Artist and designer Nathalie Du Pasquier has translated her fascination with bricks into a site-specific exhibition comprising seven totem-like sculptures made from stacked bricks glazed in bright colours.
Du Pasquier created the Bric installation for Italian ceramics brand Mutina, which operates the MUT exhibition space at its headquarters in Fiorano.
The exhibition, which was curated by Sarah Cosulich, features seven sculptural structures that rise from the sand-covered floor of the building designed by Angelo Mangiarotti in the 1970s.

The starting point for each sculpture was the humble brick, which has been a recurring element in Du Pasquier's work ? particularly her paintings.
"I know nothing about bricks," she said in an interview with Cosulich for the exhibition's catalogue. "For me they are strange, anonymous objects I have inserted sometimes in the still lifes I paint."
Du Pasquier has focused on painting since the 1980s, with her abstract works often including shapes that reference domestic objects.
Prior to this, the self-taught designer was a founding member of the influential Memphis Group alongside Ettore Sottsass.
She was responsible for many of its decorated surfaces, including textiles, carpets and plastic laminates, as well as creating products and furniture.

A recent revival of interest in Memphis designs has seen Du Pasquier develop a clothing collection featuring her graphic prints for American Apparel, as well as a range of texti...