Paris’ most beautiful matrioshkas (by Leona Rose) at the Grand Mazarin
In Paris, window displays often tell stories of fashion, luxury or decoration. The Grand Mazarin, on the other hand, is all about introspection.
Since February 3, 2025, the 5-star Marais hotel has been transforming its facade into an open-air gallery, exhibiting the powerful and vibrant works of Leona Rose, a self-taught painter with a pop, mystical and colorful universe. This project is part of the La Grande Manufacture cycle, an in-house artistic initiative renewed every quarter.
Leona Rose or the art of revealing the invisible
For this exhibition, Leona Rose has chosen a universal symbol: the matryoshka, the Russian nesting doll. But here, no fixed folklore. Each doll becomes a metaphor for our buried identities, our contradictions, our rebirths.
His gesture? Instinctive, raw, immediate. His technique blends Posca, acrylic and oil. Background? Spiritual, mythological, symbolic. The two-headed serpent invites itself into one of the works, allegorizing the opposing forces to be reconciled: intuition versus reason, past and future, shadow and light. Everything fits together and overlaps, like the layers of a soul under construction.
A project that’s more than just an exhibition
More than a showcase to look at, it’s a gateway to yourself. And Leona Rose invites you to cross it.
She will be hosting a series of intuitive drawing workshops at the hotel, open to the public (booking required). The setting? A confidential salon in the Grand Mazarin. The experience begins with a guided meditation session, to reconnect with one’s center. Then comes the time for exchange, dialogue and, finally, free creation on canvas. Three hours of active disconnection, of pictorial letting go, where each participant explores his or her own visual language, under the artist’s benevolent gaze.
Art as a tool for inner reconnection, in a hushed setting where luxury becomes a pretext for authenticity.
Le Grand Mazarin: a hotel of art and character
This project is in keeping with the DNA of the Grand Mazarin, a 5* hotel imagined as an arty family home, with theatrical decor by Martin Brudnizki. A member of the Maisons Pariente collection, the hotel doesn’t just welcome guests: it provokes, inspires and reveals.
With La Grande Manufacture, each quarter the hotel opens its doors to artists – emerging or established – to create a total aesthetic experience. After her exhibitions at the Slow Galerie and Galerie Joseph, Leona Rose finds here an ideal setting to combine her colorful imagination with Parisian life.
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