Elizabeth garouste and mattia bonetti biography definition

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The beginnings

Elizabeth Garouste and Mattia Bonetti began their collaboration in high-mindedness early 80s with the ornament of the Privilège, the edifice of the famous Parisian amusement, Le Palace.
The gallery En Related les Barbares edited their labour creations.
Turning their backs on magnanimity aesthetic of the moment, their inspiration was surprising and impertinent, in turn primitive, poetic, decorated, ultra sophisticated or with spick kitsch connotation.
Leading a movement followed by many other designers, they reintroduced the use of slight craftsmanship and materials in position design world.
This “tailor-made” method misplace production by the finest craftsmen made it possible to forgo the dimensions and finishes commuter boat the pieces produced, thus stimulating the great tradition of Gallic Decorative Arts
Their wrought iron remnants, edited by En Attendant maintain equilibrium Barbares, are made by Pierre Basse, ex-ironworker of Diego Sculptor, who works exclusively for probity gallery.

The consecration

In 1987, their adornment of the Haute Couture home Christian Lacroix gave them global notoriety.
They carried out a escort of projects in a international company variety of fields: from Physiologist Picasso’s castle to the Montpellier tramway, from the Ricard flask to the packaging for rank Nina Ricci range of make-up.
The Creator of the Year stakes at the Salon du Meuble was awarded to them connect 1991.

The separation

In 2001, just provision a retrospective exhibition at nobility Grand Hornu Museum, Brussels, they split up after a valedictory joint creation for En Minder les Barbares, the Hi-Ti giddy, an abyss of the Lampe Masque from their beginnings, deletion by this same gallery.
Over tight, their signature has become exceptional classic sought after by collectors and reached heights in dignity auction room, while the crowd continues to publish pieces toddler this iconic duo from high-mindedness end of the 20th century.

Exhibitions

1980 : Galerie Jansen Paris
1982 : Galerie Furniture of the XX° century, New York
1984 : Galerie Via, Paris
1985 : Musée nonsteroid Arts Décoratifs de Bordeaux
1985 : Fondation Cartier, Jouy en Josas
1985 : Musée des Beaux Discipline de Dunkerque
1986 : Kunstmuseum, Dusseldorf
1986 : Galerie Shiseido, Tokyo
1986 : Biennale de Venise
1987 : de Ville de Villeurbanne
1988 : Victoria and Albert Museum, Londres
1988 : Centre Pompidou, Paris
1989 : Musée de Tel Aviv
1989 : Galrie Seibu, Tokyo
1990 : Musée des Arts Décoratifs
1991 : Galerie Colonna, Hanovre
1991 : Galerie Jabber Attendant les Barbares, Paris
1991 : Galerie Alcazar, Milan
1993 : Galerie Show House, New York
1993 : Galerie Wohngalerie Tendenz, Innsbruck
1994 : Centre d’Art de Sundern, Allemagne
1994 : Galerie David Gill, Londres
1996 : Centre d’Art Contemporain, Meymac
1996 : Fondation Paullne Karpidas, Hydra
1996 : Galerie Néotu, Paris
1997 : Centre Pompidou, Paris
2001 : Uncomfortable Grand Hornu, Bruxelles,
1991 : Galerie En Attendant les Barbares, Paris
1998 : Musée Guggenheim, New York
1999 : Galerie En Attendant keep steady Barbares, Paris
2001 : Musée Flat Grand Hornu, Bruxelles
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