Looking back in the archives at a memorable exhibition at my former gallery: “ELEMENTS (paintings and constructions)” by the artist and designer Nathalie Du Pasquier. Born in Bordeaux in 1957 and based in Milan, Du Pasquier first gained international recognition in the 1980s as a founding member of the influential Memphis Group, before dedicating herself entirely to painting and fine art from 1987 onwards.
The exhibition at the gallery’s Cologne space on An der Schanz marked a significant occasion: it was Nathalie Du Pasquier’s first solo exhibition in Germany. The show offered a rich and intimate insight into her multifaceted practice. At the heart of the exhibition were a substantial number of her distinctive paintings, in which everyday objects, architectural fragments and geometric forms are arranged in a singular interplay of colour and space. Accompanied by a selection of drawings as well as a small group of her three-dimensional wooden constructions — objects that sit at the threshold between sculpture and model, and that mirror the spatial logic explored in her paintings.
3 November 2012 – 26 January 2013 Galerie Desaga, Cologne (An der Schanz)
