For a long time, I have been seeking in my work to connect areas which are usually kept apart : Myth and Science, ancient and modem cultures, the useful and the symbolic, traditional materials and industrial ones. We are, at the same moment, ancient and modem, futuristic too.
How to avoid the dead ends of minimalism , neo-baroque or endless cyclical styling? I am looking to cultivate hybrid objects , to create paradoxical, allegorical, metaphorical, at times ambiguous designs.
It is not about using the past as a quotation but using it instead as a source of renewal. I would like these pieces to be uncommon; They help me to understand the world we live in...
Patrick Naggar, Paris-New York, 2007
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For a long time, I have been seeking in my work to connect areas which are usually kept apart : Myth and Science, ancient and modem cultures, the useful and the symbolic, traditional materials and industrial ones. We are, at the same moment, ancient and modem, futuristic too.
How to avoid the dead ends of minimalism , neo-baroque or endless cyclical styling? I am looking to cultivate hybrid objects , to create paradoxical, allegorical, metaphorical, at times ambiguous designs.
It is not about using the past as a quotation but using it instead as a source of renewal. I would like these pieces to be uncommon; They help me to understand the world we live in...
Patrick Naggar, Paris-New York, 2007