CESAR Compression of garden chairs Unique proof in metal signed Durand Ruel archive number

César BALDACCINI called CESAR ( 1921 / 1998 )

Compression of garden chairs.

Unique signed metal proof.

Altobianchi collection

Height: 60 cm

Width: 42 cm 

Depth :18 cm

Work listed in 1990 in the Archives of Mrs. Denyse Durand Ruel under number 7192.

This compression was carried out on the occasion of the exhibition – event “States of Siege” of July 20, 1990 at the La Vallada estate in l'Escarène.

“Interior designers and antique dealers, specializing in furniture, Gérard and Françoise Altobianchi have chosen the seat as the theme for the very first of a series of artistic events which will take place in the Espace Antiquités – Decoration “César de Peluet” which they created at l'Escarène.

Seduced by their idea, many contemporary artists, and among them, Altman, Arman, César, Boisgontier, Charvolen, Eppelé, Li-Mir, Nivèse, Serge III, Sosno, Villers, decided to play the game and mix their works , pre-existing or made especially for the occasion, with old and modern seats, decorative or functional, brought together by Gérard and Françoise Altobianchi.

Gérard and Françoise Altobianchi, found in the organization of a very punctual event around the theme of the seat, a natural extension to the profession which is also their passion.

It is not a question for them of carrying out a retrospective of the seat, but quite simply of gathering around a certain number of works of contemporary artists, enough old or recent pieces, always interesting, and to unite through they in an ephemeral accumulation, the past, the present, the function and the form, the craftsman and the artist.

The seat is the most “stable” element in the furniture: a seat, three or four legs, determine its form in an absolute way; stuck to man in all his functions, hygiene, rest, idleness, work, it is essential.

Originally, the shape of the seat is born from the function, it responds to a need.

Then comes the ornamentation, the creation has not only a functional goal: research of forms by the draftsman, materialized by the cabinetmaker, reworked by the sculptor, the painter, the upholsterer, all conditioned by fashion, the zeitgeist...

Finally here is the ultimate stage, the intellectual reflection of the artist on the seat: it loses its function to become an object, a surface to be viewed, a work of art. »

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