27 APRIL – 4 JUNE
Presentation of the exhibitions – places must be reserved
Saturday 27 April at 4.30 pm
Sunday 28 April at 11.30 pm
Private viewing
Saturday 27 April at 6 pm
Discovery tours
Sundays 5 and 19 May, 2 June 11.30 am to 12.30 pm with Livia Dalbouse (ACLB)
Livia Dalbouse, 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 pm to 6 pm
Thierry Basile
Basile is born, hommage à LJUBA
The artist lives and works in Toulouse (31).
At 15, I was too young for the fine arts and too old for school, so I became a drifter. Six months later, I ended up working for ten months with Jean-Michel Savary, a potter/sculptor in Beauvais. The year after, in 1972, after listening to Gong at all the rock festivals, I turned up at La Borne to spend another winter in the warm. Nobody wanted me. I was so disgusted that I went off to pick grapes, to Amsterdam, to Morocco, to Larzac… Then, once I’d settled in Rouen, I took up the classical flute again, as well as painting and pottery. In 1980, I played in the Bourges musicians’ collective and fired pots in the workshops of Yves-Marie Dumortier and Charlotte Poulsen.
Since 1984, my studio has been in the centre of Toulouse, a city of musicians. My father was a farmer (I moved away from that, I’m a neo-urbanite now and I’m having a great time, there are lots of foreigners here, which is great, as long as they don’t leave me on my own!)
My pots can also be found at the Sèvres Museum and the Bernard Palissy Museum.
Thierry Basile
Vincent Barré
Sculptures
The artist lives and works in Paris, Normandy and the Loiret.
I was a frustrated potter who became an architect, then finally a sculptor. It was a roundabout way of getting there, but clay has always remained with me. As has La Borne, when I first came here on a Solex moped around 1964. At nighttime, I warmed myself up by Alexandre Foucher’s kiln, and then Yves Mohy hosted me. Much later, working with Gagan Daddhich, who was invited to come here as an artist-in-residence, I was to come back and fire in the community kiln.
What I’m exhibiting today are a few vestiges of those years. Large aluminium castings on an architectural scale, stoneware sets shaped using slabs and fired in a wood- fired kiln, smoked refractory clay. They are somewhere between constructed forms and moulded, more organic forms, all part of my method as a sculptor.
Clay, more than any other material, involves a sense of solidarity, the potters’ solidarity. My presence here is the culmination of a long chain of these friendships.
Vincent Barré, December 2023
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.