Catalogue #itinerance03 by jfdurand

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Titre Oeuvre, YYYY Material, dimensions

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Built by Victor Bourgeois for his sculptor friend Oscar Jespers in 1928, the workshop was used by Jespers until his death in 1970. The 400 m² space was a popular meeting place for the European artistic avant-garde at the end of the 1920s. In September 2015, Jean-François Declerq decided to turn it into an art centre, a space dedicated to encounters and exhibitions. Under the name Atelier Jespers, the house has returned to its initial mission: presenting. In a modernist setting, the house now hosts all kinds of artistic projects, including design, mixed media and sound, with the humble ambition of creating a dialogue between the intention of Victor Bourgeois and contemporary artworks. In 2017, Atelier Jespers started organizing its ‘Itinérance’ series, external projects bringing art to the public in Belgium and abroad. For its third edition, #itinerance03 presents 6 designers at Collectible: Frédéric Pellenq (F), FCK Frédérick Gautier (F) and Maarten Stuer (B), Studio KRJST (B), Sophie Dries (F) & Francesco Balzano (F). #itinerance03, in partnership with online platform Kolkhose, showcases a coherent ensemble combining harmony and innovation.

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FRANCESCO BALZANO �� 4–7 SOPHIE DRIES �� 8–11 FCK — FRÉDÉRICK GAUTIER �� 12–15 KRJST STUDIO �� 16–19 FRÉDÉRIC PELLENQ �� 20–23 MAARTEN STUER �� 24–27

contact �� 32 notes �� 36

FRANCESCO BALZANO www.francescobalzano.com

FRANCESCO BALZANO is a french designer based in Paris. His research work is a permanent tribute to the beauty of timeless things. The simplicity is used as an ultimate sophistication, mixing noble materials, purity of lines and essential functions of everyday lifestyle.

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GIORGIO CHAIR — Edition of 12, 2017 Sanded and skated steel, 45 x 46 x 90 cm Handcrafted in France by Ateliers Saint-Jacques within the Fondation de Coubertin

FRANCESCO BALZANO

GIORGIO CHAIR

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SOPHIE DRIES www.sophiedries.com

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Portrait: © Gilles Uzan — Cecilia Musmeci (Le paradox)

Sophie Dries Architect is a Paris based design studio opened by the architect Sophie Dries in the fall of 2014 when she was just 28 years old. she has been collaborating for several years with many luxury interior design & architecture offices in Paris such as ateliers Jean Nouvel, Pierre Yovanovitchor Christian Liaigre. After graduating as an architect at Paris Malaquais Architecture school located in the beaux arts, and studying furniture design at aalto university of Helsinki (Finland). she started to design exhibitions for Musée d’Orsay. Sophie Dries also studied at l’École du Louvre. she is a specialist in contemporary art advising.

VASE NAKUM — Edition of 20, 2017 Stoneware with white projected Clay 20 x 19 cm

VASE COPAN — Edition of 20, 2017 Stoneware with white projected Clay 18 x 22 cm

SOPHIE DRIES

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VASE UXMAL — Edition of 20, 2017 Stoneware with white projected Clay 20 x 20 cm

FCK — FRÉDÉRICK GAUTIER www.fck-frederickgautier.com

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Portrait: © Walter Boi

Self-taught artist Gerard Kuijpers has been exploring the limits of the material for more than thirty years while searching for the essence of form and function. This quest reaches its climax in “Dancing Stones”: Here, all the contrasts come together, tensed in dialogue. The material has never been put to such an extreme challenge as it is in this “balancing exercise”. Moreover, each dancing stone is an ode to touch.

CORNE D’ABONDANCE — Unique piece, 2016 Stoneware, Numbered & Artist monogram at the base

FCK — FRÉDÉRICK GAUTIER

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OPT X 100 LE CORBUSIER (TEA POT T) — Unique piece 2015, Stoneware, from 15 to 20 x 15 cm Numbered & Artist monogram at the base

KRJST STUDIO www.studiokrjst.com

KRJST Studio takes its root in the unexpected symbiosis between fashion and art, mixing works in colors, 3D, technology, textile and craft. KRJST Studio’s story started in 2012 launched by Erika Schillebeeckx and Justine de Moriamé. KRJST Studio became a world dedicated to plastic research and development based on a quest for spirituality. Through their creative process, they reinvent iconographies from the past, crystallizing their research on protection, symbolism and the Sacred. Their strong identity, close to neo-baroque, incorporates pictural and technical exploration. Painting, drawings, 3D works and results of our alchemic experiments are filling the studio.

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ANDROMEDA — 2016 Rubber, cotton, cash wool, mohair, linen 188 cm x 165 cm

KRJST STUDIO

ANDROMEDA

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FRÉDÉRIC PELLENQ www.fredericpellenq.fr

Frédéric Pellenq comes from the mountains. From the Hautes-Alpes, in Southern France. He grew up there. Between nature, snow and sun. He studied at École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Paris-Belleville (ENSAPB) to become an architect but also saw it as an opportunity to grow his sensitivity to the concepts of space, light and materials. His love of architecture comes from his will to work on interior designs, to think their drawing and comfort in order to have an impact on daily life. Since June 2016, he is an architect. Today, he chooses the furniture scale, going from the spread of the city to the detail of a chair. This smaller scale allows him to bring together two sides of creation: design and production. A direction that can be combined with interior design projects.

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Portrait: © Antoine Jouve — the lodge collection photography by Nicolas Huynh

CHAISE GEORGES — Edition of 12, 2017 Solid beech & burned hazel, 78 x 65 x 42.5 cm Numbered and signed by the artist

FRÉDÉRIC PELLENQ

CHAISE GEORGES

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MAARTEN STUER www.maartenstuer.net www.Kolkhoze.fr

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Graduate of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp, where he specialized in graphic arts, drawing and lithography, Maarten Stuer moved to Barcelona in the 1990s, where he learned to work with clay. In 1995 he moved to the Gers, France, where he still lives. A lover of nature and landscapes, he turned to clay to develop his art. In his hands, the clay is not so dense, not so heavy, not so lifeless… It becomes aerated and pierced, coils up and takes air, space, life and movement, apparently sensitive to weather conditions, to time passing and to the looks that it receives. Through his different series his works increase in scale. However, the shapes that emerge from a made-to-measure kiln remain inspired by the natural world, seeds, shells, waves, coiled fibres: a powerful, subtle world that combines archaism and spirituality.

DE STUUL — Edition of 3O, 2016 stoneware stool or end of sofa with Kaolin/ engobe, 48 x 37 x 38 cm, signed and dated

MAARTEN STUER

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DISQUE 1 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Unique piece, 2016 Stoneware sculpture Kaolin/engobe, 45 x 44 x 23 cm, Artist monogram at the base

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Over twenty years ago, a passion for design filled the world of Jean-François Declercq. In September 2015, he decided to transform his home into a centre for the arts dedicated to cultural exchanges and exhibitions. The 400 m² Atelier Jespers renews this mission: showing art. The modernist setting of the building hosts artistic projects of all varieties – design, visual arts, sound – with the humble ambition of creating a dialogue between Victor Bourgeois’s architecture and new art forms. Allowing himself complete freedom, JeanFrançois Declercq opens his doors to various forms of expression, provided they are in line with his own minimalist and conceptual choices: “I like things simple and beautiful!”.

CONTACT Erfprinslaan 149, Avenue du Prince Héritier Brussel 1200 Bruxelles, Belgium Jean-Francois Declercq +32 475 64 95 81 Elsa Sarfati +33 6 10 84 27 48 jf@itinerance-project.com www.itinerance-project.com

Exposition hors les murs réalisée grâce au soutien de:

& Aurélien Gendras

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