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For the "Everyone to the Farm" exhibition at Le Bon Marché Rive Gauche, Paul Bert Serpette presents a vision of rural life firmly rooted in the perspective of antique hunters. Under the discerning eye of Gilbert Kann, in collaboration with Le Bon Marché, a selection has been chosen from the treasures of over 350 vendors, like harvesting, as the seasons change, what the land has to offer.
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A look back at the masterclass given by Caroline Pons and Stéphanie Duplaix at Le Bon Marché Rive Gauche last Thursday...
As part of the "Everyone to the Farm!" exhibition at Le Bon Marché Rive Gauche, Paul Bert Serpette hosted a conversation on March 18th about antique hunting and how we perceive objects. Caroline Pons, an antique dealer at Paul Bert Serpette, discussed her career…
For Borrowed , Paul Bert Serpette ventures beyond its walls. From its aisles emerge carefully selected pieces: the sculptural chairs of Bořek Šípek, the polished aluminum desk by Sven Eppendahl, the extremely rare bar set designed by Giuseppe Scapinelli. These objects leave the Paul Bert Serpette market to join, in the heart of Paris, a collective narrative, extending their primary…
Utilitarian objects, used for textile creation, African loom pulleys bear witness to a know-how that is both technical and artistic.
Indeed, beyond their mechanical function—guiding the threads and facilitating the movement of the loom—they reveal remarkable artistic creativity. Most often sculpted in wood, they present a rich iconography: a reflection of the beliefs and aesthetics of…
“I almost always paint what I fear: the
illness, death, tumors, pain
physical, everything that the poor human animal is
exposed."
For José Manuel Schmill, the essential thing is neither symbol nor allegory, but presence. His painting rejects any closed interpretation: it does not seek to explain or moralize, but to show. Raw, without sentimentality, it exposes a field of…
Slingshot : nm Hybrid object located between the tool, the weapon and the work of art.
This exhibition presents a collection of more than seventy slingshots from Africa.
Beyond their utilitarian function – mainly linked to subsistence hunting, crop protection or learning precision, slingshots are distinguished by a diversity of shapes and decorations which bear…