| profile: Natalie Guez - Sculptural Furniture |
| Professional Affiliation : TAC (The Arts Club) |
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| Website: www.nathalieguez.com |
| Phone:514 583-9778 |
BIOGRAPHY |
Although born in Paris, Nathalie Guez spent half of her life in Israel before moving permanently to Montreal in 2003, where she creates functional art, specializing in seating. She has participated in several exhibitions and contests all over the world, including Paris, Milan, Valencia, Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Montreal and Quebec, and her work has been featured on ARTV. All of her pieces are made in Quebec by carefully chosen Quebecois craftsmen who are as passionate about their work as she is. Conceived in a style that has been years in the making, Guez’s works are pure, modern, and poetic. She discovered seating to be the best medium to express her reflections on human being, for it is the piece of furniture that most resemble the human body. Her goal is to confer a soul, an identity that is lost in industrial design, into her functional art. Her chairs are always stylized, juxtaposing round and straight forms, warm and cold colors, purified and sober lines, to reach a sexual balance between the feminine and masculine and become a suggestive, pure work of art. The simplicity that emanates from their lines, expressions of nobility and grace, finds completion in the grandeur of their backs. If the original art of Nathalie Guez transcribes the amusing perspective with which she perceives life, the elegance of her works reveals her love and respect for human beings and the world. Her symbolic approach gives her work all its power of evocation and leaves it open to all interpretations. Her works can easily become a part of our everyday life because the comfort and the ergonomics remain as important as the aesthetics. Learn more about her functional, poetic, contemporary, and unique small series furniture here on this website. |
| EXHIBITIONS SOFA Chicago (Sculptural Objet and Functional Art) Represented by the William Zimmer Gallery Johnston Casuals Furniture USA Design of the JC new line of “Furniture As Art” SOFA Santa Fe (sculptural Object and Functional Art) Represented by the William Zimmer Gallery Workshop lecture about chairs by Nathalie Guez Westmount Artnow club for artists and collectors « MAC » Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art « Garage’s sale» (« Vente de garage ») Exhibition - Publication Broadcast of a TV show made on Guez work – « Garage’s sale » («Vente de garage») TV show. Arts and Crafts show – Montréal « Garage’s sale » exhibition Victoria hall gallery’s 10th anniversary « Meublémouvants » Materia center Exhibition event Québec Furniture exhibition at the Bonsecours market – Créa Gallery Arts and Crafts council of Canada. SIDIM – (Montreal international interior design show) Limited editions space. Victoria hall gallery Duo exhibition “Blue Gold” Exhibition Environmental art exhibition. Art Westmount 2008 Westmount open doors studios Premio Magistretti – De Padova’s contest (Milan, Italie) Exhibition for the french Cie M-Top. (Paris, France) « Grand prix de la création » contest (Paris, France) One of a kind furniture pieces for the City Hall Exhibition (Châtillon, France) National sculpture contest (Tel-Aviv, Israël) Furniture exhibition - Ramat Aviv mall. (Tel-Aviv, Israël) Rihutim - Exhibitions parc (Tel-Aviv, Israël) Israel Museum « Crate and Barel »’s contest (Jerusalem, Israël) F.I.M Feria International Di Mueble (Valence, Espagne) Exhibitions parc (Tel-Aviv, Israël) GRANTS and COLLECTIONS : 2011 Sodec 2010 Sodec « Ethnic Flower » Private collection « The Take off » for Artv ARTICLES AND PUBLICATIONS 2011-12 Publication on the Meublemouvants exhibition – ( to come) 30-03-2011 Canadian Jewish News – by Heather Salomon 05-10-2010 Workshop lecture about chairs by Nathalie Guez Westmount Artnow – For artists and collectors 16-08-2010 Westmount independent – by Heather Black 27-01-2010 « Vente de garage » ARTV- producers Bernard Hébert, and Renée Claude Riendeau 4x30mn. 01-01-2010 Magazine « Chez soi »by Nicole Charest. 18-09-2009 Journal de Montréal – Cover « Votre maison » by Christian Lavigne 04-06-2009 Voir – Cahier « La ville » - by Alain Hochereau 30-05-2009 The Gazette – cahier « Week-end life » by Susan Semenak 14-04-2009 Westmount independent – by Heather Black 14-04-2009 La presse Montréal – cahier « Mon toit » by Marie-France Léger 21-10-2008 Westmount independent – 23-10-2008 Réseau canoë – internet only – by Virginie Roy. http://www2.canoe.com/infos/environnement/archives/2008/10/20081023-134903.html 2001 Selected by hebrew magazine « Binyan Vediur » as one of 17th most promessing young israeli designer. E-PRESS: 2010 « The Take Off » ordered by ARTV. 2009 artv’s clip available on youtube. MEMBERSHIP 2010-11 the furniture Society 2009-11 Materia center – Distribution and artists center for Arts & Crafts. EXPERIENCES 1992 Architecture – Ort Oliesky – Jerusalem, Israel 1993 Graphics – Ort – Jerusalem, Israel 1994 sculpture – With the Israeli sculptor Zeev Primor. Jerusalem, Israel |