All of them put together are determining a large research area positioned in a narrow gap between art and design. Each project is an opportunity to experiment and precise their personal design langage. By doing so, they try to challenge the contemporary visual codes and rules of the object design feld. Their experimentations are visualized using object, furniture, sculpture, image and drawing. They disrupt the seriality of production by creating a mash-up of low design and craft interventions. This position especially make them answering to professional assignments as much as self-initiated projects with a critical approach toward modes of production and representation. Through those mediums, they express their interest for the use of art pieces as objects and designed objects as art pieces. To do so they are experimenting with collage and domestic familiarity of sculpture. They explore the concept of mental furniture, midway between functional sculpture and nonfunctional design. After seven years of training in product/object design, they now use this discipline as a medium to question its aesthetic conventions and defne their own plastic language. The two designers met eleven years ago, while studying at applied-arts school in Nevers (FR), where they bonded over a shared skepticism regarding the product driven nature of their design education. Messgewand is a collaborative practice based between Lyon (FR) and Amsterdam (NL). Romain Coppin and Alexis Bondoux are two freelance designers, who regularly work together under the name of Messgewand (which is german for “chasuble” a word which, in French, not only means a priestly vestment but also a colorful sporty tank top). He founded and curated "Dix-sept murs et une fenêtre", the first online show of On / Off Gallery, a digital artist-run space. In 2020, Clérino notably participated in the 69th edition of Jeune Création at the Fiminco Foundation, in Recyclage/Surcyclage, at the Villa Datris Foundation, and in Wearables, at Etage Projects, Copenhagen. In 2019, he presented his first solo show in France, "Et si on passait les meubles par la fenêtre?", at the Double V Gallery in Marseille, in the spring, as well as his first solo show in Paris, "Que Devons Nous Y Faire", at Galerie Chloe Salgado, Paris in the autumn. In 2018, after a new solo exhibition, "Emulsilfy(ing)", at the Castellana 22 gallery in Madrid, he was nominated for the International Painting Prize of Vitry-sur-Seine. In 2017, he presented his first solo exhibition, "Voir au verso", at Les Gens Heureux gallery in Copenhagen. He developed a multidisciplinary practice, challenging the academic definition of painting and combining photography, drawing, sculpture, ceramics, textiles, and installation. He graduated from the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2016. Côme Clérino (1990, Paris) lives in Paris and works in Pantin, France.
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