Wednesday, July 31, 2019

Artist of the day, July 31: Mathieu Lehanneur, a multi-disciplinary French designer (#759)

Mathieu Lehanneur (1974) is a French designer at the forefront of the international design scene. He has a multi-disciplinary approach to creativity – his projects transcend the boundaries of any one creative industry, encompassing product design, architecture, craftsmanship and technology. He is unafraid to embrace scientific methods to realise his designs, and often states that science is his biggest source of inspiration.

Lehanneur pushes the limits of design through his exploration of new technologies. For his 50 Seas exhibition, shown at Christie’s in Paris, Lehanneur created 50 ceramic disks, each one replicating the surface of the sea and painted in colours taken from images of seas around the world. Using 3-D modelling technology adapted from CGI, Lehanneur perfectly captured the liquidity of the ocean’s surface. Each ripple and trough is perfectly rendered, the light glistening over each disk as if it were reflected on the ocean itself.

His fascination with the liquid state of materials continues through his 2018 exhibition Ocean Memories. Using marble and bronze, Lehanneur created tables and benches that play with the balance between the geometric and the organic, each piece exploring the fluid transition between these two states of matter.

Lehanneur is considered one of the ‘100 World top designers and influencers’ by Wallpaper* and Surface magazines and has undertaken a number of high-profile collaborations with brands such as Nike, Kenzo, Sony and Cartier. His works can be found in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, Les Arts Decoratifs in Paris, and at the Design Museum Ghent. Lehanneur has also designed interiors for Saint-Hilaire Church in Melle, for Château Borély in Marseille, and for ArtScience in Boston.

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Mr Mathieu Lehanneur

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