Hôtel de Crillon

Set within the Hôtel de Crillon in Paris, this intimate exhibition brings together five artists—Marianne Eriksen Scott-Hansen, Pierre Bonnefille, Morgane Pasqualini, Olga Sabko, and aurèce vettier—offer distinct interpretations of the natural world through four deeply personal mediums. Each artist works with a different material to translate nature into something contemplative and enduring.

Marianne Eriksen Scott-Hansen sculpts intricate floral forms entirely by hand from paper, cutting freehand with scissors in a process rooted in traditional Danish craft. Her delicate and vibrant sculptures pay tribute to the fragility and celebration of life in bloom. Pierre Bonnefille, named Maître d’Art by the French Ministry of Culture, presents textured compositions reminiscent of aquatic landscapes and the golden flickers of light across water at dusk. Using materials of his own making, Bonnefille crushes bronze to create an internal glow and a meditation on the interplay of reflections, time, and stillness. Olga Sabko embraces uncertainty and impermanence in her process, allowing the material to guide her. Her ceramic works appear suspended in a fluid state of transformation, evoking the rawness of time. She approaches form with intuition, capturing moments of becoming rather than completion. Morgane Pasqualini draws on her French-Italian heritage in crafting her vessels, which are shaped by wheel-throwing and coiling. She merges influences from Greco-Roman antiquity, Mediterranean culture, and floral forms. Morgane’s work celebrates movement, sensory experiences, and the timeless elegance of earth-based materials. aurèce vettier, a hybrid art project by Paul Mouginot, begins in the digital realm—generating imagined tree forms through AI algorithms he himself designed and trained. Mouginot ventures into the forest to replicate the forms using real branches, which are then cast in bronze. The final gilding—applied by the renowned French atelier Studio Gohard in gold leaf and palladium—bridges machine vision with human craftsmanship. He also translates his AI-generated “impossible herbariums” into oil on canvas, using one of art’s most traditional mediums to give form to digitally imagined botanicals.

Together, these works offer varied perspectives on the natural world—each shaped by a distinct process, material, and sensibility.