Press release - MiniMasterpiece Gallery - Gold by Claude Lévêque and Pablo Reinoso - EN

1. Gold by Claude Lévêque
and Pablo Reinoso
Exhibition from 10 October to 22 November 2014
Vernissage on Thursday 9 October, 6 to 8 p.m.
Press Release
GALERIE MINIMASTERPIECE
Claude Lévêque, VENIN, Necklace in 18k yellow gold, edition of 10 + 2 AC, 2014. Photo: Yann Delacour

2. Gold by Claude Lévêque and Pablo Reinoso
Around this theme of Gold, the MiniMasterpiece Gallery has invited two prominent figures of
contemporary art and design to bring their monumental work down to the scale of jewellery.
Pablo Reinoso, Franco-Argentinian artist and designer, is the
author of the famous “spaghetti bench”, whose creation
started in 2006. Exhibited both by major design houses (such
as Carpenters workshop) and numerous galleries around the
world, Reinoso questions with pertinence the boundaries of
art and design. For his first collaboration with
MiniMasterpiece Gallery, Reinoso has developed a set of 8
sculptures to wear in yellow gold, each taking on the
challenge of revisiting on a smaller scale the meandering of
his monumental reflections.
Claude Lévêque, French visual artist of international fame (and
who represented France at the Venice Biennale in 2009), has
drawn inspiration from his work on writing for the creation of his
first art jewellery, the necklace entitled Venin (Venom). Neon, one
of his favourite materials, is thus transformed into yellow gold
thread. Close to alternative cultures, including the punk
movement, his work challenges the blind acceptance of the
established order – a poetic irreverence to be found already in
the very title of the necklace.
Photo : 表紙 Kiriyama Tsuyoshi Takahashi
Photo : Studio Pablo Reinoso

3. Pablo Reinoso
SPAGHETTI
Earrings in 18k brushed yellow gold, edition of
10 + 2AC, 2014
Photo : Mathieu Ferrier
Pablo Reinoso
FRAME
Pendant in 18k brushed yellow gold,
edition of 10 + 2AC, 2014
Photo : Yann Delacour

4. The MiniMasterpiece Gallery
The MiniMasterpiece Gallery –
created in the Spring of 2012 by
Esther de Beaucé – is the first
Parisian gallery exclusively
dedicated to the edition and sale
of jewellery by contemporary
visual artists and designers.
Art jewellery, in the same way as
a painting or sculpture, is a work
of art.
Born of the same creative
process, it possesses the same
force, poetry, provocation and
sometimes humour. They differ
only in their destination.
The aim of the gallery is to invite
renowned contemporary artists
and designers to come up with
new and exclusive jewellery
projects. Those who have so far
worked directly with the gallery
include the artists François
Morellet, Lee Ufan, Bernar Venet,
Barthélémy Toguo, Claude
Lévêque, Vera Molnar, Françoise
Pétrovitch, Pablo Reinoso, Sophia
Vari, and Miguel Chevalier, and
the designers Constance Guisset,
François Azambourg, and Cédric
Ragot.
Yann Delacour, artist, sculptor
and photographer, has created
the visual identity of the
MiniMasterpiece Gallery.
He designs and creates all the
scenographic layouts at the
gallery and at art shows (Design
Basel, Art Paris, etc.).

5. Esther de Beaucé
Born in Paris in 1976, she launched the MiniMasterpiece Gallery based on her observation
that Paris lacked a house dedicated to the edition of art jewellery – the idea being to
continue, modestly, this parallel and intimate history of art in miniature initiated in the early
twentieth century by Picasso, Derain, Calder, etc.
Feeling sure that contemporary French artists and designers would not be approached by
foreign editors with as much determination as by a French editor, Esther de Beaucé chose
to give free rein to this passion, nurtured since childhood by her mother, Diane Venet, great
collector of art jewellery and editor of several publications on the subject.
Previously, Esther de Beaucé had created and co-directed the Schirman & de Beaucé gallery
from 2005 to 2012, located in the Marais district of Paris and dedicated to the promotion of
emerging visual artists. It was in this way that she developed her talents in the domain of
artistic production and distribution.
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Exhibition from 10 October to 22 November 2014, Tuesday to Saturday, from 10 a.m to 6 p.m.
Vernissage on Thursday 9 October from 6 to 8 p.m.
GALERIE MINIMASTERPIECE - Esther de Beaucé
16 rue des Saints Pères - 75007 Paris - T: +33 (0)6 62 01 63 06 -
www.galerieminimasterpiece.com
© Yann Delacour