Hélène De Saint Lager | Aleatory Shapes
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Overview
Hélène de Saint Lager’s first solo exhibition in the US, which will feature a collection of works that reflect the beauty in nature’s random legacy.
For the past twenty years, Hélène has been paying homage to the art of chance. Rooted in thoughtful contemplation, her work attempts to reflect the forms that appear due to natural happenstance—the phenomena of fossilization or rocks with their networks of many mesmerizing minerals.
It’s these random forms that are closest to what nature gives us to see, not geometric forms, but fluid movements.
Materials and sediment are veritable obsessions. I spread layer after layer of resin and toss lightweight materials on top—dollops, shavings, bits of holographic film. Time stops. I capture and freeze it in a limpid, ice-like cube.
Through a distinctive blend of potency and airiness, her method celebrates materials in unexpected ways—suspended shapes, compositions of floating particles, pools, and layers of memories. Hélène is the first to confess to an uncontainable fascination with levels of depth.
Experience the joy of aesthetic communion. View Aleatory Shapes presented by Twenty First Gallery from Thursday, January 27 until Friday, March 25, 2022. The exhibit will feature aluminum and resin furniture, jewelry, lighting, and hand-tufted wool rugs.
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Hélène de Saint LagerAlualéatoire Chair, 2020
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Hélène de Saint LagerPuzzle Coffee Table I, 2020
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Hélène de Saint Lager3 Gold Flaques Side Table, 2020
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Hélène de Saint LagerCadre Fleurs Coffee Table, 2020
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Hélène de Saint LagerElephant Light Sculpture, 2021
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Hélène de Saint LagerBureau Fleurs, 2020
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Hélène de Saint LagerDéchiqueté Gold Mirror, 2021
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Hélène de Saint LagerTour Eiffel Side Table, 2020
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Hélène de Saint LagerMoon Gold Flaques Coffee Table, 2020
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Hélène de Saint LagerNénuphar Side Table I, 2020
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Hélène de Saint LagerGrande Alualéatoire Table with Six Chairs, 2020
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Hélène de Saint Lager9 Flaques Coffee Table, 2017
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Featured Artist
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Hélène de Saint Lager
Hélène de Saint Lager is a sculptor based in Paris, known for her distinctive pieces made from poured aluminum and polyester resin. Having studied art history at the Louvre School and worked previously in restoration, casting, metalwork, and millinery, her approach melds functionality with a painterly approach to color and form to produce her lively and surrealistic creations. In her home workshop in Ivry-sur-Seine just outside of Paris, de Saint Lager creates her crystalline resin works, which shimmer with iridescent colors and inclusions that range from metallic paper cuttings to objects such as flowers and tiny multicolored Eiffel Tower replicas, a cheeky touch that exemplifies the artist’s lighthearted and refreshingly un-self serious approach. Unafraid to engage a broad palette of forms, finishes, and stylistic diversions, her work comprises light fixtures, tables, chairs, mirrors and sculpture works that are dreamlike and plasmic, at times congealing into an alien camp aesthetic. Her fantastical bronze and aluminum furniture are made with the assistance of a metal caster and retain the signature of their liquefaction, lending a sense of lavish exuberance and delightful disequilibrium. For those bold enough to embrace them, de Saint Lager’s pieces reward the senses with their warmth, richness of materials, and luxurious abundance of color and shapes. De Saint Lager’s artistic methodology is rooted in her breadth of experience in the worlds of art and design, and her work retains a diaphanous aura all its own, while conjuring a host of visual associations and predecessors such as Fauvism, science fiction films, and assemblage art. She has been sought out by the world’s top designers including Jacques Garcia, who has commissioned her work for Schiaparelli and Hotel La Réserve in Paris, L’Institution in Lyon, and Maison Vougeot; as well as architect Peter Marino, who has placed her tables in Louis Vuitton and Christian Dior boutiques in London, New York, Hong Kong, Tokyo, and Seoul.
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