Description
The Work
“Bernard Quentin what have you just done? Well I’ve simply blown up a balloon and given it life. It’s a simple envelope that takes a shape and evolves. Since I can’t represent reality as I see it, I try in fact to apprehend in a tactile manner, the intimate rhythms, even the great cosmic rhythms and all the mystery of biology.” (Interview with Bernard Quentin, INA, 1968.)
Bernard Quentin’s researches on inflatable structures led him to become the first designer of fully inflatable seats without structures in the early 1960s. In this line, he began to develop the principle ‘Molecular’ from 1966, that inflatable structures made up of the agglomeration of spheres in the manner of a grouping of atoms are capable of transforming both into furniture and into a home. The Molecular armchair is impregnated of all the life, the rhythms and the plenitude that Bernard Quentin brings to his works. It maybe expresses, better than any other work, the poetry, the magic and the futurism of this work imagined in 1966, but has had to wait till today to be produced. This innovative force as well as its incredible maturity makes it a compulsory work for the Art For All collection.
Exhibition
2021, AERODREAM, Centre Pompidou-Metz , France
2020, Le siège se révolte, Musée Saint Quentin, Yvelines, France
Edition “ART FOR ALL” by Galerie Loft Paris
1966 – Ed. 2020
Inflatable PVC furniture
H.60 x L.150 x D.112 cm
H. of the seat : 40 cm
Edition of 600 copies
Signed below
Dim. of the box : H. 23 x L. 48 x P. 27,5 cm
Inflate & Deflate Electric Air Pump inclus (230V, Type C)
Bernard Quentin and his prototype of Molecular Armchair, 1967
Additional information
Dimensions | 60 × 150 × 112 cm |
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Année | 1966 |
Matériau | PVC |
Tirages | Edition of 600 |
Signature | Signed in the mold |
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