Nicolas Saint Grégoire is a French 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

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and

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. Seeking to break the boundaries between

Fine Arts In European academic traditions, fine art (or, fine arts) is made primarily for aesthetics or creativity, creative expression, distinguishing it from popular art, decorative art or applied art, which also either serve some practical function ...

and other artistic practices such as

design A design is the concept or proposal for an object, process, or system. The word ''design'' refers to something that is or has been intentionally created by a thinking agent, and is sometimes used to refer to the inherent nature of something ...

fashion Fashion is a term used interchangeably to describe the creation of clothing, footwear, Fashion accessory, accessories, cosmetics, and jewellery of different cultural aesthetics and their mix and match into Clothing, outfits that depict distinct ...

, 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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