Pierre Charpin - Wise Monkey Framed poster - / Limited, numbered edition - 50.6 x 66.5 cm by The Wrong Shop Black

Step inside "The Wrong Shop" art gallery: a sharp selection of exclusive posters that will appeal to fans of graphic and visual arts! Created by English designer Sebastian Wrong, the brand publishes drawings and prints by influential artists, designers and architects. These exceptional-quality limited, numbered edition prints are truly unique and affordable works of art. The Monkey posters are the work of French designer Pierre Charpin. These drawings represent, in line with his artistic training, the possibility of a direct and immediate approach to the world of forms. Because it’s first through drawing that a world emerges, appears before us. In the simple economy of one's means - a pencil, a surface - in the desire to bring forth shape, drawing is poetic power. Suspended from the constraints of production, with no finality other than that imposed by their own impetus, the shapes designed by Pierre Charpin unfold in free play. A search, a movement of the hand and thought towards a form he doesn’t yet see, that he perhaps glimpses. This tension becomes, by the infinite repetition of the same action, by the chromatic variation of the same line or the same point, plastic power, internal dynamism which involves the eye of the spectator in the emergence of the form. An artist by training, it was from the early 1990s that Pierre Charpin devoted himself significantly to designing furniture and objects. His research is reflected in projects for the Design Gallery Milano and Galerie Kreo in Paris. Jointly, he collaborates for product design with design houses such as Post Design, Zanotta, Montina, Venini, La Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres. In 2004, he won the competition to design a water carafe, launched by the Société Anonyme de Gestion des Eaux de Paris, with the “Eau de Paris” carafe, and his “Triplo” vase, produced by Venini, figures in the selection for the Compasso d'Oro 2005. He was voted designer of the year 2005 by the Paris Furniture Fair. He holds many personal exhibitions. Several of his pieces are part of the collections of the FNAC (National Contemporary Art Fund), the George Pompidou Centre and the Museum of Decorative Arts in Paris.