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Pierre Charpin
February 25 - April 22, 2006

One of the characteristics of my work is the series. This is more obvious in the very specific context of a project for the gallery where I am more interested in designing a series of objects than an object in a series. This does not involve the search for the ideal design (the only one possible), but on the contrary an exploration, a search for possible content in an intuition, an idea, a principle, a drawing…What makes a series is the materialisation of this collection of possibilities, to draw a pathway between the different possibilities, and so doing, to highlight the principle of research, before the object itself...
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Born in 1962 in Saint-Mandé, Pierre Charpin is a visual artist and designer. He graduated from the National School of Fine Arts in Bourges in 1984 and began his career as a visual artist. By the early 1990s, Charpin shifted his focus to designing objects and furniture, embarking on a prolific career in design. His work includes research collaborations with institutions such as CIRVA (1998–2001) and CRAFT (2003–2005), alongside partnerships with esteemed brands like Alessi, Cristallerie Saint-Louis, Design Gallery Milano, Ligne Roset, the Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres, Pamar, Post Design, Tectona, Venini, and the Wrong Shop...
