About Zim&Zou 

French duo Zim&Zou create paper artwork installations for a variety of worldwide purchasers comparable to Microsoft, ICON,Hermès, TIME, Washington Submit, ENI, Der Spiegel, La Rinascente e il Centre Pompidou.

Zim&Zou is a younger duo composed of Lucie Thomas (b. 1987) and Thibaut Zimmermann (b. 1986). They each began as graphic designers, working in publishing and promoting. After just a few years, they centered on installations utilizing handcrafted objects made out of paper, wooden, threads, and so on.

Their favourite materials is the paper they’re manipulating to provide rise to intricate and colourful sculptures. Paper conjures up them for its versatility, infinite vary of colours and distinctive textures. The flat paper sheets was quantity are giving an set up the poetry of ephemeral materials.

Zim&Zou’s power is to be a complementary and polyvalent duo.

Work Course of

All of Zim&Zou’s works usually are not pc design based mostly however handcrafted! Their favourite materials is paper, which they lower, fold, glue to create colourful sculptures.

Paper is essentially the most versatile of mediums to them, as for its distinctive colours and textures. The ultimate paintings is an set up wealthy in poetry and shapes of any complexity. Their visible model focuses on thrilling and eccentric scenes. Colourful buildings, big flowers, and vegetation, pure landscapes are stuffed with big seafood to turn into the primary characters of their creations.  ‘Life is in every single place; flowers are rising and carry away its inhabitants of their impetus. The mysterious individuals are evolving, constructing, and residing proper within the coronary heart of nature, revealing a fraction of their every day life.’

MUSEUM OF SUPERNATURAL HISTORY – Artist Home windows for Hermès Maison Shanghai.

The idea is impressed by a Museum of Pure Historical past, melted with a Cupboard of Curiosities. The home windows, hand-made with paper and leather-based, are an invite to wander. Passers-by have been instantly strolling by means of the corridors of a mysterious Museum, straight from the road. The themes take impulse from nature; the 2 principal home windows are about Air and Water, and the 2 smaller ones round Earth. All of the animals are rigorously handcrafted utilizing leather-based offcuts from Hermès workshops in Paris. Within the water-themed window, a 5 meters dinosaur paper cranium is swimming by means of the room (plesiosaurus cranium)—the entire venture required virtually three months of labor and a fantastic native group’s assist.

EXODUS

‘EXODUS’ is an ode to Journey. Thrown in a steady motion, the plane colony crosses time and house towards an unknown final result. Like birds caught in an countless migration, they’re pursuing their hope of an elsewhere.

The intense pink, blue, and purple plane are completely hand-made. Every physique shows a number of geometric patterns created with lower and stacked paper that match the remainder of the fleet. Thrown in a continuing motion, the plane colony crosses time and house towards an unknown final result. 

Zim&Zou is at the moment referred to as by worldwide huge companies to set-up and stage home windows and visible merchandise in addition to journal content material and covers.

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