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Aesthetics of contingency #2


Group show with :
Stephen Antonakos, Mel Bochner, Julien Bismuth, Fabiola Burgos Labra, John Cage, Marcel Duchamp, Céleste Gatier, Mark Geffriaud, Sadakishi Hartmann, David Horvitz, Eva Jospin, Tony Jouanneau, Toshikatsu Kiushi, Alison Knowles, Silvia Kolbowski, Godelieve Keulen, Geraldine Longueville, Louise Lawler, J.N. Mellor Club, Mai Miura, Shuji Nakagawa, Pauline Oliveros, Kyuji Onari, Michael Parsons, Nam June Paik, Hiroshi Ueda, Nina Safainia, So Andrew Saito, Yann Serandour, Mieko Shiomi, Mathieu Steinberg, Yohko Toda, William Anastasi, Katincka Bock, Irene Kopelman, Isa Melsheimer, Christoph Weber, Franz Erhard Walther.

Curated by Sébastien Pluot
Galerie Jocelyn Wolff 16 mars - 15 mai 2025

10 ans de METIERS D’ART A LA VILLA KUJOYAMA 2024

JN.MELLOR CLUB takes part in the group show curated by Isabelle Olivier and Shuho Hananofu : 10 years of “Métiers d'Art” residencies at Villa Kujoyama
16 october - 4 November 2024

The Terminal Kyoto gallery,
Shimogyo Ward, 424, Kyoto.

NUIT BLANCHE KYOTO 2024

JN.MELLOR CLUB is part of the Nuit Blanche Kyoto 2024 program with an installation/performance entitled “Monomi”, in collaboration with the artist duo Disconoma (Fanny Terno and Thomas Vauthier).

A sketch of contemporary rituality, “Monomi” is somewhere between an artistic installation and a ceremony, combining Disconoma's performative scenography with new objects/tools from the research initiated during the JN.Mellor Club's residency at Villa Kujoyama, to create a suspended space-time conducive to contemplation.


Bridge studio art space :
69 Jodoji Higashidacho, Sakyo Ward, Kyoto

28 september to 13 october 2024

Watch the video: Monomi

UNIQUE(S)

For its third exhibition since the reopening of its museum, the Centre Albert Marinus has once again chosen to restore this atypical late 19th-century house to its original function by recreating a living space. Continuing its commitment to synergy with excellent institutional partners, the "Unique(s)" exhibition is organized by the Centre Albert Marinus in collaboration with the Centre d'Innovation et de Design au Grand-Hornu and Atelier Jespers (Jean-François Declercq), whose participation and expertise enable us to introduce the general public to a world of exceptional pieces often reserved for a select group of initiates. The exhibition is structured around several disciplines: cabinetmaking, lighting design tableware, glassmaking, ceramics, goldsmithing, tapestry, jewelry, eyewear and sheathing. upholstery. The work of some forty internationally renowned Belgian and foreign artists the Museum's galleries.


Musée de Woluwe
Centre Albert Marinus
1200 Brussels

14 april- 9 july 2023

LA MIA CASA AZUL

Primordial objects, elementary architectures and ornaments recreate an idyllic micro-universe in the cerulean interior of the gallery. With this eclectic environment composed of new works by international and Italian artists, Margherita Ratti honors the universe of Frida Kahlo’s Casa Azul in Mexico City. Between the everyday and the ceremonial, between action and contemplation, the selected works, handmade with natural materials, are impregnated with vegetal and animal evocations. They invite to a sensorial experience; an aesthetic journey that celebrates the materiality of these contemporary works that seem ancient.
The public is invited to walk among the animated bestiaries and wool tapestries by Célia Picard & Hannes Schreckenberger, the textile sculptures by the Slovakian artist Karol Pichler, the stone walls made of paper by the very young Michelangelo Menu, the symbolic ceramics by MAR , the ornamental tapestry and the precious stools by the duo JN.Mellor Club.


Oxilia Gallery
via Nino Oxilia 9
20127 Milano
8 march - 21 april 2023

BIENVENUE DESIGN - Hôtel de La Louisiane

"Interior Jewels”
For this second edition of Bienvenue Design at the Hôtel La Louisiane, JN.Mellor Club presented a selection of Objects and Accessories in mutation, where the hybridity of practices blurs the codes of luxury. Waste becomes precious, the bag becomes sculpture, the object has several lives, its use and status evolving with encounters, exchanges and desires. The finest leather meets sandstone, marble or metal, and the meticulous "haute-couture" work of different skills and exceptional materials transforms the object into an ornament, a genuine "interior jewel".

Hôtel de la Louisiane
60 rue de Seine, Paris
8 - 11 september 2022

COLLECTIBLE - Bruxelles


SYSTEMS/ La Bocca Della Verità gallery

A selection of architectural models and furniture as micro-architectures, put together by curator Margherita Ratti at the invitation of Jean François Declerq (Atelier Jespers and La Bocca Della Verità, Brussels), JN.Mellor Club searches for poetry in the crevices of everyday life, transposing residue into preciousness. With this set of obsolete stools, JN.Mellor Club sees a wired structure, a small architecture akin to a loom. The meticulous weaving of crystal beads and chains changes the status of the object, transforming it into an ornament of delicate, iconoclastic richness.

Collectible
Vanderborght Building, Brussels
20 - 22 may 2022

SHOPPING

Invited by contemporary design gallery A-1043, the JN.Mellor Club takes up residence at 47 rue de Montmorency. The idea behind this collaboration is to create a dialogue between our creations and the gallery's collection. We'll be featuring pieces by Julien Carretero, Julien Manaira and Réjean Peytavin, as well as Michael Schoner, Lucas Massen and older objects by Masaki Morita, George Sowden and Mendini.

A-1043 Galerie
47 rue de Montmorency 3e, Paris
15 - 24 december 2021

TALENTS A SUIVRE

Exhibition of the winners of the "Grand Prix de la Création de la Ville de Paris".

Joyce Gallery
168 Galerie de Valois, Palais Royal, Paris
12 - 29 october 2021

BIENVENUE DESIGN - Hôtel de La Louisiane

For the first edition of Bienvenue Design, JN.Mellor Club takes up residence at the Hôtel de la Louisiane during Design Week in September 2021, surrounded by designers whose universe resonates with the mythology of the place and the spirit of freedom of "La bohème de Saint-Germain des Prés". Faithful to its approach: building bridges, points of fusion between artistic practices and ways of thinking, JN.Mellor Club took up residence in room 25 and invited: Francine Flandrin, Aurélien Imbert, Prisca Lobjoy, Vincent Mésaros & la Revue Cockpit.

Hôtel de la Louisiane
60 rue de Seine, Paris.
8 - 12 october 2021

POSSIBILITES - Group show

Designers:
Pierre Castignola
Paul Coenen
Rino Claessens
Diego Faivre
Henri frachon
Han-Chiao
Theo Leclerck & Camille Viallet
Lucas Maassen
JN.Mellor Club…

Galerie A10-43,
47 rue de Montmorency, Marais, Paris 3e.
22 - 20 december 2020

BIENNALE EMERGENCES, Pantin

For the 2020 edition of the Emergences Biennial, JN.Mellor Club has created JN_FB-001: a device made of rubble, covered in precious leathers, an allegory of archaeological fragments, relics or elements of (re)-construction. 16 pieces of rubble (concrete, plaster, cast iron, rock) of various sizes covered with latex foam, sheathed in leather from the stocks of major luxury brands, worked in the tradition of saddlery and boot-making: sheathing, saddle-stitching, lacquered edges...
JN.Mellor Club continues to explore the porosity between the sensible and the futile, seeking poetry in the interstices of everyday life and transforming residue into preciousness, into fetish.


Centre National de la Danse, Pantin.
8 - 11 october 2020

REVELATIONS

Biennale internationale des métiers d’art et de la Création, Le Banquet France

At the request of Mr. Jannick Thiroux (curator of the Banquet France), JN.Mellor Club has chosen to present his first piece at the Révélations show. A totemic device somewhere between a game of divination with organic forms and archaeological fragments, like so many pebbles left on the path to better find oneself, to return to the essential, towards a more assertive creation with purified forms and natural materials. A true statement piece in the JN. Mellor club, comprising ten sand-weighted leather symbols and four semi-precious stone tokens (Jasper, Pietersite, Agate and Porphyry). Edition of 3

Révélations
Grand-Palais, Paris 8e
23 - 26 may 2019