From 24 May to 23 August 2014 Carpenters Workshop Gallery will host a unique group show in its Parisian gallery in Le Marais. Entitled Organic, this new exhibition presents artworks of 12 designers, all characterized by their inventiveness, as well as their vast range of colours used and materials employed here.

Inspired or created from vegetable, animal or organic shapes and textures, these works intend to highlight nature’s aesthetic dimension, as can be seen from the Campana Brothers’ Pirarucu’s skin (giant Amazonian fish) buffet.

The artists have imagined functional sculptures whose shapes refer to the complexity of the organic reality, thus inventing a new vocabulary through their reinterpretation of nature’s elements.

List of exhibited artists :

Atelier Van Lieshout, Andrea Branzi, Humberto & Fernando campana, Wendell castle, ingrid Donat, Vincent Dubourg, Loneke gordijn & Ralph Nauta, Joris Laarman, Frederik Molenschot, Marc Quin, Rick owens, Charles Trevelyan.

Carpenters Workshop Gallery produces and exhibits functional sculptures by international rising and already established artists and designers going outside their traditional territories of expression.

The gallery is actively involved in the research and production of the limited edition works exhibited. The choices are guided by the research of an emotional, artistic and historical relevance; a relevance that appears as an evidence.

The gallery relies on the partnership of childhood friends, Julien Lombrail and Loic Le Gaillard. They first opened a space in London’s Chelsea in 2006 in a former carpenter’s workshop; they then followed with a second space in Mayfair in 2008.

The opening of a 600 square metre space in Paris in 2011 at 54 rue de la Verrerie, an address steeped in history as it was previously occupied by the Galerie de France for several decades, is a kind of return to their roots.

The expansion into Paris confirms the two founders’, and associate gallery director Aurélie Julien’s comittment to the international promotion of the gallery’s artists and designers.