Rotunda Installation Project Musee D’Art Roger Quilliot, Clermont-Ferrand
Introducing Pierre Mabille, an artist obsessed with one elemental shape.
Over time this artist has ”simplified and purified” his visual vocabulary, reducing images to signs and symbols, and finally coming to rest on this one visual symbol, a pointy-ended oval.
His work explores this shape – as well as looks for this shape in the world around us. On the artist’s website, you will be treated to numerous photographs of this shape found in all sorts of surprising places. What does it remind you of?
Detail from Rotunda Project – Musee D’Art Roger Quillliot
Craies sur papier, 2000
Ombres - Dessin au Soleil – 2004
Mabille works primarily in France, and I discovered his work through Bleu Acier, an exhibition space and contract print atelier owned by collaborative Master Printer Erika Schneider, in Tampa Florida. The two images below are available through this gallery -- Email bleuacier@verizon.net to request images of all Peirre’s work in stock.
Dessin 6 from the New York Series, 2001-2002 Ink, acrylic and pastel on paper, 22 x 30. $1,000
Dessin 1 from the New York Series, 2001-2002 Ink, acrylic and pastel on paper, 22 x 30. $1,000
And what a treat, to have a glimpse into his studio, below.
The work is powerful on its own and in mulitiples, as well as blown up in scale. Below a few more installation views.
Installation view, Musee des Beaux Arts, Mulhouse, 2002
Installation view, Mulhouse, 2002
Installation view, Rouen, 2004
from Expositions Murmure, 2004
Veronica & Keith's Handmade Chic 
The World's Ugliest Condo: The Big Bathroom Reveal 
Good Food to Share 
The Big Book of Small, Cool Spaces 
Apartment Therapy Presents 
The Eight-Step Home Cure 
Hunslet Dinner Plate
A Beginner's Guide to Superb Stir-Fry: Quick, Healthy Meals from a Wok
Homesteaders' Cocktail Recipe: Lovage Simple Syrup
Comments (4)
I love that rotunda installation. It just immediately made me happy.
Lookin' a lot like Jorge Pardo at the Dia Foudation.
Look up _vesica piscina_.
It reminds me of those bones in the spine, the name of which escapes me now.
Also it reminds me of an abacus, and some of his images are reminds me of aquatic life, and in some of those images, the medieval symbol of a fish that Christians surreptitiously put on the doorways of the places where they would meet so that only each other knew that they were to meet there.