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"Interior with a lamp"
"Interior with a lamp" Tribute to David Hockney
September 2023
From September 6 to 16, Amélie du Chalard and curator Johanna Colombatti present the fourth in their series of design exhibitions, featuring a recreation of a David Hockney interior.
A copy of David Hockney's Bigger Book will be presented, thanks to the support of Galerie Lelong. Amélie and Johanna wanted to recreate this setting with contemporary pieces, most of them commissioned from French designers, and to showcase the gallery's artists, who make up all the paintings hanging on the walls. Or how art is inspired by life, and life by art.
This year's exhibition takes the form of an artistic mise en abîme, a famous painting that captures a brightly colored interior scene, which becomes a living scene through the play of a mirror effect. "Interior with a lamp" is David Hockney's famous painting, and this is the proposed reconstruction of this fabulous setting to pay a three-dimensional tribute to the genius of paintbrushes.
An exhibition with the allure of fantasized reality, because who hasn't dreamed of stepping through the looking glass and living inside a painting for a moment? This is the experience we propose here.
This scenography combines young contemporary designers who freely reinterpret the furniture and objects that populate the work, with visual artists who sometimes use trompe l'oeil to provide a more-than-real setting, or display works that will dress the space. The composition will also feature a number of vintage items, blurring the lines and opening the doors to a world suspended between two timelines.
The artists taking part in the project have paid tribute to the great genius David Hockney: Férréol Babin, Heloïse Barriol, Isabelle Beraut, Charlotte Bovy, Rémi Bracquemond, Victor Cadene, Laure Carré, Bonnie Colin, Florence Denou, Prudence Dudan, Sophie de Garam, Frédéric Heurlier Cimolai, Mathilde Labrouche, Michele Landele, Delphine de Luppé, Lena Morelli, Alexandre Benjamin Navet, Emmanuelle Roule, Sophia Taillet, Tanguy Tolila, Pierre Augustin Rose, Yosigo, with contributions from Elitis and The Socialite Family.
