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Nathalie Du Pasquier
Photo: Courtesy of Kunsthalle Wien and ICA Philadelphia
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Nathalie was a founding member of Memphis Milano and ever since, she’s been an unstoppable force in shaping design as we know it.
Iconic artist and designer Nathalie Du Pasquier's multifaceted practice effortlessly toes the line between art and architecture. Using an exuberant approach to abstract form, her artistic language reflects an interest in geometry, variations and systems. Taking the complexity of simple structures and making them mesmerising.
She was a founding member of the Memphis group (founded in 1981), Milan’s decade-defining design and architecture collective known for their ‘form follows fun’ ethos. Nathalie designed furniture, textiles, jewellery, carpets and site-specific installations, bringing her unique perspective to a range of design, before turning her hand to her passion: drawing, painting and sculpting.
Initially depicting still-life subjects and landscapes, her evolving practice is an organic yet steady path of interconnected experiences and creations, heading toward pure abstraction. Two and three dimensional objects play with bold shapes and unexpected colour combinations.
Artist CV
In 2024, Nathalie won of the inaugural BNP Paribes Banque Privée Prize from Art Paris in support of the French scene.
Her solo show Nathalie du Pasquier: Arrangements 1993-2023 is at Villa Noailles, Toulon, France, March 9–April 27, 2024.
Her body of work can be seen as one continuous chain of thought, whether textiles for American Apparel, a series of silk scarves for Hermès, ceramics with Bitossi or a collection of tiles for Italian brand Mutina.
Nathalie's extraordinary vision has been seen across solo shows and group exhibitions at Pace Gallery, the Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania, Anton Kern Gallery, Librairie Yvon Lambert, Galerie Greta Meert, and Kerlin Gallery and more.
Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York
Institut d’Art Contemporain, Villeurbanne, France
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Modernism Museum Mount Dora, Mount Dora, Florida
Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences, Sydney
Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
New Orleans Museum of Art, Louisiana
Nouveau Musée National de Monaco
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond
Exhibition view
'paintings of things. paintings as objects' Kunsthal Aarhus 2023
'Other rooms' Camden Art Centre 2018
'Arrangements 1993-2023' villa Noailles 2024
'LE CORBEAU ET LE RENARD' Pace Gallery 2023
'Annee Revolutionnaire' Yvon Lambert 2024
'Big Objects Not Always Silent' Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia 2018
'Campo di Marte' Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome 2021
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