Marc Camille Chaimowicz obituary

Artist whose installations combined the melancholic and camp, the romantic and cerebralMarc Camille Chaimowicz’s recent exhibition at Cabinet Gallery in London, which closed five days before the artist died, aged 78, was typical in its arch mix of art, decor and autobiography.The show featured a series of sewing exercises created by the artist’s mother when she worked as a seamstress at the House of Paquin in Paris during the 1940s. The geometric patterns she produced as she practise