Exhbition

Exhibition from 31th May to 4th June at Gallery S.Bensimon, during Designer’s Days.

Our identities are the sum of many influences : status, group affiliation, the period and society. We are the fruit of a civilisation marked by its non-linear evolution where "accidents" of history, positive or negative, have acted significantly for every individual. Are we aware of this? Through this collection "Forming History", Tino Seubert works on the consequences of these historical events. He uses photographs of these important moments from our past, to give shape to the object : a chair, table or bench. He thus allows us to understand closely these essential moments, and become integral to the experience, plus to become aware of these enlightening acts. It's a way to make concrete things which often remain abstract, distorted in our minds : an open process of creation which has the power to gather us all together to remember our common history, our shared identity.

German-born designer Tino Seubert lives and works in Berlin, is the grandson of expelled Germans from Eastern Prussia and was raised in a small village near Nuremberg where he was born in 1986. Growing up on the countryside, he learned to work with wood and other materials on a very young age. Later he studied art and mathematics. He was educated in Bolzano (Italy) where he studied product design at the Free University followed by L'École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Decoratifs in Paris. After his studies he worked in a Paris- based contemporary art gallery where he developed a more conceptual approach to the making of objects, looking for ways to incorporating the theoretical freedom and inventiveness of contemporary art while maintaining material sensuousness and resolve.

“Forming History” Tino Seubert
From Tuesday 31th May to 4th June 2012
11am to 1pm and 2pm30 to 7pm
Gallery S.Bensimon
111, rue de Turenne
75003 Paris
Tél. 33(0)1 42 47 50 77
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