For the 7th consecutive year, Carpenters Workshop Gallery exhibits at Design Miami/ Basel, with a selection of artworks curated by Jérôme Sans.

Since its creation, Carpenters Workshop Gallery has transcended classical borders in terms of art and design, and proves it again on this year’s booth, with design pieces created by contemporary artists who have left their traditional territories of expression. The exhibited artworks stand at the intersection of these two universes, reaching precisely a symbiosis of the two disciplines.

The gallery asserts the permeability of these disciplines and the absence of boundaries between art and design. The contemporary artists are interested more and more by the perspective of giving a functional nature to their works. This constraint of functionality, normally specific to design, establishes a stimulant challenge for the artist, a constraint compared to the absolute freedom which they usually have at their disposal.
 

Curated by Jérôme Sans.

The exhibited artists are : ATELIER VAN LIESHOUT, KENDELL GEERS, MENTAL KLINIK, TIM NOBLE & SUE WEBSTER, THUKRAL & TAGRA, ERWIN WURM

ABOUT CARPENTERS WORKSHOP GALLERY

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.