Vincent Beaurin

His creations fuse painting and sculpture, surface and volume, texture and contour, contemplation and reflection on space. His works form part of prestigious public and private collections, like the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris and the Agnès b Collection. He has also produced a large number of public and private commissions, such as La Nuit des Gobelins (2012–2016), a tapestry for the French Mobilier national, or Sparks (2020) for the Cheval Blanc Randheli hotel in the Maldives.

The Fondation Cartier invited him to present seven images on the facade of Jean Nouvel’s building for the exhibition 1 monde réel – Beaurin / Domercq (1999), and to participate in Yanomami, l’esprit de la forêt (2003) and Mémoires Vives (2014). And in 2002, with the exhibition Fragilisme and his dialogue with Italian architect and designer Alessandro Mendini, Vincent Beaurin explored the boundaries between art and design in an institutional setting.  Fragilisme represented an aesthetic project founded on the fragile and transitory nature of all things. Throwing up a smokescreen over what one might be tempted to define, the artists catalysed relationships between scales and spaces, in an explosion of colours and materials as diverse as the mosaic constructions of Mendini, the polystyrene sculptures of Beaurin or the cotton thread sculptures of Domercq.