Successful esteem for the first edition of Ceramic Brussels riding on the new craze for ceramics created by the Franco-Belgian duo Jean-Marc Dimanche (co-founder of the Maison Parisienne gallery) and Gilles Parmentier (founder of Art on Paper in Brussels ).
With guest of honor Johan Creten - wise choice!
-, the French artist from the Galerie Perrotin (currently exhibited on avenue Matignon) being one of the rare ones to have elevated this medium to the rank of sculpture, at contemporary art price levels.
“There will still be a long way to go to get ceramics out of its shackles of everyday, technically well-made objects
,” estimates Parisian Pierre Passebon, one of the 55 exhibitors at Tour & Taxis, until last Sunday.
“I will come back next year but with a solo show”
, adds the Parisian, who could have sold ten times his wall of figurines writing
“We are not pigeons”
, by Élisabeth Lincot (15,000 euros).
The rest is more mixed.
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