Rashid Rana
The artist from Pakistan is the first contemporary creator exhibiting at the Musée Guimet in Paris.
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Emile Guimet (1836-1918) was a French industrialist, traveller, and connoisseur. He visited Egypt and Greece before traveling around the world in 1876, stopping off in Japan, China and India. In the course of his travels he acquired extensive collections of objects which he put on display in a museum opened in his hometown Lyon in 1879. These collections were subsequently transferred to a new museum which he had built in Paris and which was inaugurated ten years later, in 1889. During Emile Guimet’s own lifetime, the museum, while maintaining a section devoted to the religions of Ancient Egypt, increasingly focused on Asian civilizations.
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The artist from Pakistan is the first contemporary creator exhibiting at the Musée Guimet in Paris.