Artist statement | Personnal history | Professional achievement | Education
ARTIST
STATEMENT
The interplay between doing and imagining, form and function,
is the core of what informs my design.
Rather than identifying with a particular material or artistic
medium, I am interested in staying open to the different worlds
of the arts, working on a by-project basis, primarily in visual
art and design. My work includes all sorts of projects- from
a space-saving Towel Rack and surface design to molds making
and stone sculptures.
I use a mix of materials and techniques,
and experimentation, accidents, simplicity, randomness, imperfection
and flexibility are essential elements of my creative process.
My work juxtaposes and balances opposing forces:
mobility/immobility,
lightness/heaviness, softness/hardness, liquid/solid...
I transform
industrial fabrication or a purely functional and practical process
into art. I like to make something happen between the object
and the user; interaction, affection, emotion, sensuality, maybe
beauty!
I like finding solution through exploiting the natural
accidents and the organic or biological behavior.
I like opening
doors.
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PERSONAL HISTORY
I grew up working on my parents' farm near Dijon, in the middle of France. Through this work and later, in building construction, I learned to make and repair things and to organize space. Building materials were everywhere; tools, machines and problems to resolve provided me with objectives to reach and techniques to discover.
I engaged in three dimensional thinking.
I already knew that the visual aspect of life was my main interest, and that with the visual comes the physical, the presence of volume and tangible materials in space.
I entered art school to understand two-dimensional form and to further organize my mind and my imagination.
My five years of formal fine arts education in Toulouse, in the south of France, focused on drawing, painting, and all related techniques for producing images, as well as art history, theory and general culture. An insatiable curiosity pushed me to observe as many things as possible. I was attracted to fine arts and the notion of it's inherent infinity. I also started training in martial arts, another infinite artform involving movement and the controlling of space.
My years after school were very prolific. I explored the expansive variety of the visual arts and took my first steps into dance, theater and music. I lived for nine years in Strasbourg, in the east of France, developing my art and working professionally in sculpture, museography, scenography, graphic design, calligraphy, object design, assisting artists and performing dance theater, among other things.
I had the full freedom, means and materials to with which to experiment; I linked together objects with pictures, ideas with techniques and art with design. Slowly, I moved from martial arts to the freest of dance forms; contact improvisation. Contact dance enabled me to become more flexible and supple in my relationship to space, people and objects and to acquire a more continuous connection to things in general. This is evidenced in my choice of materials and subjects for my art and design production.
I came to New York five years ago to assist a renowned Italian designer. Together, we developed prototypes, experimented with new materials and investigated the most efficient means by which to make his work. After 2 years I left his to work with other design companies and artists and, once again, to pursue my own direction.
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PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENTS
2001-2007 // FREE LANCE SCULPTOR / DESIGNER - NEW YORK
• Launching of Fproduct, (furniture, object and industrial design studio) www.fproduct.net
• Technical development, research and design for several furniture design/props companies and for artists
• Development of personnal projects in visual arts (sculpture, painting, installation) - www.fabricecovelli.com
1999-2001 // PESCE STUDIO - PRODUCT DESIGN - NEW YORK
Assistant of Gaetano Pesce ; - development of prototypes, uniques pieces
- Research and experimentation of new materials and techniques
1992-1999 // FREE LANCE SCULPTOR / GRAPHIC DESIGNER - STRASBOURG / FRANCE
Object’s design
1995-1999
Creation of furnitures and lamps (mixed media)
Graphic design
1997-1999
Art direction of trinational school handbook for Council of Europe
1992-1999
Visual identity and sign for different types of companies
Calligraphy for advertising agencies
Typographic creations
Museography / Scenography
1998-1999
Electropolis Museum, Mulhouse, France
Design and artwork of traveling exhibitions
Collaboration with few architects for museum:
- Graphic design and visual identity
- Models, signal system, showing furnitures, graphic and relief cartography
Sculpture
1992-1999
Use of many materials and techniques from mold to cast with any materials, carving in stone
and wood, lettering, fusing glass, trophy, modeling, paperwork, woodwork
Research and experimentation of new materials and technics
1996
Project of monumental sculpture using new technologies
(3D morphing, rapid prototyping,
stereolithography)
Wall painting
1992–1999
Several wall painting in public and private places
1991-1992
ANTOINE GRAFF STUDIO, STRASBOURG, FRANCE
Realization of limited editions of bas-reliefs in resins and polymers, engraving and
silk-screen for the French artists Armand, César, Sosno, Villeglé.
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EDUCATION
1992
Fine Art School, Strasbourg
Specialization in graphic design and calligraphy
1990-1991
Fine Art School, Exeter, England
Specialization in sculpture and lithographic printing
1985-1990
Fine Art School, Toulouse, France
Diplome National Supérieur d’Enseignement Plastique (DNSEP ) sculpture and painting (equivalent to a bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts)
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