Saint Clair Cemin, Love and Mathamatics, 2014, marble, Edition of 3
Image courtesy Paul Kasmin Gallery, press images for Zona Maco 2015
Saint Clair Cemin is another artist that we have watched for a long time. Originally from Brazil, he came to New York by way of Paris in the late 1970’s, with time spent in Egypt and Paris (again). He speaks, at last count, French, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Portuguese and English.
We love how he expresses a mastery of material and form through sculpture. According to his recent exhibition announcement at Paul Kasmin Gallery:
…An exploration of the rigor of geometry is also entrenched in Cemin’s sculpture. For him, the changeless purity of platonic forms provides a structure through which to illustrate the subconscious, itself disorderly and irrational. Cemin’s personal mythology, articulated through a diverse array of media, shapes, and scales, simultaneously pays homage to structure and embraces the inherent complexity of forms, which change and mutate ceaselessly.
Enjoy an excellent survey of Saint Clair Cemin’s work on the artist’s website here.
Saint Clair Cemin, Bianfu, 2007
Image courtesy the artist.
Saint Clair Cemin was granted carte blanche for all of the decorative features at the Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature (Museum of Hunting and Nature) in Paris, such as bas relief adorning the staircase, light fixtures and museographic furniture.
Image courtesy of Architect Design Blog
