“Ceramics” Exhibition

Vallois America

[Image: Raymond Waydelich "Kalashnikov"]

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Gallery Vallois America presents an exhibition, Ceramics, curated by Francis Delille Editions, with works created at the Tuilerie in Treigny, in France.

During his career Mr. Francis Delille produced nearly 1,300 editions including many with renown artists such as Francis Bacon, Robert Rauschenberg, Sam Francis, Roy Lichtenstein …

La Tuilerie of Treigny, located 190 kilometers from Paris is a former factory that manufactured tiles and bricks. Jean-Marie Foubert, a ceramist whose works will be discovered on the occasion of this group show, purchased the factory in 1991 when it was a place whose activity had ceased some 15 years earlier. Treigny, a small village of 400 inhabitants, is located on a land known for a strong sense of tradition for pottery which was undoubtedly one of the most active in France. Today there are many artisan potters who have settled there, and most are ceramic artists including some of the most prominent in France. La Tuilerie is a magic place where ancestral facilities still in perfect working order are installed side by side with ancient and large-scale kilns and dyers that are open to the four winds (see on cover).
Visitors to the exhibition will discover a variety of styles and tech- niques: the lyricism of Zao Wou-Ki, the polychrome rigor of Da- niel Buren, the intensity of Karel Appel, the graphics of Corneille, the chromatic density of Bram Bogart, the game of transparency of Chu Teh-Chun, the kinetics of Carlos Cruz Diez, the poetry of Jean-Michel Folon, the large technical ability of Jean-Marie Foubert, the tenderness of Yuri Kuper, the expressionism of Lindström, the gesture of Miotte and Monique Orsini, abstraction of Arthur Luiz Piza, the dream-like qualities of Karl Gunnar Pontus Hultèn, the Indian tradition of Raza, the imagination of Waydelich.

The second floor of the exhibition will be devoted entirely to the ceramics of Antonio Segui, graphic designer without equal whose work figures among the collection of MOMA, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, of the Kunsthalle Basel, of the Museum of Modern Art of the city of Paris and the National Museum of Modern Art, Center Georges Pompidou. Segui expresses himself directly on the clay while it is still malleable. The layout is repro- duced by stamping (elastomer mold) from the base artwork. Cer- tain patterns or characters are isolated or cast again to obtain the added reliefs. After drying and application of blacks, there is a first firing of up to 1900 degrees.

For the coloring, la Tuilerie performs in full agreement with the artist a monochrome surface treatment (blue of Sèvres, China red, yellow-orange etc…). In this case, the ceramic undergoes a second firing and often a third to obtain the intensity and desired effect.