Lionel Jadot, Prisma Flight II, BE, 2024

Lionel Jadot, Prisma Flight II, BE, 2024
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While not easily categorized by a singular style, Jadotโ€™s work could most easily be recognized by his affinity for repurposed materials and his deft eye at creating harmony and balance out of the collision of disparate elements.ย The principle of reclamation has been relevant to Jadot from a young age. As a child in his fatherโ€™s workshop, Jadot developed a keen attraction and respect for materials, coveting the bits of scrap wood and leather that would accumulate around the floor and had been deemed โ€œfair game.โ€ Today this manifests as both a philosophical and aesthetic tenet to his work. Manipulating materials that have been salvaged permeates the works with a sense of character, history, and humanity.

Working from a near photographic mental library of materials and influences, he is at once artist, tinkerer, and inventor. He explains, โ€œWhat interests me is ideas passingย though memory, and the influences mixing.ย Culture meeting subculture, mixing genre โ€“ from memory. I filled notebooks of ideas and with this approach I decided to achieve all that was in my notebooks. It is an exciting job; itโ€™s more an expression, free of any constraints. But it is also a free reflection on design and art, and this fragile border that I love to cross in both directions.โ€

Wood, Sheet Metal
29h x 83w x 49d in
73.66h x 210.82w x 124.46d cm

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