Nathalie du PASQUIER Peso blu - 2004 Oil on canvas Signed, titled and dated on the back 100 x 100,5 cm Oil on canvas ; signed, titled and dated on the reverse 39,37 x 39,37 in. Provenance: Pace Gallery, New York Acquired directly from the latter by the current owner "Entre l'extérieur et l'intérieur, entre la ligne de démarcation externe et interne, l'encadreur et l'encadré, la figure et le sol, la forme et le contenu, le signifiant et le signifié...." / "Between exterior and interior, between external and internal demarcation lines, framer and framed, figure and ground, form and content, signifier and signified... Jacques Derrida, Truth in Painting FR Nathalie du Pasquier is a French painter and designer who was born in Bordeaux in 1957 and has lived in Milan since 1979. A founding member of the "Memphis" group, a design and architecture movement formed in Italy around Ettore Sottsass in the 1980s, she devoted herself to design until 1986. She has designed numerous "decorated surfaces": textiles, carpets, laminated plastics, as well as furniture and objects. Since 1987, her main activity has been painting. When she works on a motif, Nathalie Du Pasquier proceeds by intuition, cutting out, modelling and juxtaposing forms: her work assembles colours, shapes and motifs in minimal, geometric compositions like so many improbable architectures, where still lifes of calm beauty, electric motifs, domestic landscapes and construction games blend in joyous freedom, like so many improbable visual spaces to be explored with the eye. His current work combines abstract painting with three-dimensional constructions arranged in space. EN Nathalie du Pasquier is a French painter and designer born in Bordeaux in 1957, who has lived in Milan since 1979. A founding member of the "Memphis" group, a design and architecture movement formed in Italy around Ettore Sottsass in the 1980s, she devoted herself to design until 1986. She designed numerous "decorated surfaces": textiles, carpets, laminated plastics, as well as furniture and objects. Since 1987, her main activity has been painting. When working on a motif, Nathalie Du Pasquier proceeds by intuition, cutting, shaping and juxtaposing forms: her work assembles colours, shapes and motifs in minimal, geometric compositions like improbable architectures, where still lifes of calm beauty, electric motifs, domestic landscapes and construction games mingle in joyful freedom, like so many improbable visual spaces to be explored with the eye. His current work combines abstract painting with three-dimensional constructions arranged in space. Nathalie du PASQUIER "Entre l'extérieur et l'intérieur, entre la ligne de démarcation externe et interne, l'encadreur et l'encadré, la figure et le sol, la forme et le contenu, le signifiant et le signifié...." / "Between exterior and interior, between external and internal demarcation lines, framer and framed, figure and ground, form and content, signifier and signified... Jacques Derrida, Truth in Painting FR Nathalie du Pasquier is a French painter and designer who was born in Bordeaux in 1957 and has lived in Milan since 1979. A founding member of the "Memphis" group, a design and architecture movement formed in Italy around Ettore Sottsass in the 1980s, she devoted herself to design until 1986. She has designed numerous "decorated surfaces": textiles, carpets, laminated plastics, as well as furniture and objects. Since 1987, her main activity has been painting. When she works on a motif, Nathalie Du Pasquier proceeds by intuition, cutting out, modelling and juxtaposing forms: her work assembles colours, shapes and motifs in minimal, geometric compositions like so many improbable architectures, where still lifes of calm beauty, electric motifs, domestic landscapes and construction games mingle in joyous freedom, like so many improbable visual spaces to be explored with the eye. His current work combines abstract painting with three-dimensional constructions arranged in space. EN Nathalie du Pasquier is a French painter and designer born in Bordeaux in 1957, who has lived in Milan since 1979. A founding member of the "Memphis" group, a design and architecture movement formed in Italy around Ettore Sottsass in the 1980s, she devoted herself to design until 1986. She designed numerous "decorated surfaces": textiles, carpets, laminated plastics, as well as furniture and objects. Since 1987, her main activity has been painting. When working on a motif, Nathalie Du Pasquier proceeds by intuition, cutting, shaping and juxtaposing forms: her work assembles colours, shapes and motifs in minimal, geometric compositions like improbable architectures, where still lifes of calm beauty, electric motifs, domestic landscapes and construction games mingle in joyful freedom, like so many improbable visual spaces to be explored with the eye. His current work combines abstract painting with three-dimensional constructions arranged in space.