be austere, Mahdavi’s space is a joyous explosion of colour; you may emerge as I did, feeling strangely restored.
Mahdavi loves bold colours that almost shouldn’t work together – or, as she once put it, “when colours swear at each other”. Her love of colour began with Disney movies and the colourful foods packed in her lunchbox when her family moved to the US: “Colours are a form of expression for me – it comes from my inner self. And I think Bonnard sees colours in the same way,” she says.
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