7 JUNE – 15 JULY
Presentation of the exhibitions – places must be reserved
Saturday 7 June at 4.30 pm
Sunday 8 June at 11.30 am
Private viewing
Saturday 7 June at 6 pm
Discovery tours
Sundays 15 June and 6 July 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.
Conditions: standard exhibition admission fee apples.
Open everyday from 11 am to 6 pm until 27 June and from 11 am to 7 pm from 28 June
Pierre Amourette
Sur les rives de l’émotion
The artist lives and works in Val-au-Perche (Orne ).
Pierre Amourette was born in Jersey in 1947, and has spent his entire career in education in the Perche department. After working with stone and wood, a chance event in his professional life led him to discover ceramics as a medium of expression.
His creations enable him to tell stories. The pieces are often ambivalent in character. Mother and child are a recurring theme, but he also creates jars, dishes, scenes from everyday life, carnivals, and so on.
Each work allows the observer to interpret it through their own emotions.
Each work is a veritable vocabulary and expresses something that words cannot.
Arlette Legros
Spécimen
The artist lives and works in Neuilly-en-Sancerre (Cher).
For many years, Arlette Legros has mainly worked with clay slabs. She bends, lifts, folds and stretches them until they reflect the emotion she is feeling.
Working in harmony with the clay, she prefers curves to angular shapes. Her forms stretch as much as they ground themselves. Soon a being will come to life, the tribe of chubby, round-cheeked figures accompanying slender, graceful forms.
They are all different but have the same origins. After they are born, Arlette observes, corrects and refines them; s, and soon she imagines their future decoration.
Glaze will form the skin of her creations, sometimes covered with leather, sometimes rough with scales, covered in foam, the transparency of stones or the dryness of the desert.
She also finds fulfilment and freedom in the glazing which is applied to each piece according to its specific requirements. She superimposes on them, but her free, vigorous movement does not spare the clay, so that in its final stage it can be marked by the gentle caress of the flame. In her kiln, Mephistopheles, she carries out short, energetic firings; the long firings are carried out in different reclining kilns.
Philippe Joseph Baschet
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, Jean-François Thierion, Diane Truti, Jean-Pol Urbain, Émilie Vanhaecke, Nirdosh Petra van Heesbeen, Claude Voisin, David Whitehead, Seungho Yang.