ROCKSTONE BY WILMOTTE

Dutko gallery is pleased to present ROCKSTONE BY WILMOTTE from March 19th to May 31st 2026, an exhibition featuring some fifteen original creations designed and produced expressly for the gallery by the French architect, urban planner and designer Jean-Michel Wilmotte. The exhibition is further enriched by a dialogue with Jean-Pierre Pincemin’s artworks.

Thanks to a close collaboration and long-time friendship between the architect and the gallery owner Jean-Jacques Dutko, the Rockstone collection displays architectural rigor combined with a sculptural character bringing together stone, metal and glass in a quest for balance. Made from different types of marble, granite and limestone, these pieces are the result of a careful selection process in which each block of stone was chosen for its uniqueness. 

On the initiative of Jean-Michel Wilmotte, this narrative of contrasts and balances between forms and materials engages in a dialogue with the paintings of the French painter Jean-Pierre Pincemin (1944-2005), always sensitive to materials as carriers of memory. Thus, a fruitful interaction opens up to the themes of construction, materiality and gesture.

JEAN- MICHEL WILMOTTE

Born in 1948 in Soissons and graduated from École Camondo, Jean-Michel Wilmotte is an architect, urban planner, designer and Member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts. In 1975 he founded the architectural firm Wilmotte & Associés Architects which is active in nearly 30 countries and has been ranked among the 100 largest architecture firms in the world since 2010.

His creations and projects stand out for elegance and attention to details and materials. His vision based on preservation and innovation is promoted by his agency—equipped with a digital laboratory combining artificial intelligence and high-tech tools—as well as by Fondation Wilmotte and Prix W. 

His iconic projects are the museum displays at the Louvre and the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, the Grand Palais Éphémère, Station F in Paris and the Allianz Riviera stadium in Nice. Among the several international projects, the Centre Pompidou x Hanwha in Seoul and the ArcelorMittal headquarters in Luxembourg are worth mentioning.