Bronze Sculpture for Sale
Fauteuil Molécul’air Silver, 2020
Design : plastic, object · 60 x 150 x 112 cm 23.6 x 59.1 x 44.1 inch
€800
800 €
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About the artwork
Type
Design : numbered and limited to 600 copies
2 copies available
Condition
Artwork sold in perfect condition
Authenticity
Sold with certificate of Authenticity from the gallery
Invoice from the gallery
Signature
Artwork signed in the mold
Technique & Support
plastic, object
Dimensions ( cm • inch )
60 x 150 x 112 cm 23.6 x 59.1 x 44.1 inch Height x Width x Depth
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Description
“Bernard Quentin what have you just done? Well, I simply inflated a balloon to give it life. It is a simple envelope that takes shape and evolves. (Interview with Bernard Quentin, INA, 1968)
Bernard Quentin's research on pneumatic structures led him to become the first designer in the early 1960s to design fully inflatable seats without structures. In this line, he began to develop from 1966 the principle of "Molecul'Air", inflatable structures made up of the agglomeration of spheres in the manner of a grouping of atoms, capable of being transformed into furniture than at home. His Molécul’air Armchair, a hybrid piece between sculpture and furniture, expresses perhaps better than any other work the poetry, magic and futurism of Bernard Quentin’s work. Work imagined in 1966, its technical complexity did not allow it to be published before today.
Exposure :
2021, AERODREAM, Center Pompidou-Metz, France
2020, The Siege Revolts, Saint Quentin Museum, Yvelines, France
“ART FOR ALL” edition by Galerie Loft,
1966 – Ed. 2020
inflatable furniture
Colored PVC – Colors transparent, white, orange, gold or silver.
H.60 x W.150 x D.112 cm
H. of the seat: 40 cm
Titled, signed, dated and numbered at 600 copies. in back
Dimensions of the box: H.23 x W.48 x D.27.5 cm
Electric inflator included (230V, Type C)
Bernard Quentin's research on pneumatic structures led him to become the first designer in the early 1960s to design fully inflatable seats without structures. In this line, he began to develop from 1966 the principle of "Molecul'Air", inflatable structures made up of the agglomeration of spheres in the manner of a grouping of atoms, capable of being transformed into furniture than at home. His Molécul’air Armchair, a hybrid piece between sculpture and furniture, expresses perhaps better than any other work the poetry, magic and futurism of Bernard Quentin’s work. Work imagined in 1966, its technical complexity did not allow it to be published before today.
Exposure :
2021, AERODREAM, Center Pompidou-Metz, France
2020, The Siege Revolts, Saint Quentin Museum, Yvelines, France
“ART FOR ALL” edition by Galerie Loft,
1966 – Ed. 2020
inflatable furniture
Colored PVC – Colors transparent, white, orange, gold or silver.
H.60 x W.150 x D.112 cm
H. of the seat: 40 cm
Titled, signed, dated and numbered at 600 copies. in back
Dimensions of the box: H.23 x W.48 x D.27.5 cm
Electric inflator included (230V, Type C)
Presentation
Starting in 1945, Bernard Quentin established a unique connection between writing and visual art and his work is an illustration of this connection.
Dali recognized his originality and described him as a pioneer of cybernetic art and electronic writing. Monumental automatic inscriptions of architectural proportions inspire his practice. All forms of writing can be found in his work: hieroglyphs, pictograms, inscriptions, and graffiti.
Everything that is connected to writing interests and attracts him, and his totem-writings witness the accomplishments of his original practice.
He is also famous, starting in the '60s, when he takes distance from painting, for his environmental interventions and the inflatable structures he produces in cities like New York or Paris. His artworks are situated along the roads or float in the air. He is a landscape architect, a designer and he deciphers the codes of his time and of the cultural environment in which he lives.
Bernard Quentin was a part of the movement against art as a commodity and dedicated his practice to the environment for a while. In 1976, he went back to monumental scriptura1 and the “street poems" and “pbject poems" take an essential place in his practice. In 1977 he produced, with a dozen of artists like Soto, Restany or Messagier, the '1'Art' project. In March 2007, the Musée de la Poste dedicated him a retrospective, an exhibition that retraced his whole artistic career.
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