ChiaroscuroCurated by Michèle Lamy

Apr 2, 2026 – May 5, 2026

Michèle Lamy curates the exhibition Chiaroscuro presented by Carpenters Workshop Gallery and ICD Brookfield in Dubai, opening February 2024.

Chiaroscuro

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Apr 2, 2026 – May 5, 2026

Artists

Michèle Lamy & Loree RodkinAldo BakkerAtelier Van LieshoutCampana BrothersMaarten BaasNacho CarbonellRick OwensRoger HermanVincenzo De Cotiis

Exhibition Statement

Reflective of Dubai’s starkly contrasting landscape as it moved from day to night, Lamy divides the exhibition into a dichotomy of light and dark, highlighting the importance of both in moulding our understanding of the world. Without one the other cannot be experienced or appreciated. “The Light” evoking fire, nature’s sculptor, and how the landscape is formed through the warmth of the sun. The heat has been harnessed to bend metals and glass to create the vast city of Dubai, as well as the objects of astounding beauty by the true masters of their materials: Rick Owens Furniture, Studio Drift and Nacho Carbonell. Inspired by the Pop Art movement, Lamy brings together a charismatic influx of colour seen most vividly in the Children’s Clocks of Maarten Baas, the Campana Brothers’ Dolphins and Sharks Banquete chair and Martin Laforet’s concrete Variations seats. David/Nicolas pushes the malleability of stone and glass to new extremes with bending waves and organic shapes that surprise and confound but are rooted in the natural beauty of the material. Floating bubbles fixed overhead in glass sculptures from the Verhoeven Twins inform us of the space around us, creating valleys and voids that allow us to explore the shape and light through their delicate intricacy. As we move in to “The Darkness”, Lamy invites the viewer to a refined and mysterious space, where beguiling forms take shape in the depths, rooted primarily in the work of Rick Owens Furniture. Meanwhile, the tigre pattern across Rick Owen’s Gallic Chair evokes alternating shadows that ground the artist’s practice in the rich materials of stone and wood. The imposing forms of writhing bronze catch the subdued light in The Light and Darkness by Wendell Castle, bringing a new life to metal with the exploration of surface at the centre of the work. Kendell Geers unsettles and challenges the viewer with the muted masks of Flesh of the Spirit. The polarities of the exhibition are summed up through two contrasting works by Nacho Carbonell. Bathed in light, the polychromatic canopy of Combi Cocoon 2 shines with a warmth that’s reminiscent of the Spanish artist’s sun-baked homeland, while the brooding glow of the lights that punctuate the voluminous black shades of Inside a Forest Cloud represent constellations in a pitch-black sky.

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Artists

Michèle Lamy & Loree Rodkin

Michèle Lamy & Loree Rodkin

Michèle Lamy (b. Jura France) eludes simple categorisation. She is an entrepreneur and producer, collaborator and performer, wife and business partner to Rick Owens with whom she has built an empire, Owenscorp. Lamy occupies a unique place within culture, enjoying iconic status in both the fashion and art worlds.

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Aldo Bakker

Aldo Bakker

Aldo Bakker is represented by Carpenters Workshop Gallery.

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Atelier Van Lieshout

Atelier Van Lieshout

Atelier Van Lieshout is the Rotterdam-based studio founded by the visionary Dutch sculptor Joep van Lieshout. Combining an imaginative aesthetic with a spirit of entrepreneurship, the studio’s multidisciplinary practice produces work that lies on the borders between art, design and architecture.

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Campana Brothers

Campana Brothers

Campana Brothers is represented by Carpenters Workshop Gallery.

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Maarten Baas

Maarten Baas

Maarten Baas is represented by Carpenters Workshop Gallery.

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Nacho Carbonell

Nacho Carbonell

Nacho Carbonell is represented by Carpenters Workshop Gallery.

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Rick Owens

Rick Owens

Rick Owens is represented by Carpenters Workshop Gallery.

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Roger Herman

Roger Herman

Roger Herman is an artist based in Los Angeles, renowned for his innovative work in ceramics, painting and various other mediums.

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Vincenzo De Cotiis

Vincenzo De Cotiis

Vincenzo De Cotiis is represented by Carpenters Workshop Gallery.

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Exhibited works

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