Garance Vallée
Meeting with a solar imagination, that of Garance Vallée. The transposition of her terrestrial and archetypal mythology to the wall with Asteré takes us straight to a place where paint and colour pencils are live. Fascination has just become too hard to elude and so be it.
The collection manoeuvres shapes to a surrealist world, trumps our eye with materials and walks a free line between primordial ceramics and modernist patterns. It almost feels like a utopian anthem as it digs the earth and the many strata of civilisations, excavating stairs, arches, vases, troglodyte alcoves. None of them brought up in their literal sense, always on the verge of meta-amphorisms, carving curiosity. Be ready to experience the signature colour palette of the artist and its luminous natural hues: terracotta, powdery cocoa, burnt spices...
When Garance Vallée graduated as an architect in 2017, she had no idea she was less than a year away from becoming a prominent figure in the design world. At Milan Design Week, humanity literally fell in love with her iconoclast and uninhibited world, where the eye gets fooled and the heart educated.
The collection manoeuvres shapes to a surrealist world, trumps our eye with materials and walks a free line between primordial ceramics and modernist patterns. It almost feels like a utopian anthem as it beats on the earth and the many strata of civilisations, excavating stairs, arches, vases, troglodyte alcoves. None of them brought up in their literal sense, always on the verge of meta-amphorisms, carving curiosity. Be ready to experience the signature colour palette of the artist and its luminous natural hues: terracotta, powdery cocoa, burnt spices...
The collection manoeuvres shapes to a surrealist world, trumps our eye with materials and walks a free line between primordial ceramics and modernist patterns. It almost feels like a utopian anthem as it digs the earth and the many strata of civilisations, excavating stairs, arches, vases, troglodyte alcoves. None of them brought up in their literal sense, always on the verge of meta-amphorisms, carving curiosity. Be ready to experience the signature colour palette of the artist and its luminous natural hues: terracotta, powdery cocoa, burnt spices...
When Garance Vallée graduated as an architect in 2017, she had no idea she was less than a year away from becoming a prominent figure in the design world. At Milan Design Week, humanity literally fell in love with her iconoclast and uninhibited world, where the eye gets fooled and the heart educated.
The collection manoeuvres shapes to a surrealist world, trumps our eye with materials and walks a free line between primordial ceramics and modernist patterns. It almost feels like a utopian anthem as it beats on the earth and the many strata of civilisations, excavating stairs, arches, vases, troglodyte alcoves. None of them brought up in their literal sense, always on the verge of meta-amphorisms, carving curiosity. Be ready to experience the signature colour palette of the artist and its luminous natural hues: terracotta, powdery cocoa, burnt spices...
Garance
Vallée
When Garance Vallée graduated as an architect in 2017, she had no idea she was less than a year away from becoming a
prominent figure in the design world. At Milan Design Week, humanity literally fell in love with her iconoclast and uninhibited
world, where the eye gets fooled and the heart educated.
The collection manoeuvres shapes to a surrealist world, trumps our eye with materials and walks a free line between primordial
ceramics and modernist patterns. It almost feels like a utopian anthem as it beats on the earth and the many strata of civilisations,
excavating stairs, arches, vases, troglodyte alcoves. None of them brought up in their literal sense, always on the verge of
meta-amphorisms, carving curiosity.
Be ready to experience the signature colour palette of the artist and its luminous natural hues: terracotta, powdery cocoa,
burnt spices...
So here is the thing. One can wrestle with concrete all day long and still be a romantic at heart. The Parisian artist won't let us just
take her word for it, she'll give proof of it throughout her work, finding a perfect balance between the rigour of architectural lines and
the warmth of organic shapes. Whether for Martina Gamboni in Milan, with Maison Margiela or in the pages of Vogue, she always
perpetuates that contrast with her strong leitmotivs: her telluric energy, her mineral strata, her fantasy antique archetypes and that
light from the dawn of civilisations.
Why such a sense of freedom in her art? Surely the unbridled approach of the compositions plays a part. Garance Vallée cuts angles
loose, opens up traditional architecture perspectives and deceives the eye. Collaborating with Asteré naturally became an opportunity
to explore these trompe-l'oeil while finding a path from volumes to the two dimensions of a mural creation to keep them real.
