ABEL CARCAMO - MAARTEN VROLIJK

Born in 1990 in Santiago de Chile, furniture and object designer, Abel Càrcamo finds his identification through the artisanal processes. The inspiration and the mixture of temporalities that he has been able to combine with different trades of the Chilean local handicrafts, has allowed him to generate a direct link between a traditional aesthetic and a minimalist one.

Since leaving his native Chile where he trained, Abel Cárcamo has spent a year and a half researching, inventing, experimenting, dealing with the lack of confidence and anxiety that this complete change of landmarks has caused. Having laid a clean slate of his achievements and working methods as a result of his move to France, he began to reflect on the creation of a new universe. For the first time, his artistic creation is closely linked to his personal life experience, freed from his prejudices and landmarks on what are space and time, the beautiful and the ugly, the rich and the poor, success and failure. Now settled in Paris, he experiments and completes his objects with drawings and plaster sculptures, to generate a closer link between idea, concept and material.

Since his childhood, Maarten has been fascinated by nature and the so-called ordinary things, which we pass by every day, but which become objects of fascination for him. He remembers the cherry tree in his parents' home, which blossomed and then turned into a shower of petals before bearing fruit. This show will notably influence his work in the Sakura series.

What interests him is not so much to imitate nature as to question a new form of image, where his fascination becomes tangible and is embodied in another reality, bringing a new creation to the existing.

Maarten Vrolijk, born in Oss in 1966 and living in Amsterdam, considers it important to create on the simple, unequivocal nature of an object. His artistic language, whether in his work with blown glass or painting, is unusual because he plays with shapes, colors and materials in a non artificial way. He evokes the unexpected.

Many of his works have been acquired or exhibited in international museums including the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, the Museum of Modern Art, New York and the Groninger Museum.