Pierre Charpin
France — b. 1962
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Pierre Charpin
Pierre Charpin
Pierre Charpin
Pierre Charpin
Pierre Charpin
Pierre Charpin
Pierre Charpin
Pierre Charpin
Biography
Born in 1962 in Saint-Mandé, Pierre Charpin is a visual artist who obtained his degree from the National School of Fine Arts in Bourges (France) in 1984. In the early 1990s, he decided to concentrate on designing objects and furniture. He has since embarked upon a number of research projects with associations such as CIRVA (1998/2001) and CRAFT (2003/2005) as well as product design collaborations with internationally known design companies like Alessi, the Cristallerie Saint-Louis, Design Gallery Milano, Ligne Roset, the Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres, Pamar, Post Design, Tectona, Venini and the Wrong Shop...
Born in 1962 in Saint-Mandé, Pierre Charpin is a visual artist who obtained his degree from the National School of Fine Arts in Bourges (France) in 1984. In the early 1990s, he decided to concentrate on designing objects and furniture. He has since embarked upon a number of research projects with associations such as CIRVA (1998/2001) and CRAFT (2003/2005) as well as product design collaborations with internationally known design companies like Alessi, the Cristallerie Saint-Louis, Design Gallery Milano, Ligne Roset, the Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres, Pamar, Post Design, Tectona, Venini and the Wrong Shop.
His exclusive collaboration with the Galerie kreo started in 2005, and to this day he still creates limited edition pieces for the Galerie. Several solo exhibitions have been dedicated to his collections and organized in the parisian Galerie : « Platform » in 2006, « All’aperto » in 2008, « 8 ½ » in 2009 and « Ignotus Nomen » in 2011 and « Marbles & Clowns » in 2015 in London. Pierre Charpin has received much public recognition for his work ; in 2004 he was the prizewinner of the competition launched by the Société des Eaux de Paris (Paris Waterworks). Designed to convince Parisians of their tap water’s quality and incite them to drink more of it, his cast glass Eau de Paris water carafe was produced in a batch of 60,000. He was part of the 2005 Compass d’Oro design competition with his vase « Triplo » produced by Venini. The same year, the Paris furniture fair named him « Creator of the Year ». Pierre Charpin is also active as a set designer, in 2010 he designed the scenography of the exhibition “Mobiboom” for the musée des Arts décoratifs in Paris as well as the scenography for the third edition of « Quali Cose Siamo » in Milan’s Triennale Design Museum.
Pierre Charpin’s work is part of the most important cultural institutions : the Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, the Centre Pompidou and the musée des Arts décoratifs in Paris. In 2011, a monographic exhibition was dedicated to his work at the Grand-Hornu Images, Belgium. The exhibition was entitled « Pierre Charpin : 20 années de travail » and presented twenty years of his work. His pieces are also a part of many private contemporary art and design collections.
Parallel to his role as a designer, he has been a professor in the industrial design department at ECAL (École Cantonale d’Art de Lausanne) since 2008. In 2012, Pierre Charpin is in residence in Villa Kujoyama program framework (Kyoto).
Photo credits: © Pierre Antoine Courtesy Galerie kreoSolo Shows
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Pierre Charpin - "Similitude(s)" Short clip
Pierre Charpin - "Similitude(s)" Interview
