Meret Oppenheim
Museo di Palazzo Bianco
All periods from Meret Oppenheim’s career were represented here—paintings, sculptures, and compositions of objects spanning the period from the ’30s to the present were arranged in a mix that didn’t so much follow a chronological order as emphasize the characteristics of the works. In fact, Oppenheim’s body of work does not appear divided into recognizable periods; rather, there is a single period, faceted like a gem. Youth and maturity do not seem to follow progressively, but coexist like the right and left hands of a single body. At any moment they can fold around each other, becoming