...and art is the sum of the parts.
Artists Jean Marie and Marthe Simonett are well known if France for their monumental sculptural works, but they have also mastered the art of creating wonderful 3-dimensional pieces on a more intimate scale. Their first New York exhibition focuses on a series of puzzle tables (images above & below)- in the words of curator Renaud Vuaillat, "Conceived for life together, to meet together, to connect, to prolong and combine each other infinitely." - originally created in 1969 for the apartment of prominent French ad-man Jacques Seguela.
Their first New York exhibition focuses on a series of puzzle tables (images above)- in the words of curator Renaud Vuaillat "Conceived for life together, to meet together, to connect, to prolong and combine each other infinitely." - originally created in 1969 for the apartment of prominent French ad-man Jacques Seguela.
Vuaillat, who after fifteen years in Paris as an established furniture dealer opened his New York flagship gallery, Twenty First/Twenty First, in Chelsea., continues:
"The Simonnets create formal alphabets - that is to say, series of modules that are made to be linked, assembled, that have parental links because they are constituted of families of forms...This approach to form, this language, is linked to the technical mode of production, and reproduction: the polyester casting. Unlike other materials like stone or wood, polyester only takes on what is given to it: form, color, matter."
"Chairs" - 1998, all images courtesy Twenty First/Twenty First Gallery
See them at the opening reception on Thursday April 8th from 6-8, or during gallery hours April 9th - May 29th on the 3rd floor at 551 West 21st - website http://www.21st21st.com/
