Jim DINE Jules OLITSKI Sonia DELAUNAY Benjamin SHINE Simon PHEULPIN Wang KEPING Gianfranco MEGGIATO Francois CALVAT Huyn Ae KANG Fu WENJUN Alexander CALDER
SIMONE PHEULPIN
Simone Pheulpin's iconic "Decadé" wall installation of 10 cotton sculptures on wooden panels, an incredible 9 x 13 ft chef-d’œuvre, created for Biennal International de la Tapisserie a Lausanne in 1987.
Her works are the result of an instinctive expression that uses both the suppleness and firmness of an untreated, natural material, a simple nonbleached cotton. Simon’s sculptures are made of fabric strips and pins only. From her fabric strips and thousands of pins, a veritable vocabulary of forms and shapes with an organic allure, a supernatural world where surprising rocks and the seabed take form, sprung from her spirit and guided by her hands.
“For Simone Pheulpin, a fundamentally atypical textile sculptor, folding is a language, her language. Her strips of raw cotton, tirelessly stacked, twisted and connected, produce organic sculptures that reflect Simone Pheulpin’s intense, deep, astonished perspective on nature and convey her view of the world with infinite poetry. Simone Pheulpin (1941) had numerous exhibitions and awards, but the year of 2018 brought her international fame and glory. After being awarded The Loewe Foundation Award, having had exhibition in Design Museum in London, her piece was recently acquired by the Art Museum of Chicago.
Some of her organic sculptures, made of stacked and twisted raw cotton, resemble sea shells; others transport the spectator to the inside of a wet-and-sun-dried book, while others bring to mind odd vegetal shapes —that evolution should make the effort to bring into existence in the natural environment.
