15 MARCH – 3 JUNE
Presentation of the exhibitions – places must be reserved
Saturday 15 March at 4.30 pm
Sunday 16 March at 11.30 am
Private viewing
Saturday 15 March at 6 pm
Discovery tours
Sundays 6 April, 20 April, 4 May, 18 May and 1 June from 11.30 am to 12.30 pm.
Nicole Crestou, ceramist of the Ceramics Association of La Borne, will be on hand to guide you through the exhibitions – an opportunity not to be missed for outreach and the sharing of ideas.
Nicole Crestou: 6-20 April, 4 May, 1st June.
Jeltje Borneman: 18 May
Conditions: standard exhibition admission fee apples.
Open everyday from 11 am to 6 pm
Jean-Claude Legrand
Carrés de terre
The artist lives and works in Mons (Belgium).
The artist lives and works in Mons (Belgium).
The square is the starting point and the primary component of my work.
A compass and ruler are the only tools I use, and they enable me transfer my designs to the firm clay slabs.
By cutting and assembling them, I create structured forms within which spaces open up, inviting the mind to enter – improbable, protective architectures, punctuated by narrow slits opening to the outside.
The flaws in the surface, the texture of the clay and the geometric lines are all retained, and serve to enhance the composition.
Both graphically and chromatically, colour imposes a sober atmosphere. Shades of grey with rust and bluish tinges sit alongside coal-black and graphite.
The square is fully incorporated into my process.
It is a work tool and imposes its own rules, and I am left with the choice of accepting or rejecting them.
Jean-Claude Legrand
Thierry Leproust
Un regard…
The Museum of Old Stoneware that he has created in Premery bears witness to his passion for this subject. Ever since the end of the 1980s, he has been acquiring the works of some thirty contemporary artists from La Borne.
The starting point for this book and the exhibition that accompanies it was to show, together and in parallel, part of our contemporary collection at La Borne and my own visual work. I thought it would be interesting to contrast and exhibit two worlds in the same place – the Contemporary Ceramics Centre of La Borne. In the spirit of Japanese wabi sabi, I would say that true luxury lies in simplicity, rigour, humility, discretion and silence, criteria that invite us to take a discerning look at the beauty, interiority and depth of a work of art. This is what I have often sensed in La Borne’s stoneware.
Shape, material, colour, it’s all there…
Thierry Leproust
For this exhibition, the CCCLB has published a 164-page catalogue, which is on sale from 15 March 2025 onwards.
Association Céramique La Borne
Permanent artistists
The ceramists:
Céline Alfroid Nicolas, Éric Astoul, Françoise Blain, Laurence Blasco Mauriaucourt, Jeltje Borneman, Myriam Bouchard, Patricia Calas Dufour, Fabienne Claesen, Dominique Coenen, Isabelle Cœur, Nicole Crestou, Suzanne Daigeler, Dalloun, Stéphane Dampierre, Bernard David, Marie David Géhin, Corinne Decoux, Ophélia Derely, Claude Gaget, Agnès Galvao, Dominique Garet, Geneviève Gay, Pep Gomez, Frans Gregoor, Catherine Griffaton, Jean Guillaume, Claudie Guillaume Charnaux, Viola Hering, Roz Herrin, Svein Hjorth-Jensen, Jean Jacquinot, Pierre Jaggi, Anne-Marie Kelecom, Labbrigitte, Daniel Lacroix, Jacques Laroussinie, Arlette Legros, Dominique Legros, Christine Limosino Favretto, Claire Linard, Machiko Hagiwara, François Marechal, Joël Marot, Élisabeth Meunier, Maya Micenmacher Rousseau, Francine Michel, Marylène Millérioux, Mélanie Minguès, Isabelle Pammachius, Nadia Pasquer, Christine Pedley, Lucien Petit, Charlotte Poulsen, Françoise Quiney, Michèle Raymond, Mia Refslund Jensen, Anne Reverdy, Sylvie Rigal, Alicia Rochina, Hervé Rousseau, Nicolas Rousseau, Lulu Rozay, Karina Schneiders, Georges Sybesma, Diane Truti, Jean-Pol Urbain, Émilie Vanhaecke, Nirdosh Petra van Heesbeen, Claude Voisin, David Whitehead, Seungho Yang.