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MODERN SHAPES

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EST. 2024

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Sculptural artworks at the intersection of design, art and architecture.

Modern Shapes Editions is the collaboration between Ethnicraft and Modern Shapes Gallery, offering an exclusive collection of handcrafted sculptures. Standing at the intersection of design, art and architecture, each art piece boasts elegance and balanced refinement.

Modern Shapes and Ethnicraft share core values steeped in authentic craftsmanship and a simple, timeless aesthetic, seamlessly integrating into diverse spaces.

 

 
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craftsmanship


 
 

Each limited-edition work of art is meticulously handcrafted by talented artisans in Ethnicraft’s Indonesian woodworking atelier. With generations of experience, incredibly skilled craftspeople transform the original artists’ works into exquisite solid wooden editions — interpretations of unique sculptures by international artists, ensuring enduring appeal and collectability.

 

simplicity 

balance 

tranquillity 

 
 
 
 
 
 
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Kayu Remaja

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Extrusion Ovoid

 
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Claustra "Echo"

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Brutal Monument #4

   
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Kolom

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Pipe #5

 

Artists


 
 

Modern Shapes Editions represents the creations of a carefully curated, yet diverse, selection of artists from around the globe, all with different skillsets and backgrounds. Some are still making their first career waves, whilst others are solidly established internationally.

 

All of the artists share a passion for handcrafting a range of natural or manmade materials, which naturally lend themselves to transformation into solid wooden editions.

 
 

Alban Lanore

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Alban Lanore’s sculptural work combines abstract and rational worlds. Fascinated by nature’s extraordinarily diverse forms during trips to forests, over the years, his organic work got pared down to pure lines and forms.

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Helen Vergouwen

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Helen Vergouwen is passionate about forms, which are usually geometric but sometimes also irregular and more organic. She turns imagined memories into solid form through sturdy materials, with minimalist sculptures typically made of wood, bronze or corten steel.

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Denis Castaing

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Denis Castaing underlines how his pieces seek to invest a feeling of movement and rhythm in immobile materials, whilst questioning the relationship that the work has with the interior space contained within.

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Levi Hawken

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Originating in graffiti art, Levi Hawken creates voids through his pieces, which are often influenced by Brutalism, urban architecture and a desire to express an appreciation for the universe’s unknown force.

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ABSID

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ABSID’s artistic output is grounded in process and research, exploring themes like analogue-digital transformation, reuse, digital modulation and randomisation.

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Scott VanderVoort

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Scott VanderVoort’s creations broadly explore themes of impermanence, beauty, memory and the ambiguous divide between art and the mundane.

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David Umemoto

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The work of David Umemoto exudes mystery, stimulates the imagination, but at the same time gives a sense of reflective discipline straddling the line between sculpture and architecture.

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Lucien Petit

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Geometry determines the outlines of Lucien Petit’s sculptures, which bear the hallmarks of the avant-garde and Brutalism.

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Brigitte Marionneau

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In Brigitte Marionneau’s pieces, lines are never dull or lifeless. Instead, they possess a captivating firmness that seems to breathe and pulse. The simplistic reading of the form only enhances its intensity.

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