Massimo Dutti’s ArtInProgress project was launched to promote the creativity of local artists around the world. One of the brand’s latest collaborations was with artist Sophie Bueno-Boutellier at the Regent Street store in London during the city’s fashion week.
SOPHIE BUENO-BOUTELLIER
Born in 1974 in Toulouse, Sophie Bueno-Boutellier lives and works in Paris. She graduated from the Villa Arson and is represented by London’s The Approach Gallery. Bueno-Boutellier practices “Tantric Cashmere Yoga”, a process that provides the backbone to her artistic practice. Sophie Bueno-Boutellier uses painting to transform materials into abstractions. She investigates the binary condition which exists between the pictorial and the sculptural, playing with their boundaries to find new spaces of exploration. Her relationship with painting is intuitive and instinctive, creating a dynamic in which the process of painting feels urgent, pushing the limits of what Bueno-Boutellier feels she can actually control.
“VIVID,
VIBRANT
EMOTIONS
THAT
INVITE
CALM”
ART IN PROGRESS
SOPHIE BUENO–BOUTELLIER
LONDON
Sophie Bueno-Boutellier transforms everyday materials (like used sheets, towels and clothes) that have been abandoned, neglected or damaged. By creating an emotional space related to love, family and intimacy, these modest items evoke a domestic scene. Her recent solo exhibitions include: “Let me steal this moment from you now”, Freymond-Guth Gallery (Zurich, 2013), “The Don of Gaïa”, The Approach (London, 2017), “La ritournelle du peuple des cuisines”, Fondation d’entreprise Ricard (Paris, 2017) and “Je me perds et me répands… Je suis l’écho de ton eau”, Galerie Joseph Tang (Paris, 2020).
“A
DELICATE
SENSE
OF THE
INSTALLATION”
ART IN PROGRESS
SOPHIE BUENO–BOUTELLIER
LONDON
The way she approaches space as a whole carries unique force, harnessing internal and external vibrations. The performative process of her art, which involve physicality and voice, is seen in her surrounding space. Choosing Massimo Dutti’s flagship store in London as the venue for this art reflects the convergence of artistic expression, nature and the store’s minimalist aesthetic. The exhibition opened to the public during London’s fashion week to invite art and fashion lovers to dive into an exciting visual journey to explore the duality of life through the artist’s eyes.