Four hands at work
Every piece created in the workshop is the result of a four handed effort: I design and model, while Lukáš shapes the clay together, we supervise each ceramic piece until it is completed. Lukáš Vilkolak, young Czech engineering student, arrived in Durtal in 2004. He was first employed at the Soleil d’Ombre workshop, which I shared […]
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Beyond the worskshop walls
My work is driven by a desire tories. Over the past years, I began sharing my experience and knowledge through conferences and masterclasses (Kéramis Centre, La Louvière). It is during such exchanges that I can step back, and benefit from different approaches.
Portrait
My first encounter with the ceramic material is along with Je découvre la céramique auprès de Jacqueline Lerat aux Beaux-Arts de Bourges. Elle m’enseigne l’exigence de présence à l’atelier, en même temps que l’ouverture vers l’art contemporain. Dès mes premières commandes, j’entre dans le monde du design en travaillant pour les Nouveaux Barbares et la […]
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The colour lab
Before being a ceramist, I am a painter and colour is my language. One of my two studios is dedicated together, interact and contradict themselves. The walls evolve as a constant reflection of the ongoing projects. As an experimental library, they support my creative process providing a clear view of my research.
…Necessary
“… These idle furnitures compel an absolute art necessity, their uselessness questions us.” JP Hache With a final collection in 2009, the Petits Meubles [Small furnitures] show themselves at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs and at the Royal Abbey of Fontevraud.
…and Absolutely…
“…Every furniture is movable; these particular tables move the lines of functional ceramics. Their radiant beauty and seductive feminine allure cast a shadow on colorlessness convenience… ” JP Hache In 2005, when I came back from Mexico, I freely adapted the Small Useless but Absolutely Necessary Furniture as an exercice in style. The resulting works were […]
The Small Useless Furniture…
“Nor vases, neither kettledrum… Earthenware architectures, shapes, colours, token of a creative motion. Armelle Benoit’s Small Useless but Absolutely Necessary Furniture are not objects but beings. Little clay people defying contingency. They observe, and show us…” JP Hache The Small Useless but Absolutely Necessary Furniture were born during my one year residence in Mexico within the Villa […]
Gérard Garouste
For the benefit of a humanitarian project, the French artist decided to a painting.
Answering Tawatchai
Since Tawatchai and I met, an epistolary exchange started. Beyond words, our conversations where enhanced by our artworks echoing one another. Once upon a time, a house, and afterward… a watering can.
Miquel Barceló
It would be the story of an encounter, the meeting of a man with a an element: clay… Preparing an exhibition at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in 2000, the artist from Mallorca came over to work in our workshop for almost a year.
Georgics
It is through the combination of two wishes – Gérard Garouste’s, who wanted to see his paintings in an architectural space; and mine, who wanted interpret his pictural language using a different medium, ceramic – that the dialogue existed and the artwork was born.
The Crack
We put all our efforts for the creation of a work, a monumental mural… and then, at the opening of the oven, something weird appears, something that bother us, a black trail. Irregular, it breaks the surface introducing a breach: the panel cracked. My disappointment is huge, although, with time, the unexpected raises awareness. The […]
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Solo show “Meetings” Mouvements Modernes Gallery
From the 10th tober 2018 – 29 rue de Seine Paris 6. Walls shape our human landscapes. From Beijing tories, and their decay shows unexpected palimpsests. They have many different functions but they all ask the same enigma : « Given a wall, what is going on behind it ?* » The reminiscences of the […]
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National memorial of Montreuil-Bellay
The official recognition of the outrages suffered by the nomads …..in France betwenn 1940 and 1946 was the Version anglaise la reconnaissance officielle des outrages subis par les nomades internés en France entre 1940 et 1946 a donné lieu à l’édification d’un mémorial, à proximité des vestiges du camp de Montreuil-Bellay, ou 473 personnes ont […]
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Like a thin water trickle
finding its way between the rocks covered with moss just as merrily I went through this life Ryokan
Combs
Tables can sometimes mistake themselves for something they are not. For the Lilliputian, they become architectural spaces to be explored… Tables, 2012, enamelled stoneware, 0,45×0,84×0,70 m – 0,45×0,86×0,67 m – 0,45×0,95×0,91 m, AD Intérieurs, Artcurial. For Pierre Yovanovitch.
Manta rays
Sixteen light sculptures, 2014, enamelled stoneware, 80-90×40-50 cm, Paris. For Pierre Yovanovitch.
One-on-one
Two open rectangles interact but don’t match, allowing the light to pass trough.
Urvater
Between 2013 and 2016, in the context of the extension of a villa (by Marie-Christine Dorner) designed itself as an artwork , I create a monumental mural. The translation of a thirty centimetres model into be painted.
Green variations
I designed this mural as a continuum of the garden, and hence, an opportunity to develop a variety of greens.
Armelle Benoit & the Twenty First Gallery – New York
76 FranklinStreet, New York, NY 10013. The Twenty First Gallery represents Armelle Benoit in the United-States. © Photo 21st Gallery
Pierre Yovanovitch and R&Company at Design Miami Basel
During the Design Miami Basel fair – 12th-17th of June 2018 – the interior architect Pierre Yovanovitch and the New-York gallery R&Company exhibit tools and a table displaying ceramics by Armelle Benoit.
I painted this fresco as much as it painted me
Ceramic and architecture: ceramic as mural art – Study day at the Kéramis Centre, on the 20th of January 2018, La Louvière. Armelle Benoit will present the creation process she experienced during the elaboration of a monumental mural, completed in 2014, for the contemporary villa of a Brussels art collecto the space it occupies.
The experience of colour at the CITÉ DE LA CÉRAMIQUE, SÈVRES
From the 17th of Octo the 2nd of April 2018. Celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Centre Pompidou, the exhibition «The experience of colour» tackles the fundamental question of the artists’ perception of colours. Inside this exhibit, four of my sculptures along with my “colour sketchbooks” – a collection of large enamelled ceramic tiles, evidence of my […]
Idem, 19th international biennial of ceramics, Châteauroux
From the 8th of July to the 17th of Septembre 2017 – Couvent des Cordeliers, Châteauroux. Armelle Benoit // Anthony Girardi // Virgile Loyer. Three artists who don’t know each other. The encounter occurred because they shared a conception of the tear as a link between what is visible and what is invisible. “The tear […]
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Fragments at the Salon H Gallery
From the 27th of Novembre 2015 to the 6th of February 2016 – 6/8 rue de Savoie, Paris 8. Eager to inhabit space and develop a technical, graphical and chromatic vocabulary. In the light of the event, the artist designed a unique display offering an immersive experience in her creative universe. Extraits du dossier de […]
Setkání/Meeting – Zdena Strobachová & Armelle Benoit at the Galeria Perla
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Circuit of Ceramics at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs
From the 17th of September 2010 to the 20th of February 2011 – Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris 1. Echoing the 44th general assembly of the International Academy of Ceramics organized by the Ateliers d’art de France, the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Sèvres – Cité de la Céramique, the Collection gallery and forty other galleries […]
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Ornament: from colour…to white, at the Bernard-Palissy Museum
The last exhibition of the Ornament cycle, initiated by the Bernard-Palissy Museum in 2004, is designed as a themed walk: from colour to white. Pascal Lacroix
FUNKY ZEN with Pierre Staudenmeyer and MOUVEMENTS MODERNES
From the 18th of January to the 25th of February 2006 at the Vieux Colombier, Paris 6.
Armelle Benoit Ceramics at the Clara Scremini Gallery
From the 22nd of April to the 14th of May 2005 – 99 rue Quincampoix, Paris 3
