Jean-Marie Appriou
14 Sep - 21 Oct 2012
JEAN-MARIE APPRIOU
Ginger Succubes
14 September - 21 October 2012
As a guest at the Air de Paris Vitrine, Jean-Marie Appriou will be presenting a selection from two new series of ceramic sculptures devoted to vampires and dwarfs.
Observing the principle of analogy between subject and method, he gives his ceramics a frankly telluric dimension, never hesitating, for example, to complement mineral matter with fur or other items from the living world. This is sculpture that involves shaping, firing, transformation and intermingling in terms of meaning as well as materials. Just as his flamboyance finds expression in raw technique, folklore leads him to formal subtlety and profundity, notably in the beings on show here: vampires and mythological figures.
Since graduating from the Regional School of Art in Rennes in 2010, Jean-Marie Appriou has been living and working in Paris. He has exhibited in group shows at the Salon in Montrouge, the Palais de Tokyo in Paris (BYOB, curator Rebecca Lamarche-Vadel), the White Projects gallery (curator Stéphane Corréard), Le Commissariat (curator Caroline Mesquita), Galerie Semoise, and the Cité Internationale des Arts (curator Laetitia Paviani). A first solo exhibition is planned for Piacé-le-Radieux in autumn 2012.
Ginger Succubes
14 September - 21 October 2012
As a guest at the Air de Paris Vitrine, Jean-Marie Appriou will be presenting a selection from two new series of ceramic sculptures devoted to vampires and dwarfs.
Observing the principle of analogy between subject and method, he gives his ceramics a frankly telluric dimension, never hesitating, for example, to complement mineral matter with fur or other items from the living world. This is sculpture that involves shaping, firing, transformation and intermingling in terms of meaning as well as materials. Just as his flamboyance finds expression in raw technique, folklore leads him to formal subtlety and profundity, notably in the beings on show here: vampires and mythological figures.
Since graduating from the Regional School of Art in Rennes in 2010, Jean-Marie Appriou has been living and working in Paris. He has exhibited in group shows at the Salon in Montrouge, the Palais de Tokyo in Paris (BYOB, curator Rebecca Lamarche-Vadel), the White Projects gallery (curator Stéphane Corréard), Le Commissariat (curator Caroline Mesquita), Galerie Semoise, and the Cité Internationale des Arts (curator Laetitia Paviani). A first solo exhibition is planned for Piacé-le-Radieux in autumn 2012.