From 13 April to 13 June, Sceners Gallery presents ‘Form and Temptation’, in collaboration with the Almine Rech Gallery, bringing together works by Allen Jones, Ruhlmann, Bugatti, Legrain, Moser and Dunand. The exhibition creates a dialogue between early 20th-century design and the pop aesthetic of the 1960s. It explores a pivotal moment when objects were no longer confined to their function or mere decorative role. Gradually, modernist designers began to conceive of objects as spaces of freedom, where form, materials and proportions took on as much importance as function.
In the 1960s, this trend became more radical with artists such as Allen Jones. Against a backdrop of cultural liberation, art opened up to the body, desire and popular culture. Objects became vehicles for projection, sometimes ambiguous or provocative, where body and artefact became indistinguishable. The exhibition thus brings together two dynamics: on the one hand, objects gradually freed from their function; on the other, works that question their utility from the moment of their conception. Between these two approaches, a space of tension is created where form becomes a terrain of expression, fiction and desire, transforming the way we perceive objects.
