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For the 15th edition of Art Truc Troc 2019, Jean-François Declercq has prepared his 9th external exhibition at the Bozar Museum Brussels. The project #itinerance09, is part of the work of Atelier Jespers to show the vivacity and creativity of artistic savoir-faire in all areas of design. This year, it brings together 26 Belgian and international artists from the contemporary design scene. A 180 m2 space will be devoted to their objects, lighting, furniture, textiles, with some limited edition and handcrafted pieces. The show presents the work of Alain Berteau & 6+2 Editions (BE), Archibald Pearson (FR), Briggs & Cole (UK), Casimir (FR), Clément Brazille (FR), Corinne Geffray (FR), Damien Gernay (BE), Destroyers & Builders (BE), Élise Peroi (FR), Frederik Delbart (BE), Frédéric Imbert (FR), Grégoire Scalabre (FR), Studio Krjst (BE), Laur Meyrieux (FR), Marion Duclos Mailaender (FR), Maria-Louisa Ponselee & Tim Onderbeke (BE), Marlo Kara (CH), Nada Debs (LIB), Nicolas Schuybroek (BE), Noro Khachatryan (BE), Pierre Coddens (BE), Pierre Graizon (FR), Rikkert Paauw (HOL), Studio Raw Materials (INDIA), Thomas Serruys (BE). In partnership with Spazio Nobile (BE), The Impermanent Collection (BE), Nada Debs (LB), Modern Shapes Gallery (BE), Kolkhoze (FR) and Mobilab (CH). #itinerance’s ambition is to present a coherent ensemble that mixes harmony and innovation and also to promote the next generation of designers.

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BOZAR, RUE RAVENSTEIN 23, 1000 BRUXELLES

1-2-3 FEBRUARY 2019

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ALAIN BERTEAU | 6+2 EDITION �� 10 – 16 CLÉMENT BRAZILLE �� 16 – 19 CASIMIR �� 20– 23 PIERRE CODDENS �� 24 – 27 CHRISTY COLE �� 28 – 31 NADA DEBS �� 32 – 35 FREDERIK DELBART �� 36– 39 DESTROYERS/BUILDERS �� 40 – 43 MARION DUCLOS MAILAENDER �� 44– 49 CORINNE GEFFRAY �� 50 – 53 DAMIEN GERNAY �� 54– 57 PIERRE GRAIZON �� 58 – 61 FRÉDÉRIC IMBERT �� 62– 65 MARLO KARA �� 66 – 69 NORO KHACHATRYAN �� 70 –73 KRJST STUDIO �� 74– 77 LAUR MEYRIEUX �� 78 – 81 TIM ONDERBEKE & MARIA-LOUISA PONSELEE �� 82 – 85 RIKKERT PAAUW �� 86 – 89 ARCHIBALD PEARSON �� 90 – 93 ÉLISE PEROI �� 94 – 97 RAW MATERIAL �� 98– 101 GRÉGOIRE SCALABRE ��102– 105 NICOLAS SCHUYBROEK �� 106– 109 THOMAS SERRUYS �� 110– 113 CONTACT �� 114

ALAIN BERTEAU www.alain-berteau.squarespace.com

Established in Brussels since 2002, architect designer Alain Berteau and his team develops products, buildings and creative strategies. Designing stationary, textiles, tableware, glassware, lighting, indoor and outdoor furniture collections for both residential and contract markets. Alain is the happy creator of several successful product collections. He’s working with Bulo, Montis, Gispen, Lensvelt, Delvaux, SmartDaimler, Wildspirit, Magazin, Objekten Systems, Othr, TossB, Modular, XLBoom and many other leading brands. Always looking for lasting relevance, his designs are recognized for their simple but decisive functional innovation, smart eco-friendly solutions and versatile convenience. Part of several design museum collections and winner of various awards such as Red Dots, IF or «Designer of the Year nomination», Alain is also a furniture design professor (La Cambre 2003-2013) and now CAD since 2014.

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REMPARTS â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 2018 Three gently rounded and polished stones cut out of a single marble slab, 45 x 30 x 25 cm Manufactured by Van den Weghe.

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For this first design edition, Brussels-based gallery Atelier Jespers unveils exceptional pieces from architect-designer Alain Berteau, an influential figure of European design, well-known for its seminal inventions in the furniture industry.

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DUOFLORE 02 VASE â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 2016 Black glazed ceramic, 30 x 28 cm with the support of Keramis

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CLÉMENT BRAZILLE www.clementbrazille.fr

Portrait: © Flavien Prioreau

Clément Brazille is a French creator and designer based in Geneva. His work aims to explore the potential and limits of materials. He is especially focused on the methods of manufacture and the shaping of objects. Frequently, he is the craftsman of his own pieces and realizes an important part of his own production himself. Clément Brazille keeps on collaborating with several cultural and industrial actors whose ambition is the development of high technology innovations or exceptional know-hows. If his production is especially focused on the craft of furniture coming from searches in different domains, Clement Brazille designs also public and private indoor spaces with strong personality. He advices and follows new innovative companies with an ethical and sustainable approach.

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VACUUM CERAMIC â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Stoneware, 38 cm x 27 cm x 27 cm, limited edition of 50 copies

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CASIMIR

Casimir studied Industrial Design at SHIVKV Genk. It was never a conscious choice of his to focus on design. Casimir was just looking for a versatile direction that would include theory and technique as well as creativity. While training as an Industrial Designer, he discovered that designing industrial products was not for him, as an industrial product is an accumulation of compromises and rarely the expression of a personal emotion or the personal vision of the designer... He won several awards, such as the Culture Award from the Province of Limburg in 1994, the Henry van de Velde Award in 2000, from Design Vlaanderen, and The Flemish Culture Award, the most prestigious award in Belgium for Architecture and Design, for the collections ‘Casimir Meubelen’ and ‘Vlaemsch’, in 2004. The latter award is attributed biennially in this category. Laureates of Flemish Culture Prizes have been, amongst others, Raf Simons, Martin Margiela, Maarten van Seeveren, …

PLANK3 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 2018 Solid oak, 90 x 22 x 8 cm

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PIERRE CODDENS www.instagram.com/pierrecoddens/

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Self-taught creator, Pierre Coddens explores and transgresses the boundaries that separate art from design and design from craft. In 2016 the gallery The Impermanent Collection devotes him the exhibition ALTERED BRANCHES, which presents a series of 4 sculptural lamps oxidized according to a random results process. Since then, he has been constantly interested in imperfection, alteration and deformation which he considers as the supplement of life added to the material. In early 2018 at the Collectible Design Fair, he presents among others a series of soliflores made of broken marble slab and crooked brass bars. In October of the same year, he will interact with the memory of Eva Hesse during the exhibition A TRIBUTE TO, for which he realized a series of four pieces entitled DEAR EVA. Made of forged brass and deformed by the force of his body, sometimes joined to each other by a flesh-colored silicone link, he pays a personal tribute to the notion of Anti Form and also refers to Matthew Barney and to his work on the methodology of physical exertion.

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DEAR EVA â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 2018 Brass, Silicone, Pigments, 6 x 240 cm

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ALTERED BRANCHES â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 2016 Brass, oxydation, 1 x 200 cm

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CHRISTY COLE

Portrait: © Kirsty Anderson

Briggs & Cole Design Studio was founded in Glasgow (Scotland) by designer Christy Cole. The studio focuses on design consultancy for interiors with the creation of bespoke commissioned works of Design for clients. Their work is interested in the experimental edge of current societal needs for design and what exactly enhances the experience of how we see and engage with designed objects. Work for interiors often present a microcosm of whatever is going on in their practice — site specific collages, furniture, objects, textiles and installations. Their practice encapsulates storytelling through narrative works in a non-precious, hands-on approach to objects. The “Caesura” glass vase is unique, handblown and created by using geometric “step” proportions inspired by stairwells within the “Reid” building for The Glasgow school of Art. Designed by eminent architect Steven Holl, the step proportions mirror the handcrafted relationship to materials indebted to Charles Rennie Mackintosh.

CAESURA, BRIGGS & COLE â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 2014 Clear hand blown glass, 18.5 cm x 7 cm x 24 cm, Limited Edition

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NADA DEBS www.nadadebs.com

ÂŠ Portrait: ÂŠ Tarek Moukaddem.

Nada Debs is a Lebanese designer living and working in Beirut. Her work spans scale and discipline: from product and furniture design to one-off commissions across craft, art, fashion and interiors. What ties her work together is her ability to distil culture and craftsmanship to create pieces of emotional resonance. Nada grew up in Japan, studied design at the Rhode Island School of Design in the United States and has spent significant periods of time living and travelling the world, finding connections between different cultures. There is something of each of her experiences in all of her work. In essence, she captures the power of the human hand to tell stories that touch the heart. She calls her approach: handmade and heartmade.

AT THE EDGE OF LOVE â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 2016 Wool, 300 x 160 cm

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YOU SPIN ME ROUND Wool, 300 x 160 cm

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FREDERIK DELBART www.frederikdelbart.be

Portrait: © Oriana Gomez-Zerpa

Frederik Delbart Design Studio is an independent creative office located in Antwerp and Hasselt, Belgium, active in product design, strategic design management and consultancy. Inspired by textures and structures, the main purpose of the studio is creating honest and simple objects. By having a critical approach on the way objects are used and look, every step of the “design process” is deeply analysed and regarded with respect for the user, the manufacturer and the editor. As we live in a critical environmental situation, respect for nature is always present in the choice of materials, the assembly methods and a strict selection of suitable production plants. Passionate by raw and pure materials such as wood, glass, metal, porcelain and paper, the studio tries to find new limits for each by using those materials in a mix of respect for tradition and sense of innovation. In 2018, Frederik Delbart was Awarded as «Designer of the Year» by Interieur Kortrijk, Knack Weekend, LeVif Weekend, Designmuseum Gent and CID Grand Hornu.

DON TABLE â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 2018 Travertin, 240 x 100 x 75 cm Produce by Il Granito (BE)

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DON TABLE

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DESTROYERS/BUILDERS

Portrait: ÂŠ Linde Freya Tangelder

Destroyers/Builders is a Brussels based design studio, founded by Linde Freya. With a focus on materiality the studio strives for sensory relevance in detail and bigger scale. Linde Freya highlights the field between industrial and human methods, and translates this into primary form language. Studio Destroyers/Builders makes objects and interior projects with a conscious material use and aims to bring daily objects closer to our senses. Our projects that range from commissions to self-initiated projects, and extends across the realms of both product and interior design. Product and material designer Linde Freya Tangelder (1987), based in Brussels, has been raised with Brazilian-Dutch background. Her interest for materiality and wealth in cultural objects became alive at young age. After her work experiences at the Campana Brothers in Sao Paulo and Studio Unfold in Antwerp, she started Studio Destroyers/ Builders together with her work/life partner Jo Groven.

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BIGGER PLATE 01 — Limited edition of 10 pieces Meranti wood “aubergine”, pigment and varnish, 13 x 60 x 60 cm

DESTROYERS/BUILDERS www.destroyersbuilders.com

BIGGER PLATE 01

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MARION DUCLOS MAILAENDER

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After studying at Ecole Boulle in Paris, MDM launched her interior design office called Design&fils in Paris in 2004. Since then, she has created objects and scenographies, as well as residential and commercial projects. Her creative humor has already attracted many creative personalities like Amélie Pichard or the Colombian designer Esteban Cortazar, who trusted her through unique projects. Functioning instinctively, Marion mixes genres and eras and does not hesitate to exceed the limits of good taste through projects often referring with the 80’s and 90’s. Once the plans and volumes work, Marion establishes an important dialogue with her clients so that their personalities are revealed in the selection of furniture, materials, decoration. The idea is to accompany the customers in the modernity.

CHAISE SUPERPESANTE â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 2017 Bronze, 39 x 41 x 90 cm

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CORINNE GEFFRAY

Corinne Geffray long worked as a designer before committing herself to sculpture. Her involvement with materials and her taste for the empirical touch in initial exploration of shapes were naturally reactivated by the new issues induced by an artistic research freed from the contraints of functionality. Today, her sculptures still reveal a succession of decisions and simple gestures. Basic materials; wood, metal, stone, clay; are shaped and organized into formal confrontational set ups, reflecting their respective aesthetics and materiality. The resulting pieces navigate freely between abstraction and figuration, cultivating strangeness and humor, as fundamental necessities for their emergence.

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FRACTAL Stoneware, steel, 32 x 44 x 10 cm

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DAMIEN GERNAY www.damiengernay.com

Portrait: © Bruno Timmermans — Represented in France by Gosserez Gallery.

Damien Gernay’s work is highly experimental, driven by his desire to challenge boundaries between art and design. To date, his practice spans furniture, lighting, and accessories. His pieces often reflect a reverence for nature and the enigmatic; his larger oeuvre focuses on materiality, texture, and ambiguity. Close to the considerations of a painter or a sculptor, the imponderable plays a decisive role in his practice. The error is accepted and assimilated, making each piece unique with its own history, complexities, and intimate paradoxes. He combine control with spontaneity, mixing the smooth with the rough.

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BLOATED_STOOL Inflated leather, solid ash 26 x 31 x 51 cm

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PIERRE GRAIZON www.prgrzn.com

Pierre Graizon was born in Montpellier in 1992. He graduated with honours from ESBAMA in 2013, and obtained his master’s degree at les Beaux Arts de Nantes with congratulations of the jury in 2015. He obtained his master’s degree from the Accessories master at La Cambre in 2018 and is currently living and working in Bruxelles. His work tends to question the role of distinction in the constitution of one’s identity nowadays, the ambivalence of this quest for exception in a globalized society, as well as the consequences for a mediatically exposed and staged individual life.

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MASK OFF N°7 — 2018 Felt, crocodile skin, 17 x 25 x 11 cm

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SELFLESS N°1 — 2018 Felt, skin of python, 17 x 28 x 10 cm

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MASK OFF N°7 — 2018 Felt, crocodile skin, 17 x 25 x 11 cm

FRÉDÉRIC IMBERT

Frédéric Imbert started his career in 2008 and graduated from Interior Design in 2010. He implements a learning approach through an array of projects that he is involved in, including architecture, classical and contemporary interior design and furniture design. Those projects become the foundation of his studio which was established in 2018, hosting diversity and exchange. His work starting point is the need to go back to the normal shapes, before industrialisation. When the lines of furnitures pieces were created by craftmen and not a machine. This process created a sensitive piece, This is not a functional sculpture but a true piece of furniture, focusing an the essential function and craftman gesture. this process was push until it became the acceptance of irregularities beauty and the gesture sensibility that trully matters Frédéric’s work is based between Paris and Beirut, a place where he grew up and a city that he is attached to.

SIDETABLE01 Concrete and natural fiber, 55 x 36 x 38 cm

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MARLO KARA

with the support of Mobilab Gallery (CH)

Marlo Kara is a young Swiss talent and graduate of ECAL, the Lausanne school of art. In 2013, he took part in the collective exhibition «Les espaces du design» (The spaces of design) organised by the UBS Foundation in Lausanne and the magazine Espace Contemporain. He also took part in a workshop led by Hans Ulrich-Obrist and Simon Castets. In 2014, his work was recognised by the HAY Talent Award at Herning in Denmark. He took part in the Design Parade 9 at the Villa Noailles in Hyères. He created the FABRIQUE collection for the Mobilab Gallery and their exhibition “Mes Meilleurs Tubes” (My Best Hits). He founded the brand Marlo & Isaure together with Isaure Bouyssonnie in order to distribute their own design objects, and now lives and works in Tunisia.

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FABRIQUE â&#x20AC;&#x201D; mobilabgallery, 2016 Anodized aluminium tubes, thermolactic steel base, led, 35 x 10 x 32 cm

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FABRIQUE

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NORO KHACHATRYAN www.studiokhachatryan.com

Studiokhachatryan, founded in 2010 by designer Noro Khachatryan, is active in various felds of product and architectural design. The studio designs installations, interiors and architectural elements for public and residential spaces. Experimental work, functional objects and furniture are selfproduced or manufactured in cooperation with Belgian and international companies. Noroâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s design seems to provide objects with a wider experience: they loose their static and project themselves into a metamorphic universe. The designer loves natural materials and drives them carefully to new dimensions, emphasizing one texture or combining different ones: wood, metal, stone.. become words for a new language whose syntax is ruled by a combination of ancient and contemporary dialects. The Eastern and Western heritage and industrial know-how interact to generate a poetic design, made with honesty, technical knowledge and craftsmanship.

CHAIR C19.1 (prototype) Solid Aluminium, 50 x 50 x 70 cm

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CHAIR C19.1 (prototype)

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KRJST STUDIO www.studiokrjst.com

Portrait: © Alexander Popelier – Studio KRJST

KRJST Studio’s story started in 2012 launched by Erika Schillebeeckx (KR) and Justine de Moriamé (JST), both graduated in Stylisme at La Cambre (Belgium) where they developed their knowledge for textiles, colors and shapes. 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. The translation of the research into clothes and weaving represents the heart of their creative approach. KRJST Studio takes its root in the unexpected symbiosis between fashion and art, mixing works in colors, 3D, technology, textile and craft.

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AWE-UNDERWATER â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 2018 Merino wool, Mohair, Polyamide, Elirex, Polyester, Acrylic, Monofil, Coton 300 x 400 cm

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AWE-ON FIRE â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 2018 Paper, Acrylic, Mohair, Polyester, Coton, Trevira, Elirex, Viscose 180 x 180 cm

LAUR MEYRIEUX wwww.laurmeyrieux.com

Portrait: © Mote Sinabel

Laur Meyrieux is born in France and graduated from Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs de Paris and from Ecole des Beaux Arts de Saint-Etienne. Designer, interior designer, artistic director and scenographer, she established her diversity of skills and her international experience within her own creative company. Passionate about Japan, Laur moved to Tokyo and opened her creative studio “Laur Meyrieux studio” in 2001, and in 2012 in Hong Kong.

These 14 years in Asia has given to her the opportunity to work on ambitious projects such as Hermès, Ebisu or Jouet. In 2016, Laur moved back to Paris. She creates a furniture collection for Maison Grange, that has been shown at Paris Design Week in September 2017, creates exhibition scenographies and develops her own collection of objects, furniture and wallpaper.

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ROCK N’ LUX — 2007 Metal stand, metal crash cymbal, electric wire, 42 x 90 x 150 cm

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I play with the ambiguity of forms between art and design, twist materials or objects from their initial uses, express my sensitivity to the work of light. The cymbal, like the guitar, is for me a cult object, a symbol of my culture. With the Rock n’ Lux lamp, I chose to twist the evocative power of the cymbal; to turn this musical instrument with sound resonances into a “vibration” of light.

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TIM ONDERBEKE & MARIA-LOUISA PONSELEE

With her jewellery collection, Louisa Maria Ponseele disrupts the sense of the jewel as a charming accent of beauty for the body. From her fascination with female vanity, she infuses her jewellery with references to the beauty ritual in front of the mirror, the maniac-like eliminating of imperfections meant to make one feel good and attractive to others. Tanguy

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The work of the artist Tim Onderbeke (Belgium, 1983) is based on negative sp ace, the space between different objects. His photos, videos, sculptures and pain tings are produced in a mechanical way. He lets materials speak for themselves. After this physical creation and through associative connotations, a mystical per ception imposes itself on the viewer. The unification of these two processes represents the core of his oeuvre. With in this grid he approaches applied arts and creates a Gesamtkunstwerk.

KANDELAAR â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 2018 Tin and glass ruby, 15 x 6 cm

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TIM ONDERBEKE & MARIA-LOUISA PONSELEE

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RIKKERT PAAUW www.rikkertpaauw.nl www.valerietraan.be ÂŠ Portrait: Lothaire Hucky

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Rikkert Paauw (1982) is an autodidact spatial designer based in Utrecht the Netherlands. His works go about space, proportions, and the necessity of things as mostly his works are made of locally found materials.

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CHAIR — 2019 Different kind of wood, 45 x 45 x 75 cm Courtesy Galerie Valérie Traan

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Archibald Pearson, Scottish, born 1988 Lives and works in France

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CHAISE DÉMONTABLE N°1 (PROTOTYPE) — 2018 Plywood, 90 x 40 x 40 cm

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Ă&#x2030;LISE PEROI www.eliseperoi.com

Portrait: ÂŠ Thomas Jean Henri

Elise Peroi was graduated in textile design at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in 2015. Her work evolved towards the creation of moving structures allowing a volume in the textile and another way of looking, playing on the obliques of Transparency And shadow brought by the threads she intersects. Being Laureate she was invited in Italy to the FONDAZIONE AURELIO PETRONI. She developed textile installations that retranscribed the correlation between the elements and the emotions that the vision of a landscape can raise. Since 2016, she was supported by the Halles de Schaerbeek and developed textile performances by feeding on the weaving technique. This year, she was on a residence at TAMAT at Tournai. She developed a research around a form of textile dramaturgy.

CERF-VOLANT â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 2018 Textile, 1,80 x 1,20 cm

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RAW MATERIAL www.studiorawmaterial.com

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Raw Material is an ongoing exploration of geology in terms of material and processes. Studio and workshop are based in the desert plains of western India. The hills surrounding the region are diverse in hue, density and opacity. Set deep within a stark terrain, the aim is to express an experience of being immersed in this landscape of a singular material. The craft techniques in India are mostly studied from an exotic lens of decorative ornamentation. The marble craft is not just about the decoration but the building techniques used to build the temples and architectural monuments.

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OFFCUT 04 VASE â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 2018 Oxide Pink marble and White Mist marble 52 x 33 x 16,5 cm Limited Edition of 12 + 2 AP

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GRÉGOIRE SCALABRE www.gregoire-scalabre.com

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Grégoire Scalabre is a French ceramist and contemporary sculptor. His artistic world is broadly inspired by architecture and industry, by architectural heritage of French monuments and by statuary art. As an atypical figure in the current art scene, Grégoire Scalabre continually widens the limits of ceramics. The artist challenges the material towards a constantly renewed repertoire of shapes: from scattering and accumulation to dynamism and monumentality, including architecture and metallurgy. With his latest creations “Endless Movement”, the ceramist applies his know-how to a both architectural and bodily vocabulary. Meticulous throwing, slab building, modeling and assemblage create a set of broken lines and open curves. Minerality gets the final touch, thanks to an innovative technique of marble-powder covering. Grégoire Scalabre lives and works in Paris. He is reprensented in Paris by Nec Nilsson & Chilien Gallery.

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MOUVEMENT PERPÃ&#x2030;TUEL Marble, ceramic, 34 x 44 x 44 cm With the support of Modernshapes Gallery

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NICOLAS SCHUYBROEK www.ns-architects.com

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The Belgian architect Nicolas Schuybroek began his career in Montreal, working for Intégral Jean Beaudoin. He then returned to Belgium and joined the office of Vincent Van Duysen in Antwerp as project director, handling high-end architecture projects in Belgium and beyond. In 2011, Nicolas Schuybroek started his own practice based in Brussels, with a well defined purpose: create and produce architecture, interiors and objects characterized by an acute sense of detail, craftsmanship and intuition, while retaining a feeling of warmth. The search for timeless minimalism and apparent simplicity are central in his work, as well as the love of unassuming, tactile and raw materials.

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HH Bowl, Iranian travertine marble, Egyptian sandstone and perforated bronze

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THOMAS SERRUYS www.thomasserruys.com

“When i grow up i want to be a psychopath” thus said a very young Thomas Serruys (°86 Bruges) to an inquisitive nun in preparation of his first communion. Of course he meant psychologist and even though his life took a whole different direction than the academic study of human psyche his words did have a certain ring to them. Like the mind the steel needs to be bend in previously unknown forms so as to attain true perfection. These unorthodox forms and curves need to be wire fed so the whole can become a radiant structure. A flick of the switch and voilà let there be light. But there is no rest on the seventh day. The autodidact Thomas has enveloped himself in the work ethic of his atelier’s location: the port of Ostend. The cool sea breeze feeds the fire of the furnace, the incessant hammering collides with seagull screeching. In 2018 a more inland liaison has been established as a resident in the Zaventem project by Lionel Jadot. The atelier will be operational by the end of November.

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SPARTACUS MAGNUS I (White) H 220 cm x W 21 cm x D 21 cm

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SPARTACUSÂ MAGNUS II (YELLOW) 220 cm x 21 cm x 21 cm

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COII 130 x 25 x 20 cm

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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, Jean-François 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

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