Serban Ionescu’s Mutant Hook

Romanian artist Serban Ionescu calls us from his Paris studio, seated at his desk scattered with scraps of wild shapes and cutouts. He moves fluidly between sculpture, painting, design, and architecture, bending notions of space and utility along the way. The Mutant Hooks emerged from the liminal spaces traversed by a drawn line, from the spontaneity of a doodle to the unpredictability of the free hand. Mischievous, magical, odd, and endearing, these mutating shapes are as unusual as they are gentle. Inside Serban’s landscape of wobbly lines and mysterious protagonists, the Mutant Hooks hang somewhere between function and fantasy.