In a time driven by a race for novelty in the worlds of visual arts, fashion, and design, Christian Astuguevieille brings a welcome breath of fresh air with his approach that precisely affirms a dual demand for tradition and modernity. Take a pause. Look, understand, and reinvent the perceptible. To this unstable concept where questions necessarily take precedence over certainty, he offers the dual approach of an artist—alternately a graphic designer and a sculptor—and a creator of polymorphic objects.
Christian Astuguevieille (né en 1946)
Centor Cen 3402
Estimate: 6000 / 9000 €
In an era of media display and the cult of commercial signature, he still knows how to create for others when the experience seems enriching to his own development. While the issue of use competes with subservience to the consumer, he claims the choice of giving a soul to everything and thinking of luxury as absolute freedom. Balancing on all these threads, he appears to his contemporaries as the unique initiator of a true universe where the foundational concept of hidden/shown, silent/revealed, signed/delegated triumphs. Everything here is therefore double, magnificently double.
Christian Astuguevieille (né en 1946)
Rhinokerôs – 3/8
Estimate: 10000 / 15000 €
The art of Christian Astuguevieille is thus made of foundational paradoxes. Each of his adornments, each of his pieces of furniture, objects, books, drawings, and of course, his perfumes, also induces sharing and invites encounters. His experience with children's workshops in the early days of the Centre Pompidou was undoubtedly foundational because it was precisely based on this exchange, without which there is nothing that remains from this passing of the baton between the facilitator and his audience. It was probably there that the foundational act of this theater of revelation took place, which, in Christian Astuguevieille, rests entirely on the principle of concealment. Here, clearly, to hide is to tempt, to cover is to question, to conceal is to seduce. Nothing is imposed, and the spectator always has a place in this role-playing game animated by all the senses. The magician vanishes to give a better view, by covering he reveals both the object and our relationship to the object.
Bruno Gaudichon
Chief Curator
Roubaix, La Piscine – André Diligent Museum of Art and Industry
Christian Astuguevieille (né en 1946)
Cane Cal 3304 – Prototype
Estimate: 4000 / 6000 €
