20 JULY- 24 SEPTEMBER
Exhibitions Michał Puszczyński, Ingrid van Munster and ACLB
Presentation of the exhibitions – places must be reserved
Saturday 20 July at 4.30 pm
Sunday 21 July at 11.30 pm
Private viewing
Saturday 20 July at 6 pm
Discovery tours
Sundays 4 and 18 August 11.30 am to 12.30 pm with Jeltje Borneman (ACLB)
Jeltje Borneman, 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.
Exhibitions Seungho Yang and ACLB
Presentation of the exhibitions – places must be reserved
Saturday 24 August at 4.30 pm
Sunday 25 August at 11.30 pm
Private viewing
Saturday 24 August at 6 pm
Discovery tours
Sundays 1 and 15 September 11.30 am to 12.30 pm with Dominique Legros. (ACLB)
Dominique Legros, 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
To 22 September: from 11 pm to 7 pm
From 23 September: from 11 pm to 6 pm
20 JULY – 24 SEPTEMBER
Michał Puszczyński
Out of the Earth and Fire
The artist lives and works in Poland.
Michał Puszczyński explores a modern context for using ceramics within sculpture and installations. He combines wood-firing techniques from Japan and Korea with abstract and expressionist sculpture. His work conveys
a sense of decomposition, sparking a dialogue with the material, which he constantly subjects to processes of erosion and disintegration. Their ascetic character and references to archaic forms of sculpture leave a deep impression, reminding the viewer of the essential forces of nature. His works create a place for contemplation and ask fundamental questions about transience and time.
Michał Puszczyński, PhD (1976), is one of Poland’s leading ceramic artists. He works at the Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław, the Faculty of Ceramics and Glass and the Faculty of Sculpture. As a pioneer in wood-fired ceramic
techniques, he built the first anagama kiln in Poland in 1999. He has taken part in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Europe, Asia and the United States. He is a Fulbright Scholar, a member of the International Academy
of Ceramics (IAC) and a former advisor to the European Ceramics Centre (EKWC).
20 JULY – 20 AUGUST
Ingrid van Munster
Étrange nature
The artist lives and works in Limbrassac (09).
I came across clay 30 years ago, and I’ve progressed along an artistic path which, starting with the bowl in my teens – and never really leaving it – has led me to other kinds of shapes, colours and textures.
In the end, it’s all just a way of expressing myself, a means of expressing the emotions that flow through me.
This year, I have created pieces based on the measurements of the Blue Baril, to create columns of Greenery. At the same time, I’ve continued to create small and large Planets and some Passages, which for me are pieces that evoke something relating to Nature – or another nature…
Very clearly, colour is a material, just like clay. If I listen to it, I can take it further and play with its specific characteristics so that in turn, it takes me further. You think you’re working on the right way to apply a glaze, and when you take it out of the kiln – if you’ve got it right – you’re somewhere else – in a patch of sky, under a tree or at the bottom of a stream… But very close to yourself, with the brutal emotion of a fresh image. On a single piece perhaps. But that’s something!
24 AUGUST- 24 SEPTEMBER
Seungho Yang
Esprit de Corée
The artist lives and works between South Korea and Montigny (18).
Seungho Yang is an exceptional artist who was born into a poor family of peasant fishermen in Korea. He was never destined for such a career, yet Yang now enjoys international acclaim.
He initially trained at Dankook University in Seoul, but then made the apparently paradoxical decision to move to Europe in the early 1980s, attempting to understand Korean aesthetics. He sought “somewhere else”, far enough away from his homeland to find the distance he needed to unravel the mysteries of the Korean soul. After spending some time in England, he took up residence in the famous village of La Borne. It was here that he developed his “ceramic genius”, the main inspiration for which remains the traditions of his homeland.
The current exhibition, entitled Esprit de Corée, takes place forty years after Yang’s first exhibition at La Borne. It is devised by the artist to be a form of contemplation after four decades of creative work at La Borne “in a Korean
spirit”.
Mathilde Morin
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.