CALIFORNIA

California, the rug created by Nathalie Du Pasquier in 1983, reflects the designer’s creativity: it is a festival of different visual stimuli gathered over the years, presented here in a work that combines past and present, crafts and industry.

A pattern of black patches against light blue becomes the backdrop for red triangles and white squares with black dots, matched with central strips of yellow and red. Placed along the yellow, green, red and black frame, these forms play with the geometry of the rectangular border in a situation of only apparent chaos.

Actually everything has been studied down to the smallest details, giving rise to a unique composition with the typical characteristics of Memphis.

Halfway between an abstract painting and a design object, California returns to the age-old tradition of the tapestry, reinterpreted in an ironic way.

Nathalie Du Pasquier, French artist and designer, was born in Bordeaux in 1957 and has lived and worked in Milan since 1979. In 1981, Du Pasquier, a self-taught designer, became a leading figure in the Memphis movement. Her numerous designs for decorated surfaces such as fabrics, carpets, furniture, and plastic laminates played a key role in creating the unmistakable Memphis style. Despite her success as a designer, from 1987, when Memphis dissolved, painting became her primary activity. Du Pasquier's ongoing research encompasses paintings, sculptures, drawings, models, constructions, carpets, books, and ceramics, constantly exploring the boundaries between representational and nonrepresentational, tangible and intangible, reality and imagination, and two-dimensional and three-dimensional forms.

W 250, H 180 cm; 31 Kg