Dedicated to contemporary art and design, the Véronique Rieffel Gallery presents works by artists from the Middle East and the African continent. Newly created, it intends to break with a Western-centered vision of the art market.
For its first participation in Beirut Design Fair, it presents the first solo show of Ivorian designer Jean-Servais Somian in Lebanon. Produced in very small series and endowed with a strong personality, his pieces which are sometimes at the limit of the sculpture do not remain less functional. His contemporary design carries with him a part of ancestrality. One of its peculiarities lies in the choice of materials such as coconut, or ebony woods but also some revisited African everyday objects such as bowls, sponges or old fishermen’s canoes, which give birth to his iconic Méridienne-Pirogue. His work has been exhibited extensively in Africa, Europe, the United States and Latin America.
