Avec la complicité de l’architecte d’intérieur Edouard Hoffmann, Blandine Chambost investit un appartement parisien et fait dialoguer un ensemble d’oeuvres contemporaines dans un décor haussmannien.  BROKEN CLOUDS met en lumière et en espace le travail de deux artistes sur le volume, dans lequel la matière est traitée en trompe-l’oeil. L’étonnante légèreté des sculptures murales de Stevens Dossou-Yovo apporte un contrepoint aux formes facettées de Ruth Gurvich. Selon les traitements, l’acier devient ciel ou se fond avec le mur, tandis que le papier se métamorphose en porcelaine.

Blandine Chambost and interior designer Edouard Hoffmann joined forces to showcase the work of two contemporary artists in a classic Paris apartment. BROKEN CLOUDS focused on these artists’ approach to materials as volume and trompe l’oeil. Sculptor Stevens Dossou-Yovo works steel into airy murals. The metal is given various surface treatments,  therefore producing various illusions. Now raw, now oxidised, now lined with digital prints or coated with white, the compositions either morph into expanses of sky or fuse with the wall, adding a new dimension to the space. Ruth Gurvich also experiments with compression and volume, using paper as her prime medium. She makes pressed and folded paper sculptures; she also designs paper vessels which are translated into fine-grain porcelain. While some of her pieces are bare, letting the beauty of the material and its design speak for themselves, others are ornate, revisiting the tradition of Chinese and Dutch ceramics.