Soul Story 2

SOUL (Souvenir du Liban Uni) - Charles Kalpakian, A series of six plaster lamps intended to serve as wall sconces and designed to as if one were entering a dark alley at dusk and suddenly pierced by a surreal ray of light. Elements of a memorial biography, these landscapes of curiosity gave designer Charles Kalpakian, experienced in working with metal, stone, bronze, lacquer and velvet, the opportunity to master plaster in his studio. In this humble, vernacular material, he cast six figures similar to Etruscan masks. In the pure white of the matrix, he sometimes slipped a flat gold leaf to sublimate the backlight of each lamp. An avowed biographical exercise, Soul invites you to contemplate each model through the eyes of a small metal character, sitting or standing, that DCW invites you to discover.