PAD Paris 2015
PAD Paris represents and transmits French taste through a mixture and combination of styles. The 2015 edition is fast approaching.
Known for its diversity in showcasing everything from paintings, sculptures, primitive art, photography and Asian art to furniture, antiquities, carpets, tapestries, contemporary glass, design and jewellery, each edition is aimed at creating a dialogue between modern art, historical and contemporary design.
This year’s edition presents 66 exhibitors from 15 countries across 10 categories. This year will see a special focus on primitive art, highlighting the importance and relevance of including such perspective.
Among the exhibitors are Galerie Negropontes headed by Sophie Negropontes and Hervé Langlais who have made it their mission to revive the tradition of French decorative arts. The gallery will, as part of the contemporary design category, present a new furniture collection by Langlais called Shifting Reflections. The designs of the collection play on optical illusions, perception and gaze to unveil aesthetics of multiplying forms, shapes and graphic motion.
Another exhibitor at PAD Paris 2015 is 88-Gallery which will be displaying as part of the 20th century decorative arts. The gallery’s director, Philippe Rapin, specializes in 20th century decorative arts and focuses on work from American, Italian, French and Belgian designers/artists such as Robert Goossens, Jean Després, Jean Puiforcat, Roberto Giulio Rida and Etienne Allemeersch. The gallery participates in the leading antiques and design fairs in Paris, Brussels and London and has recently opened a new division in Hong Kong.
Within the 20th Century Decorative Arts the Swedish gallery Modernity will be showcasing 20th century design from Scandinavian tradition. The gallery specialises in furniture, ceramics, glass, lighting and jewellery and features pieces by artists such as Arne Jacobsen, Alvar Aalto, Hans Wegner and Axel Salto.
Apart from furniture, arts and design, a remarkable category of PAD Paris 2015 is artist jewellery. Among the exhibitors in this category is LA Joaillerie par Mazlo whose vision is to explore and illuminate the expressive richness and artistic meaning of author jewellery, as an artistic medium as legitimate as the traditional fine arts of painting, sculpture, music and architecture.
PAD Paris is set to take place from Thursday 26 – Sunday 29 March 2015.
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