France – Paris
Until September 23, fire sets the Ketabi Bourdet gallery ablaze. From Peter Klasen to Gilles Derain and Jo Fish, some twenty works combining art and design are featured in an exhibition entitled “Light My Fire”. Discover it.
As soon as we enter, Elisabeth Garouste’s Flammes en faïence sets the tone. Situated between Paolo Pallucco’s coat rack Bocca da Fuoco and artist Idir Davaine’s solar work. “A map to the Sun IV,” Vincent Bécheau and Marie-Laure Bourgeois’ chair No. 4 is besieged by flames.
In a gentler vein, artist Inès Longevial’s painting “Frosted Lemon” enters into dialogue with Mathias Kiss’s burning screen. Yellow, orange, red, blue… the four cyanotypes in Audrey Guttman’s series La douceur et la torture 1-4 highlight Philippe Starck’s metal torch – designed for the 1992 Albertville Olympic Games.
In the centre of the gallery are three small tables featuring a number of unusual ashtrays, including those by Philippe Starck and Thimothée Leclabart, and Matthew Hilton’s Arclumis candlestick. All the design objects have been meticulously selected by founders Charlotte Ketabi-Lebard and Paul Bourdet.
The “Light My Fire” exhibition bridges the past and the present, combining various creations around a common theme: fire. An exhibition to discover without further delay.
Galerie Ketabi Bourdet
22 Passage Dauphine, 75006 Paris
Open Tuesday to Saturday, 11a.m. to 1p.m. and 2p.m. to 7p.m
Marine Mimouni