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#Jacques Monneraud
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All photographs © Jacques Monneraud, shared with permission
At first look, you’d be forgiven for pondering that if any of Jacques Monneraud’s vessels had been full of water, they’d soak proper by way of and cut up on the seams. And that’s precisely what the artist desires you to suppose! Extremely, these vessels are fabricated from clay.
Monneraud’s items seem light-weight and virtually haphazard, as if repurposed shortly from corrugated cardboard. After all, solely meticulous consideration to element may end in such implausible visible trickery. “I really liked the idea of being able to freeze fragility,” he tells Colossal.
The artist started working with ceramics solely three years in the past, establishing a studio in southwest France the place he continues to experiment and broaden upon his love for the medium. His new curiosity developed virtually by likelihood, following one thing of a artistic drought. He says:
I began as a graphic designer/illustrator and shortly grew to become a artistic director in an promoting firm. Throughout these years, I progressively drifted away from what I liked to do within the first place, which was creating. As somebody who grew up in a household of artists and makers, I all the time pictured myself working with my fingers sometime. However right here I used to be, spending hours in conferences discussing model methods. After I realized that, I made a decision that it was time to provide this dream a attempt. After a couple of months trying to find this “maker job,” I stumbled upon a video of somebody working on the potter’s wheel. I used to be immediately hooked.
Monneraud instantly booked a workshop to be taught the fundamentals, and some weeks later, he stop his job to pursue pottery full-time. Via the inherent strategy of trial and error, he discovered and grew from failure. “I was unsuccessfully trying to obtain a specific glaze effect that I love, so I started thinking about a ‘raw collection’ made of unglazed pieces,” he says.
Researching and testing is an inextricable a part of of Monneraud’s every day strategy within the studio. Via an intuitive course of of mixing various kinds of clay and a wide range of consistencies, he landed on a mixture that evoked the feel of cardboard. He knew he was onto one thing when a good friend visited his studio, and standing solely inches from the work, requested, “Oh, you’re working with cardboard now?” Monneraud had achieved the thrilling optical impact he was trying to find. And the icing on the cake, so to talk, is the exact software of skinny glaze, like a delicately-applied piece of clear tape.
Monneraud’s work might be on view throughout Saint-Sulpice Céramique in Paris from June 27 to 30. Discover extra on his web site and Instagram.
#ceramics
#clay
#Jacques Monneraud
#pottery
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