RIVIERA

Flowers, fruit and birds coexist with the typical geometric lines and patterns of Memphis in this wild ensemble of forms known as Riviera, a carpet in pure wool created by the French designer Nathalie Du Pasquier in 1983.

Warm tones of turquoise, yellow and orange bring harmony and balance to these very different elements. The rigid spatial organization of the composition is interrupted and masked by the sinuous impact of the vibrant botanical forms, halfway between exotic flowers and birds, seemingly left free to move around on the surface.

Riviera marks the gradual shift in Du Pasquier’s work from the three-dimensional character of design towards the two-dimensional approach of painting, consolidating her extraordinary ability to create patterns.

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 175, H 250 cm; 30.5 Kg