Nicolas Saint Grégoire is a

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artist and designer born in 1983. Dividing his time between

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and

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, he is represented b
Galerie Marcel Strouk Rive Gauche
(Paris)
Cynthia Corbett Gallery
(London) an

(New York). Nicolas Saint Gregoire is working mainly with Plexiglas and

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. Seeking to break the boundaries between

Fine Arts In European academic traditions, fine art is developed primarily for aesthetics or creative expression, distinguishing it from decorative art or applied art, which also has to serve some practical function, such as pottery or most metalwork ...

and other artistic practices such as

design A design is a plan or specification for the construction of an object or system or for the implementation of an activity or process or the result of that plan or specification in the form of a prototype, product, or process. The verb ''to design'' ...

fashion Fashion is a form of self-expression and autonomy at a particular period and place and in a specific context, of clothing, footwear, lifestyle, accessories, makeup, hairstyle, and body posture. The term implies a look defined by the fashion in ...

, the work of Nicolas Saint Gregoire raises the question of the nature of a piece of art. He takes over from traditional forms of furniture (tables, chairs, lighting...) and frees them from all functional, economics or social role. Through his work, those utilitarian objects become objects of art. Starting 2009, he started drawing the repertoire of forms and motifs created by fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent to create light

sculptures Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions. Sculpture is the three-dimensional art work which is physically presented in the dimensions of height, width and depth. It is one of the plastic arts. Durable sc ...

that interrogates the status of fashion as art.Fabiociquera Intelliogence for Fashion, Art and Design: Saint Grégoire, Saint Laurent
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Exhibitions

*2013: Frimousses de Createurs - UNICEF - Petit Palais - Paris *2013: Art Southampton - Curator special project - USA *2013: Diva special project - Monaco *2012: Frimousses de Createurs - UNICEF - Petit Palais - Paris *2012: Saint Gregoire Rive Gauche, Stéphane Olivier Gallery, Paris *2011: ArtCouture. Solo Show. Gallery 27, London *2011: Nicolas Saint Gregoire, Stéphane Olivier Gallery, Paris *2011: Volta Basel, Basel *2011: Art San Francisco *2010: ArtDesign. Solo Show, Stranos, Saint-Tropez *2010: London Art Fair *2010: Art Miami *2009: Art Miami (selected to represent contemporary sculpture) *2009: Art on the Top. Solo Show. Empire State Building, New York

References

External links

Official websiteLife As a Work of Art Gallery websiteGalerie Marcel Strouk Rive GaucheThe Cynthia Corbett Gallery website
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