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Both deeply invested in exploring the alternative cultural scene, Halle Saint Pierre and HEY! modern art & pop culture continue their long and close collaboration with a sixth exhibition entirely dedicated to ceramics. If this medium occupies an increasingly visible place on the international art scene, the HEY! CERAMIQUE.S will show other forms which, from pop culture to art brut, unexpectedly emancipate themselves from all dominant norms and discourses to draw on the living forces of the imagination and the sensitive. Whether they are wise or delirious, wild or sophisticated, expressionist or narrative, whether they handle humor or emotion, the ceramic sculptures here carry excess but also poetry and innovations.
- Martine Lusardy, director of the Halle Saint Pierre and exhibition curator
- Anne Richard, guest curator and founder of the HEY! modern art & pop culture
HEY! CÉRAMIQUE.S
Musee de la Halle Saint Pierre, Paris, France | September 20, 2023 to August 14, 2024
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The exhibition brings together 34 artists from 13 countries. For some of them, this is their first presentation in Europe. Among the 250 works on offer, a third of the works are produced for the exhibition, which is also unprecedented. They encourage a new look at contemporary creation in the field of ceramics.
“I chose the artists and the works for their power of wonder and their force of evocation. The selection includes ceramists drawing on the history of the medium as well as artists escaping from it to use mixed techniques. An open discussion is thus initiated towards a living potential of ceramics – like so many gestures and plural forms leaning against it” affirms Anne Richard / HEY!
The purpose of the exhibition is therefore not to illustrate a history of ceramics nor to differentiate the varied and traditional techniques used in it, but rather to demonstrate the unprecedented dynamism that this practice is currently experiencing.
ARTISTS INCLUDE:
Amber AGUIRRE USA
Chris ANTEMANN USA
Delphine BONNET FRANCE
Christina BOTHWELL UNITED STATES
Melanie BOURGET FRANCE
Seyni Awa CAMARA SENEGAL
Mono CIEZA ARGENTINA
David COHEN FRANCE
Daphne CORREGAN FRANCE
Sarai DELFENDAHL FRANCE
Gerard ELI FRANCE
Thaddeus ERDAHL USA
Yurim GOUGH SOUTH KOREA
Maria GUILBERT FRANCE
HANDIEDAN NETHERLANDS
Stefan HOLZMÜLLER GERMANY
Masao KINOSHITA JAPAN
Lidia KOSTANEK POLAND
Joseph KURHAJEC UNITED STATES
Calvin MA USA
Beverly MAYERI USA
Crystal MOREY USA
Emmanuelle NOT FRANCE
Avery PALMER USA
Muriel PERSIL FRANCE
Nili PINCAS ISRAEL
RAAK FRANCE
Pierre SGAMMA FRANCE
Kim SIMONSSON FINLAND – SWEDEN
Carl Richard SÖDERSTRÖM SWEDEN
Kirsten STINGLE USA
Mara SUPERIOR USA
Ehren TOOL USA
Vivian VAN BLERK SOUTH AFRICA.
EXHIBITION CATALOG
- Released September 15, 2023
- Edited by Anne Richard Bilingual (French / English)
- 250 pages
- Shaped cover 28 x 24.5 cm
- Published by HEY! PUBLISHING
Long considered a minor art because of its particular status at the crossroads of art and craftsmanship, ceramics has emancipated itself artistically by making precisely this hybrid position the basis of its renewal. The truly alchemical dimension of the fire arts lends itself wonderfully to blurring and crossing boundaries. But if contemporary ceramic artists draw on timeless traditions and know-how, it is not so much out of nostalgia for the values of the past as to place at the center of creation a return to making and attention to materials in their sensitive dimension. Earth, water, air, fire are no longer simple materials that can be manipulated indifferently, they become the very substance of a material imagination intended to satisfy aesthetic and psychological urgencies.
— Martine Lusardy, Director and curator of exhibitions at the Halle Saint Pierre Museum
“Our overuse of resources has destroyed our planets natural resources. The skies churn, rivers flood, oceans rise, and forests burn. The world is a changed place, and the most vulnerable feel the affects first.”
Crystal Morey, Shaping Interconnectedness, essay by Maria Porges
“From there, [she], like many of us, sees the news, imagines the future, and find solace in the triumphant artworks of the past. She is chronicling our time, a unique and strange mix of hope in the ace of humanities greatest collective threat— ourselves.”
Mara Superior, Chronicling our Collective Hopes, essay by Lauren Levato-Coyne.
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Within a beautiful Baltard-style architecture, facing the gardens of the Butte Montmartre, the Halle Saint Pierre houses a museum and a gallery, a bookstore, an auditorium, a café. It is in this harmonious and luminous setting that the major temporary exhibitions and the multiple artistic and cultural activities dedicated to the most unexpected forms of creation are presented.
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