Nathalie Du Pasquier creates brightly colored brick sculptures for Mutina

Artist and designer Nathalie Du Pasquier has translated her fascination with bricks right into a site-specific exhibition comprising seven totem-like sculptures constructed from stacked bricks glazed in vivid colors.

Du Pasquier created the Bric set up for Italian ceramics model Mutina, which operates the MUT exhibition house at its headquarters in Fiorano.

The exhibition, which was curated by Sarah Cosulich, options seven sculptural buildings that rise from the sand-covered flooring of the constructing designed by Angelo Mangiarotti within the 1970s.

The start line for every sculpture was the common-or-garden brick, which has been a recurring component in Du Pasquier’s work – significantly her work.

“I do know nothing about bricks,” she stated in an interview with Cosulich for the exhibition’s catalogue. “For me they’re unusual, nameless objects I’ve inserted generally within the nonetheless lifes I paint.”

Du Pasquier has targeted on portray for the reason that 1980s, along with her summary works typically together with shapes that reference home objects.

Previous to this, the self-taught designer was a founding member of the influential Memphis Group alongside Ettore Sottsass.

She was answerable for a lot of its adorned surfaces, together with textiles, carpets and plastic laminates, in addition to creating merchandise and furnishings.

A current revival of curiosity in Memphis designs has seen Du Pasquier develop a clothes assortment that includes her graphic prints for American Attire, in addition to a spread of textile designs with Flawed for Hay.

A London exhibition held in 2017 additionally introduced new work, sculpture and drawings created by Du Pasquier utilizing her signature daring, geometric kinds.

For the BRIC exhibition, Du Pasquier explored the brick as the fundamental component of structure and used it to create monumental buildings that sit someplace between artwork and design.

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“I’ve constructed totally different three-dimensional issues [in the past],” the designer defined.

“The brand new facet of this expertise is the virtually architectural scale, and the truth that the bricks, being modular, nearly lose their three-dimensional high quality, and return to being components that kind a floor.”

Several types of brick are glazed in vivid colors and layered to provide geometric shapes which are harking back to Du Pasquier’s work, in addition to among the Memphis Group’s sculptural furnishings.

In a number of of the sculptures, the bricks are turned to show their interior construction. On this approach their structural worth is compromised however they tackle a extra ornamental high quality as patterned items.

“Bric is sort of design or nearly structure, although it has no helpful goal,” the designer added. “It has nothing to do with a portray, which I can alter all the way down to the final second.”

“Bric is a collaboration with the Mutina group, the wonderful engineers and masons with out whom these small constructions would have remained merely concepts. I had an thought and different individuals made it. A portray shouldn’t be an thought.”

The exhibition was produced by Mutina as a part of its Mutina for Artwork challenge. The theme connects with the corporate’s heritage because it explores the thought of the brick as a product that’s constructed from the earth in an identical strategy to conventional ceramics.

Mutina’s major focus is on creating revolutionary ceramics merchandise in collaboration with among the world’s main designers.

Its earlier initiatives embody textured tiles by Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec that may be mixed to create totally different patterns, and a set by Konstantin Grcic that includes contrasting matte and gloss surfaces.