Nathalie

Nathalie du Pasquier is a painter, graphic artist, and designer. In the 1980s, Du Pasquier was one of the founding members of the Memphis group, which formed around the iconic Ettore Sottsass. During those years, she designed numerous textiles, rugs, objects, and furniture, as well as patterns for other designers' furniture within the group. Her distinctive graphics, resulting from her travels in Africa and Asia in the late 1970s, left a lasting mark on Memphis creations.
When the group disbanded in 1987, she returned to her original medium, painting. Nathalie Du Pasquier's style is immediately recognizable: an explosive and harmonious blend of exuberant patterns and vibrant colors. Her work evokes a sense of travel, African wax prints, with a touch of rock and quirkiness.

Over the past thirty-five years, Du Pasquier has been intrigued by the relationship between objects and the spaces in which they are installed. This ongoing investigation has manifested in paintings, sculptures, designs, patterns, constructions, carpets, books, and ceramics—constantly acting between the representational and non-representational, the tangible and intangible, reality and imagination, and two- and three-dimensional forms.

New objects constantly enrich Du Pasquier’s imaginary and symbolic world and she follows particular, poetic paths to construct and compose forms, sculpt space, and render representation anew. She considers everything that she has done as raw material for future projects - a work that sets its own limits in each instant but at the same time is always ready to escape the frame of any rules, entering into unknown territory.