19 JULY – 26 AUGUST
Presentation of the exhibitions – places must be reserved
Saturday 19 July at 4.30 pm
Sunday 26 August at 11.30 am
Private viewing
Saturday 19 July at 6 pm
Discovery tours
Sundays 3 and 17 August from 11.30 am to 12.30 pm.
A 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 7 pm
Monica Mariniello
Matrices
The artist, originally from Italy, lives and works in Montreuil (Seine-Saint-Denis).
Her famous heads, with white, blue, red and grey patches emerging here and there, give each face its own unique character and have the special ability to immediately capture the attention. Perhaps because they remind us of some ancient figures, perhaps because they seem to illustrate, with perfect simplicity, the ephemeral presence of humankind on earth… The embodiment of a moment stolen from time seems to materialise before our eyes – a faint smile, a satisfied pout, a grimace, surrender.
Monica Mariniello manages to breathe the illusion of an eternity into her rough, untreated sculptures, all vibrant with materials, and to persuade us that from the top of each metal rod, there are twenty centuries looking down on us. A kind of infinite reflection. . . that makes you feel dizzy.
Benoît Ladune
Les Engobés
Éléments
Marie Balme and Simon Bellégo represent Les Engobés collective. The artists live and work in Ploemel (Morbihan).
For the last 20 years, we have mainly focused on the setting, combining figuration, comic strips and graphic inspirations.
Oxide liquids, mass colouring agents and slips are applied to thrown or modelled pottery.
We enjoy playing with colour and lines, allowing the unexpected and a little bit of chance to take over, and, more recently, experimenting with different tools, paint rollers, squeegees and brushes to add texture and depth.
This exhibition represents a sidestep in our work on form and it paves the way to more abstract, liberated structures. They can be three-dimensional, mounted from coils of clay or made from simple fragments of clay slabs, and many of them will be assembled together to form compositions with no specific function.
Thus, these elements which together form the basis of our graphic expression will be able to interact with each other.
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.