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Mirror Multitude

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2022

Immersive Art Installation designed for STROMAE

Aluminum and wood. 80 sqm

Rogier STIB station, Brussels, Belgium.

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dimensions :

3,5 meters x 20 meters

STROMAE x ARNAUD LAPIERRE 

Artistic work commissioned by STROMAE for the release of his new album. He asked the renowned French designer and artist ARNAUD LAPIERRE, whose work was spotted by the singer and the agency DIGIZIK.

In order to collaborate and take up the challenge of imagining an installation allowing to live a particular experience in relation with the new opus.

MIRROR MULTITUDE

A visual experience inspired by the new album MULTITUDE by STROMAE, this installation invites you to an immersive and sensory advance in a 15-meter mirror-like corridor to discover the diversity of our reflections. This installation takes place in the ROGIER metro in Brussels thanks to the partnership of the STIB.

The more you advance towards the point, the more the space will open and widen, proposing a virtual paradigm; in which an echoing universe is revealed; to apprehend the multitude of our appearances.

The experience is counter-intuitive, the human being is not programmed to advance towards a corner, the more one advances, the more the reflections multiply. In the end we discover that all our reflections are different.

The goal is to engage the visitor in an emotion, in an action, to provoke a sensation, it's an engagement.

Bathed in music, let yourself wander out of time, in a rhythmic repetition of your image.

MIRROR MULTITUDE is a living and contemplative immersion, a multiplied introspection.

No question here of remaking the cover of the excellent album Multitude of the artist, but to appropriate the work

This work is realized in partnership with the STIB, Universal Music Belgium and DIGIZIK for the release of the new album of STROMAE.

https://www.stromae.com

https://www.arnaud-lapierre.com

https://digizik.com

http://stib-mivb.be

https://universalmusic.be

From March 4 to March 21, 2022.

Project Manager : Charlotte Scheldje + DIGIZIK

TOAST MASTER

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2020

Design installation

Robotic industrial arm, copper, oak.

For LOUIS XIII, Cognac, France.

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How to highlight a toasting ritual & showcase a sound identity in an immersive and memorable animation for a brand of Cognac?

The studio specializing in the design of immersive experiences, was commissioned two years ago with a unique partnership, to propose a striking concept on a particular challenge: to highlight the ritual of toasting by bringing to life the authenticity of the « signature glasses » of the prestigious brand of Louis XIII cognac.

DESIGN MAKES SENSE.

When two Louis XIII crystal glasses toast, they produce a very specific note: a clear and deep G sharp.

For the studio, the project had several inputs and objectives: to emphasize the delicate aesthetic of the glasses, to evoke the magic of a ritual as evanescent as a musical note, and to project the brand in its permanent desire for innovation : THINK A CENTURY AHEAD.

It was therefore important to evoke a gesture and to encapsulate this celebration in a haptic device, creating a surprising, captivating extraordinary event, in order to create a sound memorization of the brand: ringing the future and the century to come.

First, the use of an automatic robot arm was the keystone of our installation to materialize a concept of visual innovation and sound prospective. Robotics and artificial intelligence are rooted in a visionary symbols of the future; an obvious material to work on for this artistic installation and anchor itself in the brand platform.

ART IS SMART.

It was a question of putting in tension the perfect delicacy of the glasses, their crystalline subtlety against the imposing mechanics & the advanced technology of industrial robots to amplify with contrast the refinement and delicacy of the crystal. This strong opposition creates a curious echoing harmony, a counterbalance that testifies to the gestural refinement that a robot arm can bring in a precise and extraordinary ballet.

LOUIS XIII is a visionary brand, both stowed in its time while projecting itself into the future. Its cognac develops during a very long maturation process and spreads through the centuries.

This vision of innovation, projected in time, results in the theatricalization & choreography of industrial robotic arms, personalized & programmed to embody the brand DNA.

 The installation allows you to approach the impressive perfection of machine tools, to project yourself into a memorable spectacular imagination, to observe a hypnotic dance in a duet; like two people celebrating the passion for cognac: a toast for the coming century.

EMOTION CREATES MEMORY.

The project's mission was to anchor emotional memory by respecting the brand's vision while supporting this prestigious brand to embody their sound identity as a memorable signature.

This installation crystallizes connivance through the surprise of an unexpected choreography, and projects an inspiring future to iconize the brand with the fleur de lys.

The multidisciplinary studio Arnaud Lapierre is constantly on the lookout for meaningful intervention that generate a new way of perceiving our society, motivated by innovative solutions, we help the transformation of a brand image into a brand identity.

From mid-2020, the unique TOAST MASTER robot arm installation will be on display in LOUIS XIII stores first in Singapore, Beijing and Xi’an, and then travel the world.

VIDEO:

The device was featured in the

One Note Prelude video composed by Yaron Herman for Louis XIII.

Extract Video courtesy of LOUIS XIII, One Note Prelude by Yaron Herman, 2020.

Credits: One Note

Creative Agency: FF Los Angeles

Chief Creative Officers: Fred & Farid

Production Company: NoSide

Director: Arnaud Gransagne

Producers: Remi Sello and Morgan Prêleur

Editor: Bissan Kim

Composer/pianist: Yaron Herman

Robot Styling & Installation concept & Artistic Direction : Arnaud Lapierre Design(s) Studio

RISE

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2023

Art Installation designed for RARE CHAMPAGNE

Aluminum, steel, concrete

Hotel Alfred Mercier. Paris

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dimensions :

5,5 meters x 6 meters

SAPIN VERRE

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2021

Permanent Art Installation

Recycled glass, steel from local architectural waste

Place Pey Berland, Bordeaux, France

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dimensions :

11 meters x 5 meters in diameter

TRANSLATE AN ICON :

Production: Metallerie Bordelaise / Press Citron

Client: Bordeaux City Hall

"Sapin Verre" is a creative representation of the traditional Christmas tree. The work decodes the formal (a cone) chromatic (an iridescent emerald green) textured (with an octagonal shape and ridges) characteristics of the tree to translate this icon into a visual experience to live.

Above all, it is an immersive work, where everyone can observe a set of mirrors that reflects every architectural detail of the square and the cathedral.

This iridescent mirror installation is a work of evocation, it is not a question of reproducing a semblance of reality but on the contrary to sublimate everyday phenomena and to offer a new perception.  The references to the Christmas tree are radical geometric codes, which offer a unique symbolic game of perception to re-enchant the vision of our environment, capturing visual emotions in their most fleeting aspects.

The specificity of a work of art is to introduce emotional experiences by questioning its context: what do we want to evoke? for what purpose? for what sensation? how to create a contact or a distance? how to question the existing and to give it a second skin? the immersive projects allow to detach oneself for a moment from reality to confront one's body, one's senses, one's mind, to a new perspective.  It is about creating surprise and astonishment to establish a dialogue with our own references and cultures.  Art, design and creation are invitations to dialogue.

This Installation is not a work of comparison but of confrontation, it is a question of disobeying fixed looks to discover new evocations, paradoxes or paradigms. This structure of 11 meters obeys these rules, to be inspired by what exists, to evoke a theme, without ever falling into the reproduction or the system. To create; it is to open the eyes, to confront oneself.

The eye first observes the iconic silhouette of the tree in its entirety to finally look at fragments of the city, unstructured visions of the environment that surrounds us. The work proposes a visual immersion.

It is also an intimate work since it offers a mosaic of our own body.

Everyone will be able to make the moment their own by capturing the slightest change in the mood of the day in the hue of the mirrors, focusing on Pey Berland's most delicate details. The mirror will capture every variation of light from the sky and the activity of the square, it is a living work, chameleon-like, that takes on the mood of the day: from green to blue, from yellow to grey. At night, its silhouette and outline disappear in favor of a luminous scenography, that lets the one-way mirrors show through, to celebrate the end of the year festivities. The work invites to an observation day and night, of its living transformation.

WHY NOT A REAL TREE?

"Sapin Verre" takes into account the environmental impacts of the design and development and integrates the environmental aspects throughout its life cycle: from the raw material with recycled and 100% recyclable elements, its life span while passing through a manufacturing, a local logistics within a radius of 40 km around Bordeaux.

The work made of recycled glass from the architectural waste industry and a structure composed of steel easily recyclable, will be reused over several years, limiting and amortizing its carbon footprint and then be loaned to a municipality that cannot afford a tree or be recycled into a semi-finished product.

In a world in crisis, where flora & fauna are suffering the ravages of human disinterest, as citizens we must respect and save the Living and decarbonize each of our actions by reusing the existing. The shortcuts thinking that cutting down a real tree would be more ecological are not so founded: the years to make it grow a giant, the destruction of its ecosystem that it had generated, the chemical fertilizers used for which infiltrate the grounds: the Bio wire for Christmas trees is anecdotal, to finally cut down a giant of almost 7 tons with all the logistics that this implies, transport it from a distant forest by special convoy, just for a life limited to a few weeks to finally be transformed into pallets.

FRACTAL

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2021

Permanent Art Installation

Materials : Mirrored grade AAA Stainless steel, aluminium

For Suzhou City, Shanghai, China.

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dimension :

H.15000 x l.17000 x L. 550 cm

Commissioned by the city of Suzhou for the development of its new Wuyue living area & coordinated locally by UAP. The studio responded to the desire to create an immersive work of art echoing the plaza architecture, but above all proposing an unusual route that breaks with everyday actions: an artwork placed on a cool area, a pond of reflecting water to propose to passers-by a labyrinthine route made of mosaic reflections and fresh air. A wandering that would allow to take time and to appropriate a new visual, spatial and corporal paradigm. The mirrors play with and confuse our perspective, we feel ourselves being hit by a luminous path, the route echoes the fluidity of water.

FRACTAL invites visitors to stroll in a mirrored environment between azure sky & water. Capturing the delicate movements of light and the changing moods of the sky, the artwork creates the experience of a new fragmented gaze. It’s like slowly observing a new set of visual textures, loosing one’s reference during a walk; it is entering new field of reality for a moment, to feel free in a pixelated parenthesis.

CIRCLE

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2021

Permanent Optic Art Installation

Materials : High Density Phosphorescent rope

For Amédée, Bordeaux, France

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dimension :

H.1000 x l.12000 x L. 880 cm

Colors : Phosphorescent light green.

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Island enclosed between city and train station. The "window" is an imaginary perspective framing the railway complex blindly. In this invisible perspective, a present resonance exists between the saturated urban pattern of the Nansouty district & the leaking infrastructures of the Saint Jean station.This frame, reveals its importance to give birth to a work allowing a setting in echo of such a situation.

    Taking into account the historical and urban context of the district: the immediate proximity of the station and its uses, the work will have to be born from this heritage and evoke the notions of frames and superimpositions that evoke a railway station, to allow a graphic and evocative reading while freeing itself from the codes of the station to maximize the polysemic allusions. The work will also have to allow an appreciation of the greatest number without immediately relaying to the image of railroads. The installation shows a weaving of 130 soft green phosphorescent ropes, this network of ropes that splits echoes the railway lines as well as the 260 train departures that the station offers every day. The flexible system, moored at the periphery of the window, like a frame, is stretched obliquely to create a phenomenon of crossings to amplify a new perspective. Each string is tightened by tension in the center to create a disk, a denser object that proposes a second visual breakthrough, becoming a new dynamic. In order to accentuate a phenomenon of vortex, the peripheries of the rope will be treated and painted in order to create a gradient of dark green, to the natural light green of the rope.

BLADE.

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2020

Table-top mirror duo

Duo of High Density Mirror Polished Stainless steel Mirror

For Atelier SILEX.

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limited signed edition of 8 each

two sizes :

55 x 45 x17 cm

65 x 27 x 17 cm

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BLADE est une collection en duo de miroir monocorps à poser. Produit par formage d’une feuille d’acier inoxydable par la technique de carrossier automobile d’estampage à la main. Deux surfaces développé son soudées en tension par cordon. Le volume sera ensuite poli de longues heures pour affiner les arrêtes et obtenir une surface miroir parfaite.

Ces miroirs inspirés par les lames raffinées des épées japonaises Wakizashi. A mi chemin entre objet de contemplation et outil fonctionnel, la prestance de leurs larges volumes mais également l’extrême finesse de leurs contours offrent une esthétique sculpturale à la fois forte et délicate.

BLADE is a single-body table-top mirror duo collection. Produced by forming a stainless steel  sheet by the auto bodybuilder's hand stamping technique. Two developed surfaces are welded in tension by cord. The volume will then be polished for long hours to refine the edges and obtain a perfect mirror surface.

FINE CHAMPAGNE

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2016

Graphic design map

Champagne gold silkscreen.

For REMYMARTIN, Cognac, France.

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  In between the topographic references, altimeter lines, frontiers threshold and the artisanal know-how fingerprints. This map has been specially designed for Remy Martin, to highlight the specificity and the extraordinary terroir of the Fine Champagne soil, where exceptional premium cognacs are born.

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