The Wrong Shop Framed poster Black Paper. Dimensions: 50.6 × 66.5 cm –
3.1 cm thick. 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.
