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Valentine Schlegel: le dors, le travaille [2021]

Paperback
Works between 1959 - 2002.
18.5 x 27.3 cm, 224 pages
Language: French, English
 
Conceived as a "bio-monograph", this catalogue offers a unique insight into the life and work of the French artist, sculptor and ceramist Valentine Schlegel. It features a large iconography, archives, and texts by sculptor and Schlegel specialist Hélène Bertin.

Rather than providing a literal narrative, organic abstraction eschews representation in favour of expressing something more intuitive and visceral. Organic modernism is concerned with interlocking functions such as symmetry, line and curve, forming a sense of elegance. Valentine Schlegel's architectural design and sculptures are characterised by the modernist engagement in forms and materials. The artist’s stylistic inclinations, which focused on artisanal, rough-hewn dimensions, accompany our practice as we return to architecture, sculpture and design in search of visual provocation.

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