The Ceramic Gesture

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The Ceramic Gesture

  • Début de l’exposition : 6 April 2024
  • Fin de l’exposition : 2 June 2024

At the heart of this exhibition, gesture becomes the protagonist, revealing the expertise and creativity of local ceramists. Each piece of pottery and each sculpture tells a story shaped by expert hands, bearing witness to know-how handed down from generation to generation.
The exhibition celebrates the fusion of tradition and innovation, with contemporary ceramists exploring new techniques while respecting ancestral methods. It’s an invitation to admire the diversity of styles and artistic approaches within the local ceramics community.

Les Collections de Saint-Cyprien is thus transformed into a veritable theater of gesture, where every movement becomes a dance between craftsman and material. The event promises to be a unique visual and emotional experience, highlighting the rich cultural heritage rooted in artisanal practice.

Whether you’re an art lover or simply curious to discover what goes on behind the scenes of ceramic creation. A vibrant tribute to human society and artistic authenticity that resonates through the touch of skilled artisans’ hands.

    LOSTE – CLAUDE PARENT-SAURA – BEATRIZ GARRIGO – ASSOCIATION TERRES CUITES -/PRIMOT

    PHOTO 1:

    Patrick LOSTE was born in Perpignan on September 20, 1955. Lives and works in the Albères. Represented by numerous galleries in France and Europe, he has been exhibiting since 1980. He takes part in numerous art events and international fairs. 2021 Galerie DX. Bordeaux – EC-Foire ART UP! – Castangalerie – L’Ille – 2020 : EC-Musée Rigaud. L’esprit du Lieu. Perpignan – EP-Musée de Belesta – EP-Galerie Confort des Etranges. Toulouse – EP- Castangalerie. Perpignan – EP-Galerie ARSET. Limoges. 2019: EP-Foire ART UP! Solo Show Castangalerie – L’Ille -Participation “Pour un Musée en Palestine” Salle Miro’. UNESCO Paris – EP-Galerie Yves Faurie. Sète – EP-Galerie DX. Bordeaux – Musée D’Histoire de Tarascon presented by Galerie Chantal Mélanson. Tarascon – EP-Galerie Nicole Buck. Strasbourg.

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    Born in July 1947, Claude Parent-Saura, a former student of Germain BONEL, has been researching and creating art for over 40 years. He began painting in 1980 with the Musicians series of free figuration, which he practiced for around five years. He was soon drawn to abstraction with the Disfigurations and Deformations series in 1985 and the Reliefs series in 1988. His work came to the attention of the Massanet gallery in Figuères, where he exhibited with Tapiès, Miro and Picasso, among others. On several occasions, he paid tribute to the HOPI Indians and the MAYAS by creating contemporary works, also in ceramics.

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    Beatriz Garrigo is a visual artist and ceramist born in Barcelona in 1958.
    Lives and works in the Pyrénées Orientales. Beatriz studied painting at the Beaux-Arts in her native Barcelona. Then, on the other side of the Catalan border, she learned to turn the famous red clay of La Bisbal. Each of her pieces is, in order, turned, dried, fired, painted, fired, glazed and fired one last time. Mimosa, pomegranate, blue, sunshine yellow, fish, cement grey, flower, peony red, coal black; his colorful works are made for everyday use and sold in museums and art galleries.

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    Founded in 1998, the “Terres cuites” association, based at the Joseph PRIMOT private museum in Saint-Cyprien, aims to preserve and promote our pottery heritage to specialists, novices and enthusiasts alike. The “Terres cuites” association has published a number of works:Utilitarian and traditional pottery from Morocco la gargoulette méditerranéenne, exhibition catalog: galerie des Hospices, Canet en Roussillon, Saint-Cyprien, Terres cuites, 2001 Traditional pottery Jean Marie GIORGIO, Michel PRIMOT, exhibition catalog: les tres cases, Perpignan, Saint Cyprien, Terres cuites, 2005 Potier à terre: un métier oublié? Jeanine BECAT-SAGNOL, Saint-Cyprien, Terres cuites, 2010Roussillon pottery Michel PRIMOT, Brigitte PAYROU-NEVEU, essai de classification, Saint-Cyprien, Terres cuites, 2014

    PHOTO 5

    The BOISSET pottery began its activity around 1610. At that time, it produced all kinds of utilitarian pottery, including oil jars, olive jars, jugs, basins for spinning mills and everyday crockery, as well as bricks, tiles and “mahons”. In the mid-18th century, legend has it that a Cévenol potter went to the Beaucaire fair, an important trading center between the plains and the Cévennes. He was seduced by the elegance of the Medici vases and the opulent decoration of the Florentine ones. Back home, he was inspired to create a model. The spirit and rigor of the Cévennes make for a stockier, more rustic vase. He adorned it with a garland and a crest: the BOISSET vase was born. Monumental, it was used to plant the orange and lemon trees that adorned the gardens of Louis XIV’s Court. Over the centuries, Boisset pottery has been handed down from father to son. For four generations, pottery has been handed down from mother to daughter. Today, the Enfants de Boisset skillfully perpetuate the work of their forebears.