Absalon was the name adopted by Israeli artist Eshel Meir upon his arrival in Paris in the late 1980s. His “cellules,” life-sized architectural models made of wood and painted white, were designed as both sculptures and living-pods. Six of these were exhibited at the Musée d’Art Moderne in Paris shortly before Absalon’s untimely death at the age of twenty-nine. His work has been exhibited posthumously in Europe, the United States, and Turkey and is found in the Tate Modern, Daimler Modern, and other public collections.
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In the seventeenth century, members of the Suasso (Suaço, Suasco) family, bankers originally from Spain, lived in Holland and England. Antonio (Isaac) Lopez Suasso resided in The Hague during the…
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