Campo di Marte II / Nathalie du Pasquier

A collection of works by Natalie de Pasquier, a French artist based in Italy. It is an additional version of "CAMPO DI MARTE" published in 2020, and it is a reprinted book with 16 pages added.

The paintings produced from the 1980s to 2020 were photographed and cut out, and they were arranged like typefaces, focusing only on the nature of the shape and the room for interpretation created by arranging them up. In this way, a fascinating play consisting of meaningless elements was born. It was a common surrealism in which images made up a certain type of text, with various elements extracted from the world of books when the author was stuck in words, such as titles, poems, and simple formulas.

The author, a founding member of the Memphis Group, a group of designers formed in Milan in 1981, embarked on a postmodern adventure with the group's central figure and designer Ettre Sotsus, objects, I worked on the design of textiles, carpets, and furniture. The radicalism and formal originality of the Memphis Group were appreciated only from the critical and symbolic postmodernist perspective, so the modern foundation of this adventure was erased too quickly.

The author's paintings are the composition of the axial projection method applied to the painting, the palette of dull color, the object if it exists in the composition, and the influence of the purism (purism) of Le Corbusier and Amedeye Ozenfan, which can be glimpsed from time to time. It brilliantly expresses "connection". Some paintings and structures mixed with memories and assimilation born from the most three-dimensional sprematism (absolutism) - architects - also highlight the history of this art and applied art.
 
softcover
160 pages
150 x 210 mm
color
2025
published by HUMBOLDT BOOKS