Kinetic Curve #5, 2023

Jacques Jarrige
Kinetic Curve #5, 2023
Hand Hammered Aluminum

144 x 35 x 35 in
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The artist imagined a waterfall, a vertical presence unfolding and capturing the ambiant energy and light.
The sculpture hangs from a cable in the ceiling allowing it to rotate slowly inviting the viewer to meditate and participate.

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Jacques Jarrige (b. 1962) is an artist who lives and works in Paris, France. His work is inspired by the art of Vlaminck, Derain, Segonzac, Rodin that were in his childhood home, and later the discovery of Henry Moore, Alexander Calder, the furniture design of George Nakashima, Alexandre Noll, and others.

Jarrige rejects a purely decorative approach and instead engages in ongoing experiments with humble, raw materials and forms. His vigorous pieces of furniture reflect the impulsivity of drawings in space, while his wood, aluminum, and brass sculptures reach new monumentality while retaining their distinctive vital purpose.

He studied architecture at the E?cole Nationale Supe?rieure des Beaux-Arts before abandoning formal education to make functional sculpted design objects. In 1991, Jarrige was invited to join Frederic de Luca’s influential Parisian avant-garde gallery En Attendant les Barbares, where his sculptural furniture and design objects attracted a devoted following in Europe. Since 2010 he has been represented by Valerie Goodman Gallery in New York, where he has had four solo exhibitions along with other shows at the Queens Museum curated by Vida Sabbaghi, The Museum of Art and Design (MAD) for his jewelry, COPE NYC in Brooklyn and Taiwan, Rockland Center for the Arts Sculpture Park (RoCA) and the Rockefeller State Park preserve in Westchester.