Description
Today, Victor Cadène presents the preparatory drawings of fans created for the Parisian Maison Duvelleroy. The original Maison offered elegant ladies the whole panoply of essential accessories to attend the show. Duvelleroy is now reviving this link with the Opera through a collection of fans designed by Victor. These fans offer a colorful rhythm where the profusion is inspired by the richly decorated ceilings of the Opéra Garnier. An ornamental work enhanced by a composition of gold dots, like an ode to the world of entertainment.
In his paper scenographies, a small theater of a dreamed everyday life, he imagines miniature and baroque architectures where opulent patterns and colors reign supreme.
Each element is drawn by hand before being cut with a scalpel and then refined, retouched, placed, glued, brushed to achieve the perfection of the moment.
The paper then takes shape in the form of successive layers seeking concordance, suspended time and the capture of a dream become reality of paper.An intuitive, spontaneous and ornamental work, which borrows from the Decorative Arts by leaving a frame that has become , under Victor’s pencil, a signature format.
The drawing then becomes the model and comes to life in decorative staging; he transforms into wallpapers, fabrics and dreamlike scenographies, like his collaborations for the Parisian windows of Shang Xia or with his series of exclusive illustrations for the house Diptyque.
