Natalie du pasquier

Box by Nathalie Du Pasquier

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Graphic and industrial designer, illustrator and painter, Nathalie Du Pasquier (Bordeaux, 1957) was one of the original co-founders of Italian design and architecture collective Memphis (see also our previous posts dedicated to Gerald Taylor and Tiger Takeishi). With Memphis, she contributed...

a shel of strange objects

American Apparel has collaborated with artist Nathalie Du Pasquier to create a collection of clothing using new prints inspired by her work with 1980s design collective, Memphis.

From Kunsthalle Wien, Nathalie Du Pasquier, Big Drawing (2013)

Brick as shape, sound, connection, and democratic module. Brick as unitary building, “space for an ant and bedroom for a bee.” Brick as part of a modular

Though Nathalie du Pasquier is known for a blocky, frazzled Memphis aesthetic, the full fruits of her output as an artist are on view at Anton Kern in NYC.

“Between the outside and the inside, between the external and the internal edge-line, the framer and the framed, the figure and the ground, form and content, signifier and signified.... ”Jacques Derrida, The Truth in PaintingIn her youth, Nathalie Du Pasquier once imagined becoming a sign painter—a “peintre en lettres” as she put it—working outdoors, carefully rendering the lettering on storefronts or the sides of cars. Du Pasquier has long gravitated toward places where painting intersects…