Fabre Museum exhibition catalog.
Valentine Schlegel: Art in Everyday Life.
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| N° d'inventaire | 28330 |
| Format | 16 x 22.5 |
| Détails | 128 p., illustrated, publisher's hardcover. |
| Publication | Ghent, 2023 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9789461617675 |
The Fabre Museum is preparing an exhibition for the summer of 2023 around the Sète-born Valentine Schlegel in the Cabrières-Sabatier d'Espeyran hotel, in the Fabre Museum's decorative arts department.
The works of this ceramicist, creator of everyday objects, but also teacher who initiated the first modeling workshops for young people at the Decorative Arts School, will interact with the period decor of the mansion. The exhibition will be structured around a selection of objects, ceramics, and fireplace models that made her successful, testifying to the diversity of her production, put into perspective with her inspirational collections as well as the photographs that show her at work.
Born in Sète in 1925, a graduate of the Fine Arts School of Montpellier, Valentine Schlegel moved to Paris in 1945, but regularly returned to her home port.
Thanks to her biomorphic vases, she quickly became one of the women who renewed ceramic art in the 1950s, before inventing
a concept of fireplaces, which remains her trademark, and from which she will sculpt, through their dynamic and pure whiteness, a hundred interior spaces.
She also influenced many children who benefited from her innovative teaching methods at the “Atelier des moins de quinze ans” at the Arts Décoratifs.
Finally, she benefited from a long friendship with the filmmaker Agnès Varda who gives an additional dimension to her works and her artistic gesture by
his photographs.
This catalog offers the major milestones in the journey of this free personality, at once dreamy and joyful, craftswoman and artist, finding only one discipline: that of having art as her daily life.
The works of this ceramicist, creator of everyday objects, but also teacher who initiated the first modeling workshops for young people at the Decorative Arts School, will interact with the period decor of the mansion. The exhibition will be structured around a selection of objects, ceramics, and fireplace models that made her successful, testifying to the diversity of her production, put into perspective with her inspirational collections as well as the photographs that show her at work.
Born in Sète in 1925, a graduate of the Fine Arts School of Montpellier, Valentine Schlegel moved to Paris in 1945, but regularly returned to her home port.
Thanks to her biomorphic vases, she quickly became one of the women who renewed ceramic art in the 1950s, before inventing
a concept of fireplaces, which remains her trademark, and from which she will sculpt, through their dynamic and pure whiteness, a hundred interior spaces.
She also influenced many children who benefited from her innovative teaching methods at the “Atelier des moins de quinze ans” at the Arts Décoratifs.
Finally, she benefited from a long friendship with the filmmaker Agnès Varda who gives an additional dimension to her works and her artistic gesture by
his photographs.
This catalog offers the major milestones in the journey of this free personality, at once dreamy and joyful, craftswoman and artist, finding only one discipline: that of having art as her daily life.
The works of this ceramicist, creator of everyday objects, but also teacher who initiated the first modeling workshops for young people at the Decorative Arts School, will interact with the period decor of the mansion. The exhibition will be structured around a selection of objects, ceramics, and fireplace models that made her successful, testifying to the diversity of her production, put into perspective with her inspirational collections as well as the photographs that show her at work.
Born in Sète in 1925, a graduate of the Fine Arts School of Montpellier, Valentine Schlegel moved to Paris in 1945, but regularly returned to her home port.
Thanks to her biomorphic vases, she quickly became one of the women who renewed ceramic art in the 1950s, before inventing
a concept of fireplaces, which remains her trademark, and from which she will sculpt, through their dynamic and pure whiteness, a hundred interior spaces.
She also influenced many children who benefited from her innovative teaching methods at the “Atelier des moins de quinze ans” at the Arts Décoratifs.
Finally, she benefited from a long friendship with the filmmaker Agnès Varda who gives an additional dimension to her works and her artistic gesture by
his photographs.
This catalog offers the major milestones in the journey of this free personality, at once dreamy and joyful, craftswoman and artist, finding only one discipline: that of having art as her daily life.