Bruno Schiepan
Looking for balance
MOBILES
His first opportunity to create mobiles came from Knoll France, which asked him to create an installation for the reopening of its showroom in Paris.
Bruno Schiepan had already been working with Knoll for several years on Eero Saarinen's iconic “Tulip” line, which he considered both a sculpture and an ideal medium for his painting.
For the Knoll project, Bruno Schiepan imagined that by cutting up Saarinen's Tulip chairs and armchairs, literally putting them into pieces, he would make their primary function—sitting—disappear and reinvent them in a new, useless form : the mobile.
These new creations, often monumental, were like a revelation, a synthesis of all Bruno Schiepan's aspirations.
The very definition of a mobile is balance, a fragile balance that is constantly being recomposed.
MOBILES
Among all the creations of Bruno Schiepan, the mobiles are like a culmination.
First of all, of course, car the very definition of mobile is about balance, a fragile balance that is constantly being recomposed.
But the realization of these mobiles also represents a synthesis of all his previous creations:
- by the choice of materials used, the iconic Tulip chair by Saarinen that Bruno Schiepan reinterpreted by making each time a unique piece and which is cut here to constitute the parts of the mobiles
- by the use of color and shapes that constitute the identity of Bruno Schiepan.
“Mobile is magic.
It is like a presence that is never identical, driven by the forces of a balance that is constantly called into question.
This balance, which always seeks to recompose itself, is like a metaphor for our uncertain times."
Mobile G - Wingspan 6.50 m Height 3.50 m - Cut-out Tulip armchairs and chairs
Mobile E - Cut-out Tulip armchairs- Wingspan 3.80 x Height 2.1 m
“Stealth” mobile - Placed in front of a painting of the same spirit,
it creates like a third dimension.
Mobile S - Ps Choc cut and painted - Wingspan 3.30 mx Height 1.40 m -
Mobile D - Wingspan 4.20m x Height 2.1m
Mobile U - Wingspan 2.80 / Height 1.70
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