Renaissance : Bardula shines again
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Renaissance : Bardula shines again
After New York, The four meters tall monumental art pieces, which form a pair,
each installed permanently for Moncler, has been created through
Bardula has been commissioned successions of golden metal blades producing a kinetic volume
constructed from curves, changing as the viewer moves around them.
by Moncler to design two shining
installations for the brand’s Within this volume, the arithmetic progression of the layers follows
an exponential movement based on oval curves, magnifying the
Stockholm and Mexico stores. objects with an undulating lighting scenario.
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Bardula’s work examines, on the The artistic concept of the artworks created by Bardula functions as a
narrative reinterpretation of the Renaissance.
basis of a mathematical, geometric
As a tribute to the Renaissance’s humanist ideas the artwork serves
framework, the relationship between as a representation of Man and his ability to discover, understand and
kinetic progression, matter’s volume create - the quintessence of the expertise Man has acquired since the
discovery of tools through the mastery of fire and metal as key factors
and light, through 3D, laser and in the history of our civilizations.
LED-technology. The human shaped object at the heart of this artwork, which covers
and protects a human being, is a symbolical reminder of the famous
drawing of a man in the centre of a circle inscribed in a square. Here,
in the installations named Renaissance, a volume made of a sphere
inscribed in a cube, both stretched, represents the anthropomorphic
position of mankind, centred in its environment.
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This installation, by using an object first created to fulfil the most primitive need: protection from the
elements, is a consecration of this very object for what it represents- our instinctive ability to tame and
adapt to what surrounds us – and, therefore, a tribute to mankind’s intelligence, creative talent and skill.
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Renaissance also means rebirth: The artworks are made of golden aluminium blades forming together a suspended
oval space within a rectangle volume. Light made of white LED of different
the stretching of the oval shape temperatures, from cold bluish to the warmest amber, shines through a succession
of expanding oval shapes in the back and along the blades.
represents a heart in gestation,
which radiates energy, symbolizing They follow the blades’ geometrical progression in an ever-changing luminous
expanding movement, enhancing its kinetic construction with a variation of
the eternal rebirth of mankind different white lights, reflecting in metal and revealing bronze, copper or deep
through future generations. amber gold shades.
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Manufacturing : Michel Delarasse - LED: KKDC – Light programming : Otomis – Photos (Mexico) : Anne Charlotte
Guinot - Photos (Stockholm) : Bardula.
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ABOUT BARDULA is a pseudonym, created by a Belgian artist born in Zürich and based
in Brussels until 1993, New York until 2002, and Paris ever since. Bardula studied
silversmithing at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts of Antwerp, Belgium.
Since 2012, Bardula has collaborated with an architect whom she met in Paris
shortly after her return from New York in 2002.
With a degree in architecture from the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, it was his
attraction to scenographic 3D modelling and light that would lead, following a stint
at Ora-ïto, to the gradual coincidence of his world with that of Bardula, giving birth
to a conceptual and technological symbiosis.
Bardula’s work is now the result of the creative fusion of two artists, a silversmith
and an architect. Bardula’s work is designed and produced at their studio in the
south of Paris.
Bardula is represented
• In Switzerland by Galerie La Ligne, Zurich
• In the UK by Kinetica, London
• In Italy by Valmore Studio d’Arte, Vicenza
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COMPLETED PROJECTS
Series of light installations for the Baccarat Hotel, New York, architects Skidmore, Owings & Merrill,
in collaboration with interior designers Gilles & Boissier, 20 West 53rd Street, NYC, 2015
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COMPLETED PROJECTS
« Art Cinétique/Light Show » alongside Vasarely, Le Parc, Cruz-Diez, Morellet, Yvaral and Vardanega, Solo exhibition at the KKDC gallery, space by architect Joseph Dirand, Paris, 2016
at Piasa, rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, Paris, 2015
Art Paris Art Fair 2016, 2017, 2018 at Galerie La Ligne Grand Palais, Paris Monumental kinetic light installation in the entrance of the largest US Moncler flagship store in
collaboration with interior designers Gilles & Boissier at 650 Madison Avenue, NYC, 2016
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COMPLETED PROJECTS
« Invisible Realm », an exhibition curated by Kinetica at Lauren Baker Contemporary, London, 2018 Solo exhibition of recent works at Galerie La Ligne, Zurich, 2017
ArtVerona, alongside Hugo Demarco, François Morellet, Dario Perez Flores, Paolo Scirpa, Joël Stein, Yvaral, at Valmore Studio d’Arte, Verona, Italy, 2018
BARDULA | Press release | ParisPROJECTS TO COME • Exhibition curated by Kinetica at Sketch, London, December 2018
• « 100% » : exhibition at Galerie La Ligne, Zurich, February 2019
• Kinetic light installation for the Moncler Moscow window on the Red Square,
Spring 2019
• Art Paris Art Fair 2019, at Galerie La Ligne, Grand Palais, Paris, April 2019
• Solo exhibtion at Valmore Studio d’Arte, Vicenza, Italy, May 2019
CONTACTS BARDULA Studio
www.bardula.com
spectrum@bardula.com
www.facebook.com/BardulaStudio
+33(0)6 23 54 32 08
Press Office
Véronique Cellier +33(0)6 83 82 35 56
www.hirondellecommunication.fr
veronique@hirondellecommunication.fr
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