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Quentin Carnaille
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Quentin Carnaille born in Roubaix in 1984, is a French contemporary artist. Raised in Roubaix near Lille, Quentin Carnaille has been seen as a promising creator as early as 2013 by Maisons de Mode —who put a boutique/workshop at his disposal—, he then took part in various exhibitions in Paris and abroad. While he was still a student in architecture, his first works were influenced by his fascination for clockwork mechanisms. At first diverted from their primary purpose and used in the manufacture of jewelry and accessories, these were quickly used by the artist as material to create actual sculptures each time bigger. Even if today Quentin Carnaille feels committed to contemporaneity or even futuristic ideas, his early work revolved around the past and our origins. The metaphysical dimension of his work accompanies a real reflection about art history. Indeed, the artist reinterprets some classics of western art to propose a new version. It is the case, for instance, with his anthropomorphic sculptures, designed as an obvious reference to Giacometti. In this regard, some of Quentin Carnaille’s works should be seen as influenced by postmodernism. This approach is also enhanced as the artist makes his the concept of found objects or ready-made. With Garde-Temps, a watch that does not give the time, he transforms a manufactured object with a specific function into a work of art delivering a poetic speech on time and its relativity. Apparition, unveiled at Art Up! in 2015 , also contributes to developing new issues in the artist’s work. The watch parts, no longer held together by magnets, are trapped in ice. The transformation of matter, of water into ice, is an allegory of time. Apparition, in a certain way symbolising the ephemeral nature of the work of art, is above all a radical demonstration of the destruction of the object in the artist’s work. Therefore, this sculpture foreshadowed an important renewal of Quentin Carnaille’s practice, now oriented towards a form of conceptual minimalism fully illustrated by Introspection. Works Infini - 2012 Apesanteur - 2013 Garde-Temps - 2015 Apparition - 2015 Introspection - 2016 Exhibitions 2016 * CAP Gallery, Koweït * Art Beijing, Pekin, Chine * MAD Gallery, Dubai, Émirats arabes unis * MAD Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan * MAD Gallery, Genève, Suisse * Art Up !, Lille, France 2015 * Galerie Art & Space, Munich, Allemagne * MAD Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan * MAD Gallery, Genève, Suisse * Galerie MTP, Luxembourg * Artop Gallery, Lille, France * Créarte, Ars-en-Ré, France * Hublot place Vendôme, Paris, France * Art Up! Lille, France 3 2014 * Art Up !, Lille, France * MAD Gallery, Genève, Suisse * Joyce Galerie Palais Royal, Paris, France * Artop Gallery, Lille, France * Cité de la mode et du design, Paris, France 2013 * Lille Art Fair, Lille, France * Hotel Bloom, Bruxelles, Belgique * Artop Gallery, Lille, France 
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