This artwork is part of a series of stoneware sculptures on lichen and is an exploration of several techniques and non-techniques of the making process. It is made of grogged stoneware, using the coiling technique, the slab building technique and stamping. It is then fired at a high temperature (1250°C).
©Olivier Planchon
©Olivier Planchon
©Olivier Planchon
©Olivier Planchon
©Olivier Planchon
Karine Benvenuti
- Ceramicist
- Contes, France
- Master Artisan
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Kneading and stamping, sculptural ceramics
- • Karine shapes her clay with a sculptor’s gestures, and hands and feet
- • The creative process itself fascinates her
- • She began making ceramics in her living room
Karine Benvenuti studied visual arts and worked as a graphic designer, but took another path to devote herself to ceramics after meeting Bernard Soleil, the ceramicist who lives in her village. “He gave me the desire to finally put my hands into clay.” He introduced her to working with clay, and she rapidly developed her own self-taught techniques based on three inseparable words: research, experience, gesture. Karine enjoys getting lost in shapes and in the making process of her creations. She is inspired by her environment, her culture, and her life experiences. “Every sculpture, every moment shared with a sculpture, transports me towards something else, towards another creation, another reflection. For this reason, each sculpture is unique. It all belongs to and defines a precise and special moment of my existence.”
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Photo: ©Olivier Planchon
White lichen
Photo: ©Olivier Planchon
Black passage
This piece is part of a series of sculptures: The holes, the breakthroughs, the passages. It is made as a block of stoneware, placed on the ground on a piece of fabric, transformed using only feet and hands, and fired at a high temperature (1280°C).
Photo: ©Olivier Planchon
Agitated snow and lichen
This artwork in the shape of a square represents lichen and snow. It is made of stoneware, using the slab building technique, and fired at a high temperature (1250°C). The enamel was made with a personal technique.
Photo: ©Olivier Planchon
À fleur de peau
This piece is the subject of research on epidermal textures and questions the notion of opposition that exists between lightness and heaviness. The rectangular shape was chosen to allow the focus to be on the surface textures. It is made of stoneware, using the slab building technique, and fired at a high temperature of 1270°C.
Photo: ©Olivier Planchon
À fleur de peau, binôme
This artwork is made of two squared shaped stoneware sculptures, a brown one and a smaller turquoise one. It investigates starkness and the importance of void. Each piece is made of grogged stoneware, using the slab building technique, and fired at a high temperature (1260°C).
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