Antoine Pierini's sculptures at Four Seasons
Antoine Pierini's magically-charged artworks are now on exhibition at the Grand-Hôtel du Cap-Ferrat (Four Seasons) until September 2024.
Masterglassmaker, designer, and glass artist, Antoine Pierini was born in Antibes, a landscape bordered by the Mediterranean Sea and the Alpine foothills, with this experience impacting his overall path and creative life. Encounters with living things, the sea, and plants form retinal memories and fleeting sensations, that Antoine Pierini transforms into signs, presenting them to us in the form of sculptures and installations to viewers.
His Landmark Trees and Reed Columns accompany this journey through the landscape, whose end is never known. Behind each saturated colour lies a magical charge, and the artist engraves his multiple writings in the glass, a kind of proto-languages reminiscent of Paul Klee's writings.
Like an oil painter working with glazes, Antoine Pierini restores depths through successive layers of glass. The style of his pieces stems in large part from the search for clean, sparing design, in keeping with nature and inspired by the creations of Constantin Brancusi, in terms of their fundamental form, and Arman, for his ability to cast objects in a new light.
Pierini combines the time-honoured art of glassmaking with modern methods to create a contemporary reinterpretation of archaeological remnants in the shape of amphoras. The artist reveals an ambivalent nature that is remarkable in its beauty yet also puzzling and proliferative.
The artist conjures a dreamlike vision of the Mediterranean that reflects Albert Camus’ Pensée de Midi, weaving essential ties between people and their solar surroundings. In a display of glassmaking prowess punctuated with irony, he explores the issue of how to live in the light without ever lapsing into “tepid thought”.
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