09.18.2019-01.19.2020
DE TERRE ET DE SOIE
Marie-Laure Guerrier et In-Sook Son
In-Sook Son and Marie Laure-Guerrier. These are the two contemporary creators that the Baur Foundation, Museum of Far Eastern Art, has chosen to bring together for a period of several months in an unprecedented encounter of ceramics and textiles. Sharing “cultural” and chromatic affinities, the two artists also have in common a similar and rare manner of experimenting with transfers of materials – ceramic, textile and paint – and the desire to explore all the possibilities offered by their respective crafts.
Vibrant, dynamic and enchanting, like silk rippling with the fluidity of air, the coverings of certain pieces turned by the French artist Marie-Laure Guerrier are striking for their textile-like appearance. To the fine porcelain cloths that seem to push the boundaries of ceramic’s potential for expression, to the sleek mellowness of celadons, luminous enamels, and crystallised stoneware, the artistic universe of In-Sook Son, a Korean embroiderer resident in Seoul, responds majestically. Working with the traditional materials and colours of Korea, she creates “paintings of silk” of unsettling virtuosity. Screens made from thread, marquetry composed of embroidery, trompe-l’oeil pojagi, the works of In-Sook Son transcend all our references and delight the eye.
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MARIE-LAURE GUERRIER
Graine, rouge de cuivre
Diamètre : 20 xm, hauteur 13 cm