Graphic and industrial designer, illustrator and painter, Nathalie Du Pasquier (Bordeaux, 1957) was one of the original co-founders of Italian design and architecture collective Memphis (see also our previous posts dedicated to Gerald Taylor and Tiger Takeishi). With Memphis, she contributed...

What a way to start the Guest Blog for 2012! Thank you so much to Beci Orpin for allowing us into her world for a week- I’m not sure I want to leave! Congratulations to the 5 lucky winners of Beci’s new book ‘Compendium of Me‘ – Meghan C, Jiah, Philippa, Sally F and Mal …

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American Apparel has collaborated with artist Nathalie Du Pasquier to create a collection of clothing using new prints inspired by her work with 1980s design collective, Memphis.

Nathalie Du Pasquier's paintings depict the dazzling complexity of simple things. ​A founding member of the legendary Memphis Group in Milan during the early 1980s, Du Pasquier abandoned her work as a designer in 1987 and dedicated herself exclusively to painting.Since 2012, Du Pasquier’s work has become increasingly abstract, blurring the borders between painting and model, haptic and optic, representation and the real. Beginning with two of her most recent paintings, made in her Milan…

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After several travels that brought her among other places to West Africa, Nathalie Du Pasquier settled in Milan in 1979. She worked there as a fabric

“Between the outside and the inside, between the external and the internal edge-line, the framer and the framed, the figure and the ground, form and content, signifier and signified.... ”Jacques Derrida, The Truth in PaintingIn her youth, Nathalie Du Pasquier once imagined becoming a sign painter—a “peintre en lettres” as she put it—working outdoors, carefully rendering the lettering on storefronts or the sides of cars. Du Pasquier has long gravitated toward places where painting intersects…