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RO-SÉ

A Book as a Bridge
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RO-SÉ is a hybrid monograph and artist book showcasing the work of Nathalie Du Pasquier, published to accompany her solo exhibition at MACRO, Rome. The book blends photographs of her paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, and cabins with installation views and insightful texts from key writers and thinkers influencing her practice. It acts as an extension of the exhibition itself, transforming pages into conceptual exhibition spaces that invite varied interpretations and deeper engagement with Du Pasquier’s vast and diverse oeuvre spanning from the early 1980s to today.
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Ideal for enthusiasts of contemporary art and culture, especially those interested in the exploration of multidisciplinary artistic practices and the development of Nathalie Du Pasquier’s influential career. Suitable for readers who appreciate artist books, exhibition catalogues, and in-depth visual and textual art studies.

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RO-SÉ is a hybrid monograph/artist book featuring the work of Nathalie Du Pasquier. It blurs the line between an exhibition catalogue and an artist book, offering a unique blend of photographs of Du Pasquier's artworks, installation views from her solo show at MACRO (Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome), and extracts from texts by various writers and figures fundamental to her practice.

This publication is released in conjunction with Nathalie Du Pasquier's solo exhibition at MACRO, which will later travel to the MRAC (Musée Régional d'Art Contemporain Occitanie/Pyrénées-Méditerranée). It serves as an extension of the exhibition itself, with pages conceived as exhibition spaces that embrace associations and combinations. This allows for a deeper understanding and exploration of Du Pasquier's work and her imagination at large.

RO-SÉ provides a glimpse into the possibilities offered by Du Pasquier's oeuvre, which can be approached, interpreted, and experienced from a multitude of perspectives. It is the vastness and variety of her work, as well as her inspirations, that make its exploration—and, by extension, this publication—nonexhaustive.

This publication is part of an ongoing study of her career and documents her exhibition at MACRO, titled "Campo di Marte," her most extensive show to date. The exhibition brought together over one hundred artworks, including paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, and cabins, spanning from the early 1980s to the present day.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9783956796340

Publisher: Sternberg Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 23 August 2022

Country: Germany

Imprint: Sternberg Press

Illustration: 160 COLOR ILLUS.

Contributors:

  • Edited by Luca Lo Pinto

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 13.0mm

Width: 208.0mm

Height: 297.0mm

Weight: 689g

Pages: 178

About the Author

Nathalie Du Pasquier is a French artist and designer who has lived in Milan since 1979. In 1981, Du Pasquier was one of the co-founders of the Memphis Group. Her numerous designs for decorated surfaces such as fabrics, carpets, furniture, and plastic laminates have played a key role in the creation of the unmistakable Memphis style. Despite her success as a designer, painting has been her main activity since 1987. Du Pasquier's ongoing research is articulated in paintings, sculptures, drawings, models, constructions, carpets, books, and ceramics, which constantly investigate the boundary between the representative and the unrepresentative, the tangible and the intangible, reality and imagination, and two/three-dimensional forms. Luca Lo Pinto is Director of Museo MACRO in Rome, Italy.

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