Go baroque, Go porcelain!

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This porcelain workshop explores the art of the table – table decoration, tableware and table setting – as a means for staging the presentation of food. Imprinting, stamping and casting will serve as tools for the creation of forms; the colour white, the surface, the translucence present themselves as aspects of appearance. Objects will be generated that fulfil a useful function but can also stand on their own as individual pieces.

Naturalized animals, game and fish will provide further sources of inspiration, as a repertoire of forms and textures for the production of unique individual pieces or multiple objects. The research on the creation of forms will unfold as a course with successive stages: from the invention of forms to the prototype to the firing of the porcelain.

This workshop means to be an artistic summer retreat between "vanity" and baroque design.

For the fourth consecutive time, we offer a porcelain workshop in cooperation with ENSA). Due to the high success of this workshop over the previous years, we are happy to offer two porcelain sessions for the 2008 Programme. Still in partnership with the National Higher School of Arts (ENSA) of Limoges, the participants will benefit from classes at Boisbuchet, a field trip on porcelain in the region and from using the kilns and the workshop at ENSA.

ENSA de Limoges (F)

ENSA Limoges (National Higher School of Arts of Limoges) is a public institution of higher education affiliated to the French Ministry of Culture and Communication. The school provides structured education programmes in the subjects of art and design. The practical experience of "arts of fire" and of textiles is included in these subjects.

 

Christian Couty

Christian Couty studied Arts of Fire and has worked as modelling creative for the porcelain industry. He was the ceramist in a project with Martin Szekely and has participated in several exhibitions in France and abroad. Since 1977, Christian Couty teaches at the National Higher School of Arts of Limoges (ENSA).

Dominique Thebault

Dominique Thebault was born in 1949 in Rouen. He is "artiste plasticien" (sculptor) and has participated in several exhibitions in France and Portugal. Dominique Since 1975, Thebault has taught at the National Higher School of Arts of Limoges (ENSA), where he also coordinates the Art Department.