XAVIER LUST

Xavier Lust’s creations inspire harmony, elegance and strength to their surroundings. Throughout his career the Belgian designer has created a unique poetic language inspired by nature and materiality itself. Due to his excellent understanding of materials, Xavier has devised an innovative process of curving metal allowing his design to be inhabited by a unique energy. Each piece is a rare gem exhibiting the radical vision of the designer assisted by the expertise of the best manufacturers. Xavier Lust started his design career working for leading Italian brands before expanding his practice to limited edition Art design piece.
Xavier is a regularly invited guest lecturer at leading art and design institutions around the world. His recognizable and awarded works are included in the permanent collections of many prestigious institutions such as the Centre Pompidou in Paris.

 

Museum collection (selection)
Musée national d’art moderne – Centre Pompidou, Paris
ADAM Design Museum
Design Museum Gent
Modern Design at Musée des Beaux Arts de Montréal
CID Grand Hornu
Musée Des Arts Décoratifs, Paris
Stedelijk Museum CS in Amsterdam
Tate Modern, London
Musée d’Art Japonais, Brussels
SFMOMA, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

JEAN-MARIE BYTEBIER

Jean-Marie Bytebier (1963) studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent (Belgium). He lives and works in Ghent. His painting is part of the tradition of great landscape artists, particularly Flemish, but also Italian and British. Bytebier embraces the historical legacy of this essential subject in Western art, while offering a deeply contemporary perspective: through his compositions, formats, and textures, which immerse the viewer in a space that is both familiar and mysterious, airy and floating. The large recurring white bands in his paintings emphasise the role of the painting as a “window”, although here it does not open onto a perspective, but rather onto an inner, intimate, and spiritual emotion.

Jean-Marie Bytebier has exhibited, among other places, at the Abbey of Fontevraud, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Antwerp, the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Brussels, the Grand Hornu, and the Ixelles Museum.

Denis Laget

 

Denis Laget was born in 1958 in Valence. He was a laureate of the Villa Médicis (1989/1990).
He lives and works in Paris.

“Portraits, vanities, still lifes, landscapes … Denis Laget maintains his painting in the classical subjects of art history. If we try to list more finely the series that punctuate his work for about thirty-five years, we find: portraits, lemons, skulls, herrings, meat quarters, sheep’s heads, jellyfish, landscapes, flowers, dogs, birds, fig leaves… It is a collection at the same time banal and strange, a kind of cabinet of curiosities, where nothing extraordinary or spectacular imposes itself. Does this mean that all these subjects are random, pure pretexts to paint, images-supports without meaning and without stake in itself?”

Karim Ghaddab
“Do not delete” / “Ne pas effacer”, in Denis Laget
FRAC Auvergne, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes, Musée Estrine, 2019.

Hao Shiming

Hao Shiming is one of the main representatives of the “New Ink” movement, which advocates a contemporary interpretation of the millennial tradition of Chinese calligraphy. Shiming works with ink on silk, on paper, on stone. While some abstract works could make one think of “street art” aesthetics, others – more figurative – evoke landscapes or traditional Chinese objects, in the great tradition of scholars. These men who have built Chinese culture over the centuries and have long ruled the Empire. Shiming’s work is nourished by great Chinese authors and thinkers.

Born in 1977 in Heze, Shandong Province, Hao Shiming graduated from the Chinese Painting Department of the Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts, and holds a Masters degree from Peking University. He currently teaches at the Hubei Academy and divides his time between Wuhan and Beijing. His work weaves a new Chinese identity by combining tradition with modernity. His works have been exhibited at the National Museum of China, the Shanghai Museum, the Today Art Museum, the Wuhan Museum, the Sydney College of Art or the Royal College of Art, London, among others.

Herta Müller

Herta Müller lives and works between Berlin and northern Italy, whose landscapes are essential to his inspiration. The oils on canvases with powerful colors retranscribe the sophisticated sensations in very free abstract compositions.The drawings are punctuated with delicate lines and a light palette evoke the subtle life of the world. Herta Müller develops in her drawings and paintings a vibrant light in which color plays a role just as important as the line.

Her abstrat universe resonates in the viewer a chord and brings back to the surface the diffuse imprint of his own experience of nature. She creates an imaginary nature, a mysterious landscape, she observes and grasps the poetic sensations of the world she passes through and remembers.

Philippe Borderieux

 

Through the use of different mediums – painting, drawing and ceramics – which he considers complementary, Borderieux recreates the atmosphere of the garden, in a burst of freshness and fecundity. In a closed and reassuring space, he expresses, through strikethroughs and coverings, the abundance of nature and its constant renewal. He thus reveals buried memories of the banks of the Loire, the place of his childhood, this wild, central river that irrigates his imagination as well as places like Beaugency and Saint-Amand. A vast landscape made of clay and sand, of an intense light: that of the fusion of the elements. Thus a whole set of emotions and reveries develops, which is revealed by his sculptures as so many nuggets discovered near ponds, in pits filled with heather and broom, captive in roots, buried in the dark peat of the marshes.

Nature is thus at the heart of Borderieux’s work, offering him a wide “repertoire of signs that form the basis of a universal and elementary system of forms and colours”, as Jean-François Mozziconacci (former curator of the Petit Palais – Musée des Beaux-Arts in Paris) reminds us.