François Mascarello Lighting
Mascarello experiments with materials and artistic techniques in order to translate into space both the potency and the fragility of manual gestures. Thanks to his extensive knowledge of material constraints, he brings to life the emotion essential to any art.
François Mascarello creates handmade wallpapers painted with oil on kraft, screens, bas-reliefs and stucco objects, sometimes enhanced with leather or straw marquetry, which evoke both the decorative arts and illumination.
Each of his ‘Wild Silk’ tapestry paintings is made in three stages. First Mascarello composes an abstract landscape on a computer, before painting it in oil on paper. This work is then converted into fabric. The thin strips of raw silk are cut, then sewn one by one by hand on silk or on white linen, using invisible stitches. The shimmering fabric thus reinterprets the painter's gesture and gives it a new dimension, at once warm, intriguing and tactile.
In François Mascarello’s words: “My painting already tended towards the abstract and quasi-choreographic movement. Today, I have added an architectural impulse, the idea being to explore all possible dimensions: from the smallest to the largest, from the deepest to the brightest, from the most elusive perspective to the most intimate line.”
The ‘Edifice’ light sculptures are both mysterious and refined micro-architectures. Handmade of immaculate white waxed stucco, they conceal an interior entirely covered in straw marquetry combining shades of blue, grey and beige. They are glowing edifices coming alive with light bouncing off of the straw marquetry and glowing through the different openings. They take on a new and different appearance depending on the angle from which they are viewed: a cubist house in the spirit of Le Corbusier or a skyscraper-like impressive vertical building.
[Biography provided by Galerie BSL]
2010s French François Mascarello Lighting
Stucco
2010s French François Mascarello Lighting
Stucco
2010s French François Mascarello Lighting
Stucco
2010s French François Mascarello Lighting
Brass
2010s French François Mascarello Lighting
Brass, Bronze
2010s French François Mascarello Lighting
Straw, Stucco
2010s François Mascarello Lighting
Aluminum
1970s German Mid-Century Modern Vintage François Mascarello Lighting
Metal
2010s French Post-Modern François Mascarello Lighting
Stoneware
Early 1900s English George III Antique François Mascarello Lighting
Ormolu
2010s Brazilian François Mascarello Lighting
Ceramic
2010s Brazilian François Mascarello Lighting
Ceramic
2010s Brazilian François Mascarello Lighting
Ceramic
2010s Italian Post-Modern François Mascarello Lighting
Fiberglass
1980s Italian Post-Modern Vintage François Mascarello Lighting
Metal
Mid-20th Century Swedish Scandinavian Modern François Mascarello Lighting
21st Century and Contemporary American François Mascarello Lighting
Blown Glass, Art Glass, Glass
1980s Italian Post-Modern Vintage François Mascarello Lighting
Metal