“Metamorphosis” proposes a trans-historical dialogue between French designer Dorian Renard and the late Italian sculptor Sergio Storel. The exhibition presents a selection of works highlighting the connections and different visions of the two artists, enhanced by the scenographic intervention of various renown artists, writers and philosophers.

Sergio Storel (1927- 2017) a French-Italian sculptor, painter, who made his career in France. He studied at the academy of Beaux-arts in Venice. He moved to Paris in 1958, eager to continue his education in the major artistic center. The following year, he enrolled in the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. Sergio was deeply inspired by Greek and Roman classics yet rebelled against its idealized forms. His elegant geometric volumes reexamine representation, often employing ovoid and simplistic shapes to evoke movement, repose, or spiritual re^lection. His work has been the subject of solo shows at the Rodin Museum, Paris; the Museum of Modern Art, Paris; the Museum Constant Permeke, Jabbeke, Belgium; and the Chartres Museum, Chartres, France. His work is the permanent collection of the Smithsonian Museum in Washington D.C. and the Museum of Modern Art, Ostend, Belgium.

Dorian Renard is a French designer based in Marseille, France. He developed a practice that oscillates between a fascination for materials and their mediated meanings. Dorian graduated from the prestigious Design Academy of Eindhoven and has recently collaborated with brands, such as Rimova and Porsche.

Through a sculptural and experimental approach, Dorian’s work challenges our perception of materiality in a sensitive yet conscious way. Driven by an exploration of the subversive use of crafting techniques, he has developed a distinct language that bears the signs of being shaped by human hands.