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an abstract painting with different colors and shapes

“Between the outside and the inside, between the external and the internal edge-line, the framer and the framed, the figure and the ground, form and content, signifier and signified.... ”Jacques Derrida, The Truth in PaintingIn her youth, Nathalie Du Pasquier once imagined becoming a sign painter—a “peintre en lettres” as she put it—working outdoors, carefully rendering the lettering on storefronts or the sides of cars. Du Pasquier has long gravitated toward places where painting intersects…

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an image of a painting with scissors and other items on it's trays

After writing about still life paintings with chairs, we stay with still lifes for a bit. These paintings by Nathalie du Pasquier (France 1957) attract me hugely, although I can't tell you exactly why. I'll try anyway: I love the way she uses very everyday, modern objects in her work; a bottle of glue, an orange plastic bowl, a coffee cup. Her work has the same calm as Morandi's. Du Pasquier worked first as a designer and was one of the founders of the Milan based Memphis group.

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