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About “Jacques Jarrige”
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Jacques Jarrige is known for his unique vocabulary of sculptural forms that he applies to furniture, lighting, sculpture and jewelry. The works carry within his gesture, a back and forth dialogue with the material, a hesitation of the line that draws captivating and moving biomorphic forms in space. He works primarily with humble materials: plywood, MDF, aluminum or brass. Searching for the undiluted translation of his own physical and mental reality into an object, the Parisian sculptor makes no distinction between art and design — his delicate plywood furniture contains as much of himself as his mobiles or his jewelry.
Style
Jacques Jarrige is known for his unique vocabulary of sculptural forms that he applies to furniture, lighting, sculpture and jewelry. The works carry within his gesture, a back and forth dialogue with the material, a hesitation of the line that draws captivating and moving biomorphic forms in space. He works primarily with humble materials: plywood, MDF, aluminum or brass. Searching for the undiluted translation of his own physical and mental reality into an object, the Parisian sculptor makes no distinction...
About
Jacques Jarrige grew up in an artistic milieu in Paris and briefly studied decorative arts. But it was the confrontation with African sculpture, the works of Henry Moore, Jean Arp, George Nakashima and Alexander Calder that turned him into a sculptor and furniture maker. In 1991 he had his first exhibition at the influential avant-garde design Galerie En Attendant les Barbares, soon followed by shows at the Frederic de Luca Gallery and other prominent showcases for artist furniture.
Fame
From his participation in a group show at the Museum of Decorative Arts in Hamburg in 1994 on to the present, Jarrige's work has been extensively shown at major European institutions, among them the French National Archive of Visual Arts (CNAP) where his Osselet stool is currently on view as part of the highly acclaimed exhibit “Les Oracles du Design."
Since 2010, Jarrige has been represented by Valerie Goodman Gallery in New York where his monograph The Searching Line was published in 2013. His work is in the collections of Mobilier National and the Musée des Beaux Arts in Orléans.
