Nathalie Du Pasquier (Bordeaux, 1957) moves to Milan in 1979.
Until 1996 she works as a designer in the Memphis Group of which she is co-founder. From 1987 she is exclusively dedicated to painting.

"Giusi Laurino called me in Spring. It was a long time I hadn’t heard from her and I hadn’t been in Naples since the Pan “Napoli Presente” exhibit that took place after the work “the Beast in me” conceived for the Monday Factory. On the phone she told me that the Factory was no longer the Monday Factory but had become the Art Factory and she was suggesting for me to participate with an exhibit of art works that we would have achieved together with several artists from Campania. It was lovely news: it has been a while now that my work comprises of constructed elements (constructed by me), it has become a dialogue between three-dimensional elements and things that I represent in my paintings. The opportunity of designing “sculptures” without my limitations and to experiment with different materials, sounded really nice.
I started designing and I found out that in recent years I have been thinking of many things that I haven’t had the chance to complete and obviously had surfaced in the spur of Naples. Giusi also pushes me in that direction with not so much direction that is congenial to me. The factory must produce not only objects, but possibilities, results of dreams, of  encounters. 

photo by Maria Di Pietro