Sensory Experience in the World of Steph Cop and Christian Sinicropi at Restaurant La Palme D'or
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SENSORY EXPERIENCE IN THE WORLD OF STEPH COP AND CHRISTIAN SINICROPI AT RESTAURANT LA PALME D'OR It's in the mythical Hotel Martinez, on the Croisette in Cannes, that an exclusive collaboration between the artist Steph Cop, Chef Christian Sinicropi from " La Palme d'Or** " and his wife Catherine Sinicropi is coming from April 7 to June 27, 2020. @Bálint Pörneczi An exclusive sensory experience at the Hôtel Martinez Steph Cop and C&C Sinicropi Christian Sinicropi, the 2 Michelin-starred Chef of La Palme d’Or at the Hôtel creation. His culinary compositions are veritable pictorial works, presented on plate collections collaboratively fashioned by his wife, ceramicist Catherine Sinicropi, especially for these epicurean inventions. This original cuisine, at once instinctive and cerebral and inspired by the ingredient’s memorial history, is a multisensory experience: The flavors and aromatic notes blend into an olfactory construction and unfurl like a musical score; the chromatic arrangements on the handcrafted plates, coupled with textural relief, create powerful taste dynamics. Inspiration is also mined in meetings with contemporary artists, who are invited to take part in seasonal collaborations. Christian and Catherine Sinicropi are unshakably committed to celebrating art in all its dimensions. The chef, the ceramist, and the guest artist pool their imaginative powers and intertwine their creative techniques to produce inimitable gastronomic aesthetics. In spring 2020, from April 7 to June 27, La Palme d´Or restaurant, with two Michelin stars, presents an extraordinary experience for the senses featuring the work of artist Steph Cop. When these three worlds intentionally collided, the intensity of the encounter shaped and stabilized the position of each in an atypical exploration of possibilities. The tree is the creative source of Steph Cop’s sculptures and now becomes the theme of a journey along the paths of taste: a wooded botanical promenade, the sensory translation of the artist’s intense relationship with arboreal nature. 2 It takes place at a single table for two to eight guests, set in a private room away from the world’s fuss and frenzy. The talented hands of sculptor, ceramist, and cook join forces. Mr. Cop’s iconic figure, ARO, usually carved from a tree, finds expression in the shape of the ceramics and gives life and dimension to the supports of the menu-movement crafted by the chef. Mr. Cop wished to forge a work that freed itself from a more formal dining framework to sculpt a setting formed of the shapes and volumes of ARO – which, in French, is an acronym for “Obsessive Reflex Analysis.” The support was first carved in wood, then the dialogue with Catherine Sinicropi’s savoir-faire made it possible for a ceramic interpretation after much patient, exacting work, reflecting the earth and the very substances that nurture the sylvan world. Each detail of this one-of-a-kind meal is inspired by the tree’s ecosystem. Wood serves as the guiding force behind a three-course gourmet movement. As @Bálint Pörneczi prelude to the experience, guests are presented with a fragrance strip, such that they may smell and identify the woody note of each composition. 3 @Bálint Pörneczi The Artichoke - First Movement The blue-purple color of its flower inspired the following notes : acidic, sweet, cork oak wood, violet Vegetal Movement and the main pigment is artichoke. The pea - Second movement A story between an artist A gourmet concentrate focused on the truth of the pea and its note of lichen moss. Steph Cop, a ceramist Catherine Sinicropi and an Zucchini - Third movement original kitchen signed An Azurean gustatory song with notes of smoky wood. Pollen musk and its nuances around Christian Sinicropi zucchini yellow or green. Price : €168 per person, The honey of Gourdon - Fourth movement beverage pairings Thyme fragrance and olive oil note. A sensation of freshness in the shade of the Riviera. 4 This aromatic exploration symbolizes the life cycle of the tree that is the raw material for Steph Cop’s oeuvre. The foods are paired with carefully chosen beverages that highlight each dish’s identity. The Hôtel Martinez simultaneously plays host to other works by Steph Cop, which guests can appreciate on the way from the entrance to the table via Le Jardin du Martinez. With its ambiguous shape, at once rudimentary and refined, the Robur oak sculpture of 2019, standing five feet and seven inches high, embodies the immanence of the tree. The work known as ARO, La Colonne 250 from 2018 is a deliberately interrupted form of a deconstructed sculpture in a fragment of a century-old ash, testament to the tree’s natural patterning. The bronze Black Raw, over seven feet tall, created in 2019, interprets an ash sculpted in cast iron, with black reflections underscoring the depth of life in the tree’s cracks and crevasses, revealing traces left by hand or tool. The 2020 bronze Cube is an extraction of the ARO sculpture’s aesthetics, with its consubstantial soul, a metaphor for the tree. A journey deep into a wooded wonderland, a land in which art meets gastronomy, awaits you at the Hôtel Martinez. This immersive sensory experience can be had only at La Palme d’Or restaurant. The C&C Sinicropi X Steph Cop table in Cannes’ only two-Michelin-star restaurant may be reserved for two to eight guests from April 7 to June 27, 2020. Price : €168 per person, beverage pairings 5 Steph Cop, a complete artist Steph Cop was born in 1968 in an under construction Paris. He grew up amongst the building of the « Quartier des Halles », popular heart of the capital, who would welcome with public attention, the « Centre Pompidou » and contemporary art. Between school next to the Louvre, the « Tuileries » and the Stravinski Fountains, two worlds would collide. His childhood playground is focused on Art history both straight and broken. In all this noise, the silence Steph Cop kept was louder than the tone of words. A new langage had to be found to come closer to the unspoken : invent, build, shape, to show his singularity. One dream : the « Boule » academy, but his voice lacked. The neighboorhood's library's art books spoke of other possible worlds. Loneliness was a vital necessity in order to welcome, with insatiable curiosity, what chaos could elaborate, it stayed with him. A first book bought about an exposition catologue that to this day is still so precious and reassuring that it should be counted amongs the actions that shape a future. Japonese art encyclopedias received as gifts, will echo in his adult life journey as well as the encounter of the singular ways existing to honor slow pace, refinement, and giving meaning to details. Japan : an anchor point possible, a land of deep ressource stowed under the surface of absurd potmodern excitement. Steph Cop doesn't compromise with lack of sens. His life choices are moulded by separations when insignificance presents itself. In the begining of his adulthood, the does it as a game. Some of his, then, compagnons would build their artistic reputation over it. Steph Cop chose to use it as primary material to manufacture, as a craftman would, lototyped textiles. Speaking with shapes, without poetry. The company would soon florish but the absurdity had to stop. The change of century would be radical for Steph Cop, who exiled himself to find abrupt features in the land of Morvan. @Bálint Pörneczi 6 Living in an unknown village house, with family roots not far away, he eventually found out this house once belonged to a water diviner met during childhood : it would become his art studio, because during this milestone was being written the genesis of A.R.O (for Analyse, Reflex, Obsessional) , a structure of language, that would create his Artwork. A.R.O was born thanks to a singular writting where words would articulate in shapes and volumes. The artist finds his focus and syntax, the way to speak in the first person, the way of composing with the unspoken. Beyond finding his environment, his gravity center, from which a creative energy can be deployed. A.R.O was designed from an imaginary cube, base of key words that soar from introspection. Woes used for words, finally seen with depth and elevation. Words take the shape of a sculpture. Steph Cop explores the land of Morvan by running everyday, confronting temporalities. He encounters trees, their intricacies, the traces of their past. You must cut dead wood for winter, an unexpecting handling of the chainsaw in a battle with the adaptable matter of wood. Art makes noise, just like the constructions did in his childhood setting. Art is born from silence, to break it Steph Cop learns from the trees, who while growing older, mould they own story. Shapes and lines testify of their vitality and flaws. Quercus Robus, the pedonculate oak, is a guardian figure. A.R.O becomes a shape sculpted from the stem of dead trees standing up or lying down. The evolution of A.R.O constitutes the work of Steph Cop, an exit from silence, the plot of life throughout destiny extended by trees. The research that is expressed in the series of shapes of the A.R.O is coming, for the artist, to an end. Steph Cop comes back to draw a new energy in the cube. A new creative impulse is in genesis, words will be articulated in new shaps, always sculpted in association with refinement and the strength of gravity. Prior studies of volumes by drawing are essential moments in this task. Writting and sculpting are also inseperable in Steph Cop's art project, who writes in his diary, daily : the architecture of words allows to remember fleeting thoughts which are at the root of @Bálint Pörneczi artwork in creation, they are an integral part of the sculpture.