THE ART & MATIÈRE CONTEMPORARY ART FAIR – FLORENCE LEMIEGRE GUEST OF HONOR SCULPTURE -Maisse – Île-de-France region.

THE ART & MATIÈRE CONTEMPORARY ART FAIR – FLORENCE LEMIEGRE GUEST OF HONOR SCULPTURE – Maisse – Île-de-France region.

• January 27 to February 4, 2024

• Opening on Saturday, January 27, 6pm-9pm.

• Vernissages and cultural festivities at all event sites.

From January 27 to February 4, 2024, the Art & Matière contemporary art fair Art & Matière show presents the creations of a hundred artists, in four towns in southern Essonne: The “Art et Matière” show is the cultural event of the autumn in southern Essonne. It features some one hundred artists, spread over four exhibition venues in the communes of southern Essonne – Maisse, Gironville, Boigneville and Vayres sur Essonne.

This 48th edition of the Salon Art & Matière, whose guests of honour are ceramic sculptor Florence Lemiegre and painter Jean-François Larrieu, invites us to observe nature and perceive biodiversity in a sensitive way. By discovering the flamboyant imaginary materials and vibrant colors revealed by the work of these two committed artists, the spectator finds himself carried away in an immersive adventure of total reconnection with nature.

The Maisse Cultural Center welcomes the works of Florence Lemiegre. In honor of this invitation, the sculptor has chosen to present an anthology of some fifteen of her creations from her “Noli me tangere” and “Culbutos Serendipity” universes.

Noli me tangere Pistils "Black blue hadal" - Création de Florence Lemiegre, sculptrice céramiste, Faïence, sculpture céramique contemporaine, artiste sculptrice céramiste, Florence Lemiegre, Noli me tangere, Ne me touche pas, Protection des océans, Biodiversité, Protégeons la nature, artiste engagée, artiste femme — Noli me tangere Pistils “Black blue hadal” – Earthenware – Brush glazing
Contemporary ceramic sculpture by Florence Lemiegre

The artist explains: “The world of Noli me tangere allows him to initiate a dialogue on biodiversity and our relationship with nature. It crystallizes the unspeakable beauty all at once dreamlike and powerful of our planet. Beauty that nonetheless conceals impalpable wounds and cracks. From the bowels of these sculptures, tiny vibrations and oscillations sometimes escape. Like a silent, almost interior melody, they are akin to imperceptible breaths: the earthenware or stoneware work then seems to come to life. Testifying to the fertility but also to the vulnerabilitý of our earth and its oceans, it ultimately proposes to tell us a story. Undoubtedly one in which nature regains its rights and the balance of its ecosystems as a whole.”

Noli me tangere Pistils "Tiffany blue" - Sculpture céramique de Florence Lemiegre - Noli me tangere - Pistils - Création de Florence Lemiegre sculptrice céramiste – Protection des océans – Protégeons nos océans – Biodiversité – Faïence – Terre rouge Normande – Vibrations - Ne me touche pas – Noli me tangere – Fonds marins - Artiste femme, Artiste engagée - Protection des océans – Biodiversité - océans, Florentine - couleurs et flamboyance - équilibre – déséquilibre - dialogue – biodiversité - prise conscience - fragilité - épéhémère - vibrations des mers, langage des pipelettes de fonds marins – Ne me touche pas – Noli me tangere – Fonds marins – Coraux - Protégeons les océans – Protégeons la planète - Tiffany – Blue – Céramique contemporaine — Noli me tangere Pistils “Tiffany blue” – Normandy red earthenware – Brush glazing
Contemporary ceramic sculpture by Florence Lemiegre

Through entwined, imprisoned drapes, coral-like plant and organic forms, interlocking lamellae and chiselled lace, the sculptor constrains the material, pushing it to extremes. She imposes “unnatural” paths on it. With the extreme delicacy of its earthen sheets, its numerous cavities where emptiness reigns, its intertwined paths, the piece is on the verge of cracking, breaking or drying out too quickly at every stage of its creation. In this kind of traumatic state, the earth will gradually accept the inevitable changes, transitory or otherwise, that it imposes on it. The dynamic process is underway, and the sculpture comes to life. The work seems to have found́ its own equilibrium and reveals itself to be airy and light. It attempts to reveal imperceptible, impalpable cracks and wounds. The result is often a mysterious beautý unspeakable, fragile and violent at the same time.

Noli me tangere "La Florentine" - sculpture céramique de l'artiste Florence Lemiegre - création de la sculptrice céramiste Florence Lemiegre - Faïence - Protégeons la nature - Artiste femme, Artiste engagée - Protection des océans – Biodiversité - océans, Florentine - couleurs et flamboyance - équilibre – déséquilibre - dialogue – biodiversité - prise conscience - fragilité - épéhémère - vibrations des mers, langage des pipelettes de fonds marins – Ne me touche pas – Noli me tangere – Fonds marins – Coraux - Protégeons les océans – Protégeons la planète — Noli me tangere “La Florentine” – White earthenware – Brush glazing
Contemporary ceramic sculpture by Florence Lemiegre

Noli me tangere Pistils “Little mama deep blues” - 2023 - Sculpture céramique de Florence Lemiegre - - Noli me tangere - Pistils - Création de Florence Lemiegre sculptrice céramiste – Protection des océans – Protégeons nos océans – Biodiversité – Faïence – Terre rouge Normande – Vibrations - Ne me touche pas – Noli me tangere – Fonds marins - Artiste femme, Artiste engagée - Protection des océans – Biodiversité - océans, Florentine - couleurs et flamboyance - équilibre – déséquilibre - dialogue – biodiversité - prise conscience - fragilité - épéhémère - vibrations des mers, langage des pipelettes de fonds marins – Ne me touche pas – Noli me tangere – Fonds marins – Coraux - Protégeons les océans – Protégeons la planète - Tiffany – Blue – Céramique contemporaine - Faïence Normande - Terre rouge de Normandie — Noli me tangere Pistils “Little mama deep blues” – 2023 – Earthenware – Terre rouge de Normandie
Contemporary ceramics by Florence Lemiegre

The “Noli me tangere” works are committed to the protection of nature, and more specifically to the fragility of our oceans. With her hands and her sensitivitý, the artist explores the wounds at the heart of our planet’s flesh and symbolically denounces the decline of oceanic health: Sea and clay earth find correspondences and keep the imprints of traumas and aggressions suffered.

The “Culbutos Serendipity“, with their clean lines and shapes, sway, swing and hesitate before finding an anchoring point. Through these sculptures, Florence Lemiegre evokes stabilitý and instabilitý, induces strength and fragilitý, the better to highlight the dualitý inherent in our wounds, as in our rebirths. These works are also allegorical, as a symbolic graphic representation of our potential for resilience.

Culbutos serendipity « Mélancolie douce » - Création de Florence Lemiegre – Sculpture céramique – Grès – Raku – Raku nu – Sculpture céramique contemporaine – Atelier Jules Verne en Normandie – Assigny – Sérendipité – Le bonheur dans le hasard – Équilibre – Déséquilibre – Couleurs – Vibrations – Corde à piano – Résilience – Fêlure – Réparation – Envol – Envolée – Légèreté – Mélancolie - douce – Harmonie colorielle – Sculptrice céramiste – Art et Matière – Salon art et matière — Culbutos serendipity “Sweet melancholy” – 2022 – Stoneware – Raku and Bare Raku
Contemporary ceramics by Florence Lemiegre

Culbutos Serendipity - Dansons maintenant ! - 2021 - Grès, terre blanche - Raku - Sculpture céramique contemporaine de Florence Lemiegre - Création de Florence Lemiegre – Sculpture céramique – Grès – Raku – Raku nu – Sculpture céramique contemporaine – Atelier Jules Verne en Normandie – Assigny – Sérendipité – Le bonheur dans le hasard – Équilibre – Déséquilibre – Couleurs – Vibrations – Corde à piano – Résilience – Fêlure – Réparation – Envol – Envolée – Légèreté – Flamboyance – Couleurs – Vibrations – Harmonie colorielle – Culbutos – Enfance – Ludique -Résurgence — Culbutos Serendipity “Let’s dance now! – 2021 – Stoneware – white clay – Raku – Piano strings
Contemporary ceramic sculpture by Florence Lemiegre

The question of balance and imbalance is inseparable from all Florence Lemiegre’s work. She connects each of her universes with a common thread through a variety of explorations in which matter gives life to emotional vibrations. Each of her creations is the result of a search for equivalence, contrasting materials and a balance between sculptural and color values. Indeed, his works are punctuated by a profusion of cheerful, dynamic colors, contrasting smoky blacks with shimmering, vibrant glazes. This palette of a thousand nuances leaves the imprint of a spontaneous pictorial expression, carried by the free gestures of enamel brushstrokes.

President of Art et Matière: painter Thierry Citron

Vice-President: sculptor and collagist Françoise Frugier

Salon Art & Matière

Center culturel Robert Dumas,

Rue de la République, 91720 Maisse

Opening hours: Monday to Saturday 2.30 pm to 7 pm and Sundays 10 am to 12 pm and 2.30 pm to 7 pm.

THE ART & MATIÈRE CONTEMPORARY ART FAIR – FLORENCE LEMIEGRE GUEST OF HONOR SCULPTURE – Maisse – Île-de-France region.

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