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Ceramics in Young Contemporary Creation

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The Galerie Lefebvre & Fils, bringing together eleven ceramics artists from around the world, presents a show entitled Tout feu Tout flamme from March 19 to May 31, in Paris.

The artists participating are Florian Bézu, Ryan Blackwell, Robin Cameron, Patricia Camet, Dewar & Gicquel, Mimosa Echard, David Gallagher, Chloé Jarry, Morgane Tschiember and the Greek Kostis Velonis. The work of these eleven ceramic artists has been gathered together in an exhibition organized by curator Alexis Jakubowicz. The exhibition aspires to illustrate in a perfect way the continuing vitality of ceramics in the modern creative arts.

Young artists from Lima to Athens, from Paris to New York have conquered the most ancient fire-based art form. This primeval form of art, even more ancient than glass and metal making, has given birth to a vast array of artistic techniques and visions.

Certain artists, like Chloé Jarry and Patricia Camet, take objects from everyday life and convert them into ceramic works of art.

“This is how we can best understand Tout feu Tout flame; art that is about the very spirit of exhilaration that has its being in art itself, with artistic convention being smoked out and destroyed, no matter where it tries to hide. First into the flames are desires, wings and eyes. Here, raw art is a dish best eaten cooked. Hereby, the young artists, who as makers of ceramics share a common bond, take their place in a pseudomythological story, each having their own reasons for doing so. Their ceramic artworks, regardless of their exact composition, have seemingly just emerged from the primeval earth. The very fact of bringing them into the open, into the light, might seem enough to seal their fate – to be turned into museum pieces – at least as a protection against their supposed fragility. This, however, is where we would be wrong: to choose pottery is to accept the scorched earth school of art, to agree to a degree of violence or force in the midst of finesse,’’ said Jakubowicz.

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