Ceramic in Burgundy Crater Croc… Hatching Ears of ridge Dedans-dehors The boundary stone Millstone
Another episode of the Australian adventure: a joint exhibition with colleagues from there in Manningham Gallery: Jane ANNOIS, Judy and Ric PIERCE, Sandy LOCKWOOD, Veronique PENGILLEY, Vicki GRIMA, WendyJAGGER, Robert BARRON.
Sylvie and Jean-Marc were our ambassadors. Lucky mates…
This year, during Chinese New Year, the association “la Chine à Cluny” organized films, lectures, workshops and exhibitions for 10 successive days. This time, the event was a special touch as it was part of “Cluny 2010″, 1100th anniversary of the Abbey.
If the bridge between China and Cluny in the Middle Ages is not so obvious, the theme of the exhibition was the relationship between East and West, between China and Christianity. As evidenced by the stele erected in 781 in Chang’an (now Xi’an) to commemorate the arrival of the Nestorian Christians from Persia.
In response to this event, a dark stone stele was engraved by Gong Tao, Kang Xinying and Francois Gauthier with the assistance and valuable support of the company Jacques Louis at Cluny.
In reference to the twelve gates that were symbolically opened in September 2009 in Cluny, I wanted to establish twelve bounds on a hypothetical Silk Road. Twelve steps on this path strewn with pitfalls and pleasures, doubts and choice, hopelessness and determination. A journey of a couple in search of the birthplace of light and, having enriched knowledge throughout this trip, thinking finally reach the source, but realizes that the sun always rises farther in the east.
Each boundary stone is a step on the road and the construction of the one who follow it.
With the bound 1 and 12, I wanted to represent the gates of the cities of departure and arrival. The light succeeds the dark like the day succeeds the night and all variations of this world.
The bound 7 is a stage of rest and reflection. It could be near a caravanserai of Samarkand, where, during a slightly extended break, a melancholy comes over our travelers who hesitate to continue the way. I wanted it to be covered with graffiti expressing the mood of the moment of the one who traces. So I hand over it to the grazing pen of visitors who droped in the studio.
The pictures of steles are made by Bertrand LAUPRETE et Pierre PLATTIER
“La Tour du Bost”! Amazing, that tower planted in the middle of a farmyard! It’s in this strange place that Jean-Pierre Bouley proposed exhibit, Anne Mathonnière and myself.
The farm is operated by the family Dubreuil and here is the famous “ GAEG des Engoulevents ” which offers a wide variety of plants including an incredible collection of hostas.
