Carpenters Workshop Gallery

NEXTGEN | THE NEW GUARD : PARIS | 2022

Carpenters Workshop Gallery presents in our Paris gallery the second part of our “New Guard” series, an exhibition of newly commissioned works by six exceptional emerging artist-designers, this time all based in Europe.

This group show is intended to offer a glimpse of the new voic- es in contemporary design in Europe by presenting works by Bea Bonafini, Paul Créange, Luke Fuller, Léa Mestres, Marcin Rusak and Sylvain Rieu-Piquet.

Bea Bonafini’s magical sculptures and textiles explore the relation- ship of the work to its space and to its public. While the coloured lamps of Léa Mestres question the process of creation by emanci- pating itself from the established rules. Luke Fuller’s ceramics, with abstract and organic forms, are of a radically different aesthetic, but also question the process of creation, or rather of production, of industrial societies. Finally, the plant-driven works of Marcin Rusak and the sculptures of Paul Créange explore new sources of inspi- rations and forms of creation from elements already overexploited: nature and photography. Each of the artists presented, through a unique and personal practice, explores a new vector of creation.