19 OCTOBER- 31 DECEMBER
Exhibitions Marit Kathriner, Maya Micenmacher et Permanence artistique ACLB
Presentation of the exhibitions – places must be reserved
Saturday 19 October at 4.30 pm
Sunday 20 October at 11.30 pm
Private viewing
Saturday 19 October at 6 pm
Discovery tours
Sundays 3 and 17 November 11.30 am to 12.30 pm.
Laurence Blasco Mauriaucourt, 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 Volume 3 – Cylindre ACLB et Permanence artistique ACLB
Presentation of the exhibitions – places must be reserved
Saturday 23 November at 4.30 pm
Sunday 24 November at 11.30 pm
Private viewing
Saturday 23 November at 6 pm
Discovery tours
Sundays 1 and 15 December 11.30 am to 12.30 pm.
Laurence Blasco Mauriaucourt, , 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
19 OCTOBER – 31 DECEMBER
Marit Kathriner
Un corps épais de temps
The artist lives and works in Saint-Denis-de-Jouhet (36).
The main preoccupation of Swiss-born Marit Kathriner, who now lives in the Berry region of France, appears to bereconciling humanity with the living world. Her sculptures always express a vital impetus, the intuition of a gesture or the beginnings of a choreography that could merge the human body and the plant kingdom. In her sculptures, everything speaks symbiotically of the wild strength of the plant-body, of fragility, energy and growth.
Frédéric Bodet
19 OCTOBER – 19 NOVEMBER
Maya Micenmacher
Happiness is Only Real when Shared
The artist lives and works in Ivoy-le-Pré (18).
Maya Micenmacher’s designs change from one season to the next – small commas, round and square spots, splashes, geometric sequences unrolled in strips, pictorial graphics with broad, vivid strokes. They are black (a black that can veer towards dark green and often turns indigo) on a white background that has been turned ivory by the glaze, sometimes enhanced by a touch of green or red. She draws them in series, depending on her inspiration. The pieces are glazed with a feldspar and ash glaze. The dipper leaves bare spaces that retains the roughness of the chamotte grain and take on unexpected colours in the wood-fired kiln.
Carole Andréani
18 OCTOBER – 3 NOVEMBER
Photographic reportage at La Borne (late 1950s)
(1920-2003) and (1925-2003)
As part of the festival AR(t)CHIPEL
Véra Cardot and Pierre Joly were photographers who were specialists in the fields of architecture and sculpture. Their collaboration began in 1959, with them focusing on sculpture and especially the intimate world of the artists themselves in the very heart of their studios, before broadening out to architecture and adopting the same approach to the creative process.
Unafraid to enter the private world of studios and workshops, they shared the view that light is shed on works of art both by their context and the biography of whoever is creating them. Their reportages often covered much more than just the initial subject, as is shown in this selection of images from La Borne and the work of ceramist Elisabeth Joulia (1925-2003) and the village of potters.
Véra Cardot was a photographer and visual artist who was born in Budapest in 1920. When she was 5 years old, her family emigrated to France. She married Claude Cardot, a telecommunications engineer, and became a journalist and reporter as the Second World War was coming to an end. Upon moving to Dakar, she campaigned against colonialism, and her communist views continued to develop.
Pierre Joly was born in 1925 in Paris and was a photographer, art critic and teacher. While studying at the Ecole du Louvre, his plan was to become an archaeologist in China, but this was thwarted by Mao’s rise to power. He took a job as a parliamentary secretary, devoting his spare time to visiting museums and galleries. From 1957, he worked as an art critic and photographer for La Nouvelle Critique and Lettres Françaises.
Véra Cardot and Pierre Joly began collaborating in 1959. Their initial passion was sculpture. In 1960, meeting André Bloc steered their work decisively towards architecture. Their work was soon published in important publications like Plaisirs de France, Architecture d’Aujourd’hui and Technique et Architecture. Their familiarity with the architects of their day honed their critical eye.
In 1967, Pierre Joly started teaching architecture at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts then the Ecole d’Architecture de Paris. He was a regular contributor, preferring multidisciplinary publications such as Le Jardin des Arts and L’Oeil, where, from 1972 to 1974 alongside Véra Cardot, he ran the architecture section. Their reports included cultural and political contexts, the environment and the living world. Their use of photography led to a new way of using images – beyond testimonial or illustrative purposes, they were to become tools for understanding.
24 AUGUST- 24 SEPTEMBER
Association Céramique La Borne
Volume 3 – Cylindre
Following on from the Sphere in 2022 and the Cube in 2023, the members of the Ceramics Association of La Borne are turning their attention to the Cylinder. This long- term collective exploration of volumes aims to produce something unique.
Prosaically, a cylinder is “a solid form obtained by rotating a rectangle around one of its sides”. As such, it lends itself to all shaping techniques – throwing, slab work, stamping, modelling, coils, etc. For someone who throws utilitarian pieces, it could be a goblet, a rolled vase, a jug or a bottle if it has a neck. For sculptors, it lends itself to totemic and architectural bases. Whether it is upright or horizontal, the cylinder combines both the line and curve of the circle. When presented as part of an installation, it can become a forest, a crowd, a row of pillars, or take on a thousand and one appearances, from stovepipes to Assyrian and Babylonian amulets, from printing rollers to finials, and so on. Sources of inspiration can be found in both art history and everyday objects.
The exhibitions of the forms that have already been exhibited have won over the public, who were quick to appreciate the artistic approach of each work produced, and to try and identify who created it. The theme imposed and accepted as a constraint has the virtue of taking the artists into territory that is sometimes unexplored.
Laurence Blasco Mauriaucourt
THE PARTICIPANTS
Eric Astoul – Laurence Blasco Mauriaucourt – Jeltje Borneman – Myriam Bouchard – Claudie Charnaux – Dominique Coenen – Nicole Crestou – Suzanne Daigeler – Ophélia Derely – Jean Guillaume – Machiko Hagiwara – Anne-Marie Kelecom – Jacques Laroussinie – Labbrigitte – Daniel Lacroix – Arlette Legros – Dominique Legros – Élisabeth Meunier – Francine Michel – Maya Micenmacher – Marylène Millerioux – Isabelle Pammachius – Lucien Petit – Charlotte Poulsen – Michèle Raymond – Sylvie Rigal – Karina Schneiders – Nirdosh Petra van Heesbeen – Claude Voisin.
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.