Ben Brown Fine Arts is thrilled to announce Planète Lalanne, a comprehensive exhibition of the celebrated artistic duo Claude and François-Xavier Lalanne that will take over the historic Palazzo Rota Ivancich in Venice, running concurrently with the 2024 Venice Biennale from April 17 to November 3, 2024. Continuing a decades-long relationship between Ben Brown Fine Arts and Les Lalanne, Planète Lalanne is one of the largest exhibitions – with a selection of over 150 works – by the artists, and the first to take place in Italy.    Curated by Jérôme Neutres, former director at the Réunion de Musées Nationaux-Grand Palais and former president of Musée du Luxembourg, the fantastical sculptures, furniture, and objets d’art are placed throughout the palazzo in intimate dialogue with this unique environment, highlighting their ingenious functionality and surrealist whimsy to imagine an enchanted ‘Palazzo Lalanne’. Journeying throughout the exhibition, viewers immerse themselves into a domestic, yet surreal setting with which to encounter the mythological creatures, fauna, and flora that inhabit the Lalanne world and explore the blurred intersection between decorative and fine arts at which their practice exists. Works throughout Planète Lalanne are thoughtfully placed with the intent Les Lalanne imagined as “works to live with”, – tables and chairs inhabit living rooms, a bed in the bedroom, and the Hippopotame I bathtub in the bathroom. An invitation for visitors to live with the Lalanne artworks, this staging emphasizes the artists’ intention to transcend myopic schemas of decorative versus fine arts.