Presented by Villa Noailles, Nathalie Du Pasqier's Arrangements 1993-2023 focuses on drawings produced over the last 30 year of the Milan-based artist's career. Additionally, The exhibition also provides a chance to delve into the documentary film "Portrait of my sister as an artist," crafted by Judith Du Pasquier as a tribute to her sister in 2021. On view at Hôtel des Arts in Toulon Arrangements 1993-2023 was accompanied by an artist lecture at École Camondo Méditerranée, Toulon.
"Arrangements 1993-2023 is an exhibition focused on drawings and works on paper made by Nathalie Du Pasquier spanning three decades.
While for many artists drawing is primarily understood as a testing ground or blueprint for paintings, in NDP’s case the works on paper are works that stand alone.
NDP is averse to linear time and has again chosen to present the works without any chronological or thematic criteria. The show is conceived an archipelago of compositions obtained by juxtaposing drawings that, though born as only children, find themselves coexisting in extended families that enhance their meaning.
She pulled works on paper in different formats out of her drawers, some done in ink, others in colored pencil, and some others in brush, black or color. By synchronizing drawings of various techniques and times, NDP has created new polyphonic works that exist only for the duration of the show. This exhibition is thus a magical place for encounters to take place that could rarely happen elsewhere.
The works are presented without frames, as flat as the pages of the books with which the artist often enjoys experimenting.
Unlike painting, the drawings are made much more quickly, they are more casual and more adventurous. As opposed to those made when she worked with Memphis in the 1980s, these drawings are not project-based and they are
not meant to be applied to something. They are free spirits.
Besides images, the exhibition is filled with words borrowed from two French authors particularly dear to NDP: Pierre Mac Orlan and Chaval. Contrary to what we would expect, these text fragments are not intended to illustrate the images but operate on a parallel level, almost creating other images. Moreover, the texts are drawn and not printed, becoming a single visual stream."
- Villa Noailles
March 8th - April 27th, 2024.
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