Florentine brand Bitossi continued to collaborate with artist Natalie du Pascier. Seven of its ceramic colored totems will decorate the company's offer during the Milan Furniture Salon in April.

By topic: Abstraction Natalie du Pasquier: exhibition in London

Seven totems were designed and made from May to July 2017 for the “Other Rooms” exhibition, which the Camden Arts Center in London dedicated to the work of Natalie du Pascier. At the suggestion of the curator Jenny Lomax, the exhibition, originally composed only of works on paper, was expanded to three-dimensional sculptures.

The du Pasquier collection is a collection of abstract forms - it is a kind of alter-ego of her drawings and paintings. She was born in the confrontation of design and production, quite in the spirit of the 80s. Later, this collection of ceramics began to be mass-produced, but with elements of handicraft work, using a technique that Bitossi ceramists have owned for over a hundred years.

Artist and designer Nathalie du Pasquier.

Frenchwoman Natalie du Pasquier gained fame primarily as a member of the avant-garde design group Memphis, founded by Ettore Sottsass. Continuing to create prints for textiles, furniture and decoration, since 1987 she has focused mainly on abstract painting. Still lifes occupy a special place in her work: instead of realistic objects, three-dimensional figures are placed on canvas, interacting with each other.

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Ceramic totems began with wooden sculptures. Later they were transferred to another material, ceramics by properties, but they retained their division into different geometric shapes.