TOP INTERNATIONAL Renowned Contributors
Shalini Passi - India
Liliya Tippetts - Monaco
Estelle Arielle Bouchet - France
Adriano Davoli - Italy
Shalini Passi, founder, Shalini Passi Art Foundation & MASH is a Delhi based artist and Arts Patron, who sits on the Advisory Board of KHOJ (the not-forprofit contemporary arts organisation based in Delhi), is a Patron of FICA (Foundation of Indian Contemporary Art), and is also an important Patron of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale. Having been actively involved in designing her home, Shalini has amassed a formidable collection of the most coveted names of Indian contemporary art, including Bharti Kher, Anita Dube, Sheba Chhachhi, Zarina Hashmi, Subodh Gupta, Atul Dodiya, and Riyas Komu, alongside significant international artists such as Jeff Koons and Damien Hirst. Shalini’s passion for art and design is evident in her vast collection of furniture, tapestries, and rare antiques, which are juxtaposed with cutting-edge contemporary design, including important pieces by Ron Arad, Vladimir Kagan, and Herve Van Der Straeten. Located within Shalini’s Delhi home, (as featured in renowned international publications),, the collection evokes and celebrates a powerful individual narrative that speaks of Shalini’s connection with each piece, each history, and each artist. As a patron and collector, Shalini actively supports emerging artists, and fosters arts education through the Foundation’s year-round programming. She is regularly invited to speak prominent art and design events, like India Art Fair and she has recently moderated a panel discussion at India Design ID 2019.
Monaco based entrepreneur earned her BA in International Finance and Accounting and MA in International Business Management. Liliya splits her time between Monte-Carlo and London where she worked for six years at a London family office, managing various investment projects before setting up her own company ArteLia (Monaco | London), which provides clients with art advisory, media communication for brands and business advisory. Liliya established ArteLia Gallery (London and Monaco) in 2008, focusing primarily on Eastern European nonconformist art, but after graduating with Diploma in Modern and Contemporary Art and Art Business at Christie’s Education in London, she expanded her art advisory into modern, post-war, and contemporary art. In 2018, Liliya was appointed as the CEO of Luxury International Magazine for Monaco and Cote d’Azur regions. In 2020, Liliya shifted her expertise to expand ArteLia Consultancy into a fully independent operation: • Art Advisory offers private consul-tation for collectors of modern, post-war, or contemporary art. • Media Services: brand enhancement through • Capital Raising Business Advisory for investment funds and individual projects • Premium Property Investments in Monaco, Cote d'Azur, premium European ski resorts • Luxury Lifestyle Management Services for individual clients
Estelle is an international journalist specialized in Art, Costume and Fashion, thus she collaborates with editorial groups as Conde Nast supervising the entire reportage, photos, style and text: Vogue, AD, GQ, World of Interiors. Besides Moralmoda Magazine, she contributes to www.theluxurychronicle.com, and was in charge of Fashion for L'Orient le Jour, wrote for Qatar Airways magazine Oryx, Marie-Claire Italia. Based in Provence, she has been responsible of the Press department of Fondation Calvet in Avignon which gathers the most important museums of Avignon and Cavaillon. She recently created the Association "Méditerranée en Lumière" whose mission is to protect the Peoples, Cultures and the Sea of the Mare Nostrum. Méditerranée en Lumière is also a publishing House. Secret Egypt art book will be launched end of October 2020. She is also the author of two Carnets de Voyage at Flammarion “Mes Carnets d’Egypte et “Mes Carnets d’Italie”. Estelle is asked for consulting as writer and art director for brands as Montblanc, Van Cleef & Arpels, wine Chateauneuf du Pape, Region Provence Alpes Côte d'Azur, Group Hotels Tournier Courchevel, Hermès Cuirs Précieux, Acqua di Parma, Ministère de la Culture & de la Communication. She owns the press office EAB Press & Image and manages international press campaign, branding and identity, monitoring budgets, international management, press strategist. She recently worked for KLEIN KAROO INTERNATIONAL (the South African partner of HERMES) as Art Director.
Adriano is an Italian freelance author, a jewelry historian and a collector, a refined connoisseur of magnificent jewels and unique gemstones. A GIA graduate in gemology, Adriano regularly writes as Jewelry Expert and Consultant for printed editions of Moralmoda Magazine since 2019, with several editorials already dedicated to some of the most important jewelry Maisons, such as Bulgari, Mellerio, Piaget and Van Cleef & Arpels. He is the author of the chapter Icons dedicated to the most famous and celebrated clients of Van Cleef & Arpels, for the official catalogue "The Art & Science of Gems" (Xavier Barral Editions, 259 pages, Paris, 2016). The exquisite publication was published on the occasion of the important retrospective with more than 400 pieces of the Maison, held in Singapore at the Art & Science Museum in 2016. From 2010 until 2017 he was the contributor specializing in High Jewelry for the Haute Couture issue of the fashion magazine Collezioni. He has also contributed to the section Magnificent Inspirations, part of the elegant catalogue 'Precious Art Deco Objects', featuring the superb collection of Prince and Princess Sadruddin Aga Khan, exhibited in 2018 at the School of Jewelry Arts in Paris, with the support of Van Cleef & Arpels. Adriano's great passions also include Contemporary Art, Rare Books, Oriental Arts, Travelling and any form of artistic disciplines that involve and express beauty.
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By Estelle Arielle Bouchet
It is in Monte Carlo, at the Monte Carlo Bay’s sumptuous terrace facing the Mediterra-nean Sea, that I meet my friend, Prince Michel of Yugoslavia. The one soberly nicknamed “Prince Michel” always has the aristocratic politeness of punctuality. Our interview is at 9 o’clock am, at the Blue Bay restaurant above the Mediterranean sea among the luxuriance of scented tropical gardens which micro subtropical climate benefits the Principality. As the morning light already becomes ardent, this very light, so dear to the Prince-Photographer on which we’ll talk later on… It is at Blue Bay that officiates the charismatic “Chef étoilé“ at Michelin, Marcel Ravin, native of French West Indies. Marcel Ravin, every morning from the hotel garden, collects here his fresh supply of fruits, vegetables and herbs for the refined and quite different cooking transferred through the ancestral knowledge of his grandmother (see below). As to Prince Michel of Yugoslavia, he was born on June 18 th, 1958, under the Gemini sign, a twin brother himself from Prince Dimitri of Yugoslavia. So it is under the auspices of Mercury that the young prince was born, bestowing on him the gift of sharing and communication which he expresses throughout his photographical art. Prince Michel is descended from two European crowns, he is indeed through his mother, Maria Pia de Savoie, the grandson of the last Italian king, Umberto II and of his bride, Queen Marie Josee de Belgique. Through his father, Prince Alexandre de Yougoslavie, he is descended from different Yugoslavian, Greek, Danish, British and Russian kingdoms. Apart from this impressive genealogy, Prince Michel is before anything an esthete and an artist. Photography is his mode of expression and this way he joins the Monaco
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Breakfast at Blue Bay Monte Carlo Bay Hotel with Prince Michel of Yugoslavia
tradition of photography with figures such as Helmut Newton and Karl Lagerfeld, who took to heart to interpret this microcosm of the Principality according to their own prisms. The great Karl loved the Beach Club overlooked by his mirador Villa and used to set up portrays of great figures of the Principality. At the instigation of Princess Caroline de Hanovre, Prince too yielded to the asceticism of the Ballets of Monte Carlo. Quite a challenge for someone who had never captured the skills of dancers before. Monaco also welcomes photo exhibitions, and in this way the Buddhist monk Mathieu Ricard did show there in 2017, and before him other photographers such as David Bailey, considered like the father of portrays, once married to Catherine Deneuve from 1965 to 1967. As to Michel, his work
comes within the scope of a very structured interpretation, quite often an architectural one, which love of symmetry belongs to the long French classical tradition. Michel was in fact raised in Versailles and his mother used to take her children to the palace gardens of their ancestor, King Louis XIV. Thus it is how the young Prince Michel shaped his taste and you can find in this work the symmetrical and classical sequencing peculiar to the time of the Sun King. Sometimes his work internalizes towards a more intimate dimension in harmony with Nature, or ventures to the Art of Portray that he recently initiated. Thus, during confinement Prince Michel trained himself to wake up at four in the morning to capture the first sunrises above the Principality… He loves the delicate and powerful dawns as they only exist on the Mediterranean shores. This “ Seeker of Light “ likes those strolls and lets himself be carried by the emotion of a Mediterranean landscape. “When I take a photo, I feel first an emotion, I gaze at it and this makes a photo.” Michel offers his vision of a Mediterranean in Light for our greatest delight. Friend of the sovereign Prince Albert II de Monaco, just as his father Prince Alexandre de Yougoslavie was friend of Prince Rainier, Prince Michel keeps a real emotional relationship with the Principality where he lives from now on.
“When I take a photo, I feel first an emotion, I gaze at it and this makes a photo.” Prince Michel of Yugoslavia
Prince Michel admires the action of the Sovereign Prince Albert II, in support of the Oceans and the Bio Diversity that Prince Albert upholds in the Principality throughout well thought-out agriculture and targeted excellent actions for protection of Nature and its ecosystems. “I love being by the seaside, with this exceptional luminosity and vegetation, this proximity of the Alps, the Alpilles, from the Italy on the East and France on the West.” l offers his vision of a Mediterranean in Light for our greatest delight. Image top left page: Monte Carlo Bay Hotel courtesy. Image left below courtesy of Prince Michel of Yugoslavia.....
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Image left page and above: courtesy Alessandro Maria Ferreri.
In a symbolical way, the Principality of Monaco creates a ‘go-between’, a tight link between France and Italy from where Prince Michel de Yougoslavie is himself descended. In love with this Mare Nostrum and light, Prince Michel will keep us enchanted through his photos with these
Mediterranean views, its glorious structures, last bastions of a refined and vulnerable world that you can contemplate not without some nostalgic reverence. In the style of these travelers of the “Grand Tour”, Prince Michel offers his vision of a Mediterranean in Light for our greatest delight.
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Full «Immersion» The Oceanographic Museum of Monaco Invites on a Journey with Neptune By Estelle Arielle Bouchet After a delicious breakfast front of the peaceful view of the Mediterranean Sea at Blue Bay in Monte Carlo Bay Hotel with Prince Michel of Yugoslavia, I decide to throw myself into a full “IMMERSION” for a dive into the great barrier reef. What could I do better in a Principality flirting with the Sea everywhere and where its Prince HSH Albert II of Monaco dedicate his life to the preservation of the Oceans through its Foundation Prince Albert II of Monaco? As his ancestor, Prince Albert I, nicknamed “The Prince of the Seas” modern Poséidon explorer, who founded in 1906 the Oceanographic Institute, foundation recognized itself as being of public utility, HSH Prince Albert II, Honorary President of the Oceanographic Institute, contributes to Monaco's international commitment to the Oceanpreservation. Backed by the legendary Rock of Monaco front of the charming restaurant “Les Perles de Monte Carlo” where I will meet up after the visit some good friends for a fish and sea food exquisite lunch with a fruity organic white wine in order to extend the inspiration of such an unique exhibition. Brice Cachia and Frédéric Rouxeville, two biologists, launched their project to refine marine products in 2011, in a region where the oyster-farming tradition is almost non- existent. These exceptional oysters offered are raised in Monaco.
The purpose of such a relevant exhibition consists in showing the importance of the Oceans and the barrier of Corals for life preservation consciousness and our future. As Robert Calcagno, CEO of the Oceanographic Institute, explains, this new interactive installation has propelled us into a whole new format, never before offered at the Oceanographic Museum. The exhibition will last at least one year from now, so it is an excellent opportunity to plan a visit to discover this neptunian universe by yourself or in family, the spectacular installation fitting all ages in search for beauty and emotional experience. A dive into the underwater odyssey animated by a modern Jules Verne explorer‘s Spirit. As Jonas‘s initiatory Journey into the whale, the interactive path offers the opportunity to contemplate amazing fishes, their emotions, their interactions in a mysterious quietness and unusual scenography. Nora Matthey de l’Endroit has assumed brilliantly the delicate mission of the scenography and art direction with the support of the Scientists, offering thus a fantastic way to discover the Australian Sea and its fauna, biggest ecosystem of the world, in the North East of Australia. With its 2300 km in length and 348 000 km2 in area, the Great Barrier Reef is
“Because of their vulnerability to acidification, because their importance in our global ecosystems (…) corals should today more than ever, be at the heart of our strategies.“ HSH Prince Albert II of Monaco the largest construction of animal origin of the planet. At the origin of this feat, small animals who happen to be great engineers: reef-building corals. They secrete a calcareous skeleton, making them the principal creators of these underwater constructions. Commonly called “hard corals”, there are currently about 1600 species. Since 1981, the great Barrier Reef has been classified at a UNESCO World Heritage Site, joined in 2008 by the New Caledonia double barrier reef.
Image left: HSH Albert II of Monaco, Honorary President of the Oceanographic Institute, during the exhibition, Immersion, 2020. Above: coral reef fauna image of group of ocellaris clownfish.
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The Roman Civilization projected towards the sea has always attributed a relevant importance to Coral. The young “putto” angel was represented with a branch of coral collar as a talisman and emblematic link to the Sea, symbol of Life as the Botticellian Venus coming to life from a shell embarcation on the Sea… Above the art visual language and the symbol of coral in its representation, the Scientists have layed the emphasis on the coral vulnerability and the necessity to preserve this barrier environment for the future of our Planet Earth. Beside the exhibition, the visit of the Oceanographic Museum is a mere enchantment with its solemn classical architecture, its Cabinet de Curiosités, without losing yourself, admiring the view of the sea, you could be captivated by the charm of the song of the sirens… Image above: HSH Albert II of Monaco, Honorary President of the Oceanographic Institute, during the exhibition, Immersion, 2020. Below: coral reef fauna images of fish and visitors during the Immersion.
Practical information Opening dates & times of the Oceanographic Museum IMMERSION Open every day (except the Formula Grand Prix weekend and December 25th ) From 10 am To 7pm: April, May, June, September From 9.30 am to 8pm: July, August From 10am to 6pm: January, February, March, October, November, December Adult (from 18 years old) 16 euros Student (valid card) 10 EUROS Child (4 to 17 years old inclusive) 10 euros People with disabilities 7euros Address Oceanographic Museum of Monaco Avenue Saint Martin MC 98000 Monaco +377 93 15 36 00 Restaurant “ Les Perles de Monte Carlo » Sea Food restaurant (Front of the Museum) Port de Fontvielle Quai Jean-Charles Rey 98000 Monaco +377 97 77 84 31 www.perlesdemonaco.com
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This desire to push back the limits of what is possible, and also to offer to the greatest number of people an underwater world that is as majestic as it is threatened, is the legacy of Prince Albert I, nicknamed the «Prince of the Seas» and founder of the Oceanographic Institute, Albert I, Prince of Monaco Foundation.
By Estelle Arielle Bouchet
Robert Calcagno, CEO of the Oceanographic Museum, Monaco.
Estelle Arielle Bouchet: In which sense the exhibition "Immersion" aims to sensitize the public to the fragile ecosystem of the Oceans ? Robert Calcagno: Since July 18, the Oceanographic Museum of Monaco has welcomed a very special guest : the Great Barrier Reef. One of the seven natural wonders of the world, is revealed in the IMMERSION exhibition. A multimedia installation which offers visitors the opportunity to experience a dive to meet the iconic species that inhabit the largest coral ecosystem on the planet. IMMERSION is not just an exhibition ; it is a real immersive, interactive and collective experience, designed to raiseawareness for the need to preserve our blue planet and its incredible biodiversity. While they cover only 0.2% of the oceans, coral reefs are home to 30% of marine biodiversity. These oases of life, essential to humankind in many ways, are nevertheless threatened on a massive scale. The Oceanographic Museum invites as many people as possible to be privileged witnesses of the beauty and fragility ofthese ecosystems, on an original journey between fiction, emotion and reality. This innovative concept was conceived by the Oceanographic Museum in order to offer an experience that combines the spectacular and
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the engaging, with an enhanced level of interaction and a unique sense of immersion. To give life to this underwater odyssey, the most advanced technologies are used to further the Museum’s mission of mediation: to create a link between humankind and an ecosystem that is generally inaccessible to it. This desire to push back the limits of what is possible, and also to offer to the greatest number of people an underwater world that is as majestic as it is threatened, is the legacy of Prince Albert I, nicknamed the «Prince of the Seas» and founder of the Oceanographic Institute, Albert I, Prince of Monaco Foundation.
Estelle Arielle Bouchet : Does such a productionwith around 2 millions euros investment- illustrate the Oceanographic Museum of Monaco vocation and will to firmly engage the Principality on the defense of the Oceans and the Environment ? Robert Calcagno: The Principality has been committed to protecting the environment for decades. Monaco and different major institutions involved in the understanding and protection of the oceans (Oceanographic Institute, Scientific Centre of Monaco, Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation, Monaco Explorations) have joined forces to raise public
awareness and take action to ensure the survival of coral reefs. High-level scientific research, organisation of conferences, political influence, media outreach, funding of NGO projects… The future of coral reefs depends on a combination of different forms and scales of action, and the Monaco Team is working on all fronts. Moreover, Monaco supported the preparation by the IPCC of the Special report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate, approved in September 2019. This scientific consensus has been compiled by hundreds of international scientists and validated by States. It establishes the alarming diagnosis of the shock imposed on the ocean by global warming, and serves as a reference on which international mobilisation must be based. Since mid-2018, Monaco has been co-chairing the International Coral Reef Initiative,an informal partnership between States and organisations aimed at preserving coral reefs and related ecosystems (mangroves and seagrass beds) around the world. This co-presidency is shared with Australia and Indonesia. In 2017, Monaco had already initiated the Coral Reef Life Declaration, to alert the international community to the importance and the urgent need to protect coral reefs.
Image left page and above: courtesy Alessandro Maria Ferreri.
Interview with Robert Calcagno, the CEO of the Oceanographic Museum, Monaco