Mathias Kiss Paris exhibition

Decor or art? The French artist, Mathias Kiss, makes striking artworks that reflect on and question our ideas of interiors and space. From 11 May to 13 July, the Parisian gallery Armel Soyer presents three of his pieces in an installation called SANS 90 °.

In “Period Room”, SANS 90° unites and confronts three classical components of interior design: a mirror, a seat and a rug. An ongoing reflection on the fold and distortion of hard objects, he employs the Froissé mirror, an Igloo seat and the Magyar rug as sculptural objects. 

Mathias Kiss doesn’t stick to straight lines. He overlaps and spills over on purpose: the mural motif of his Banquise installation runs into the parquet flooring. He smashes and fragments a mirror returning razor-sharp reflections of our contemporary interiors. His Magyar rug, a silken angular interpretation of classical “Pointe de Hongrie” parquet flooring meets up with the Igloo seat which deploys its nine ice blue angles like a piece of broken ice floe.

Kiss’ work is representative of a new generation of scenographic artist-decorators who play with and reinterpret traditions. We are big fans of his pieces and wish we could be in Paris to experience the installation firsthand!

Galerie Armel Soyer, 19-21 rue Chapon – 75003, Paris

More info: www.armelsoyer.com