Pierre Charpin et Nathalie Du Pasquier — Andiamo — Le Crédac, Centre d’art contemporain d’Ivry — Exhibition — Slash Paris

In about 1 month: January 18 → March 22, 2026

The exhibition Andiamo brings together the works of Pierre Charpin and Nathalie Du Pasquier.

She is a painter, he is a designer.

In 1987, Nathalie Du Pasquier (1957) decided to devote herself fully to painting. A few years earlier, she had moved to Milan and, in 1981, took part in the founding of Memphis: a collective of “irreverent” designers advocating a sensual and stimulating design, breaking away from minimalist and functionalist forms.

That same year, 1987, Pierre Charpin (1962) saw his very first object published.

Born into a family of artists living in Ivry-sur-Seine, he studied at the Beaux-Arts in Bourges within the art department, where he discovered the “mischievous” design of Alchimia and Memphis. The hyper-colored design of these two Milanese movements opened up a new field of expressive possibilities for him.

Nathalie Du Pasquier and Pierre Charpin became friends in the mid-1990s. Objects, the love of drawing, forms, colors, and surfaces are their meeting ground.

The exhibition conceived for the Crédac is a dialogue between their two universes.

It sidesteps codes and expectations: no chronology, no hierarchy, no classification or distribution. It places their respective works under a new lens, playing with formal or semantic relationships.

Self-taught, Nathalie Du Pasquier trained herself through travel, cultural encounters, and observation. Her work is made from the sheer pleasure of painting and drawing, guided by intuition and collage, like thoughts layered upon one another. Over time, the artist replaced the everyday objects she painted in her early years with pure, abstract forms, sometimes inspired by wooden constructions that she builds and then paints on canvas. Her work brings together flat surfaces and volumes in a constant back-and-forth between two- and three-dimensional space.

These paintings, which aspire to no other reality than their own, are well known to Pierre Charpin.

For him, everything begins with drawing. His drawings are made with an economy of means and do not seek to represent a form — they are forms. They nourish his design, which is above all a research into elemental archetypal figures, proportions, and colors, before becoming a question of material.

Pierre Charpin designs sculptural objects marked by restraint — pared down but never austere — whose poetry stems from the pencil stroke that brought them into being.

The exhibition brings together works from all periods of the two artists’ careers. Combining paintings, installations, and objects, it creates for this occasion new configurations; their works occupy the space. They form a joyful and colorful landscape in which attributions blur and celebrate the gestures and the friendship of the two creators.