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Place of Origin: French
Alcove #7 Sculpture by Margaux Leycuras
Located in Geneve, CH
Alcove #7 sculpture by Margaux Leycuras.
One of a kind, signed and numbered.
Dimensions: D 46 x H 41 cm.
Material: sandy stoneware with a porcelain slip finish and white glaze ins...
Category
2010s Post-Modern French Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Porcelain
Black Wooden Sculptures "Refuges I & II" by Bertrand Créac'h, 1996
By Bertrand Créac'h
Located in London, GB
Refuges I & II sculpture by Bertrand Créac'h, 1996
Material: Burnished Iroko wood
Dimensions: (1) H 70 cm / (2) H 57 cm
Year: 1996
One-of-a-kind pieces, signed
Throughout his career Créac’h have created a body of architectural wooden sculptures evoking his exploration and memories of infinite paths. These elevated geometric work carved into the thickness of the material are symbolic of a spiritual mind.
Iroko is a large tropical western African tree...
Category
20th Century Mid-Century Modern French Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Contemporary Opera Fantastico marble soft shaped Cöl Sculpture by Tom Jablin
Located in 1204, CH
Tom Jablin is a sculptor who expresses organic shapes though marble as my main medium. Hisy work is driven by contemplation of nature, the oceanic universe, as well as human and animal bodies. From his work shop in the South West of France he shapes his marble pieces by hand with due regards to material and environment.
This piece is from Büp collection which is deeply inspired by the submarine world, the coral and its inhabitants. Those pieces show life, calm, inclusion and movement through a different temporality, creating a link between ocean floor...
Category
2010s French Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Marble
Contemporary St Beat Marble 'France' Soft Shaped Ëz Sculpture by Tom Jablin
Located in 1204, CH
Tom Jablin is a sculptor who expresses organic shapes though marble as my main medium. Hisy work is driven by contemplation of nature, the oceanic universe, as well as human and animal bodies. From his work shop in the South West of France he shapes his marble pieces by hand with due regards to material and environment.
This piece is from Büp collection which is deeply inspired by the submarine world, the coral and its inhabitants. Those pieces show life, calm, inclusion and movement through a different temporality, creating a link between ocean floor...
Category
2010s French Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Marble
A Pirri, Installation 'cure', Steel Blades On Cement Pedestals, 20th Century
Located in MARSEILLE, FR
Installation composed of 14 steel blades and painted metal, on cut cement bases This installation was created for the Venice Biennale in 1988, for the Cure exhibition, by Alfredo Pir...
Category
20th Century Modern French Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Cement, Metal
Contemporary Opera Fantastico Marble Soft Shaped Ovë Sculpture by Tom Jablin
Located in 1204, CH
Tom Jablin is a sculptor who expresses organic shapes though marble as my main medium. Hisy work is driven by contemplation of nature, the oceanic universe, as well as human and anim...
Category
2010s French Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Marble
Bronze-Patina Brass Sculpture by Patrick Coard Paris
By Patrick Coard
Located in New York, NY
Patrick Coard Paris expands on his unique and beautiful sculptural object collection. The Half Tower is an exceptional piece perfect to make a stat...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Art Deco French Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Brass
Luminous Sculpture Abyss 14
Located in SAINT-BRÈS, FR
This porcelain sculpture is inspired by the fascinating and magical universe of the Abyss. An unknown and mysterious world in which even the richest imagination can still be surprise...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Other French Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Porcelain Sculpture by Wayne Fischer, 2022
By Wayne Fischer
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
A porcelain sculpture by Wayne Fischer.
Perfect original conditions.
Signed.
Unique piece.
2022.
How can an inert object produce deeply unsuspecting, indecipherable, uncontrollable emotions?
Wayne Fischer is an artist who can create works that force one to ask such moving questions as this. If he doesn’t know why, if he can’t explain the deepest reasons of his artistic research, he definitely knows the workings and limitations of the artistic process he invented.
He has never deviated from the course he set for himself since university; translate life. The works presented here show the evolution of his creations over the past thirty years. If Wayne Fischer has received several international prizes and quickly obtained the recognition of his peers in ceramics, nevertheless he retains a singular position at once unavoidable and disturbing. His sculptures are paradoxical, powerful and sensual, and cause a certain unease. They are beautiful, carnal, touchable, all the while being outside the standard idea of beauty. The ambiguity of attraction and rejection is at the heart of this evolution.
The pieces from the 1980s and 90s are imposing by their size, stature and symmetry, which give them balance. They generate surprise, curiosity and play between contrasts that are both soft and aggressive. They reference the body, muscles, and torso, without presenting an exact reality. They are double-faced, seductive, and enigmatic. Wayne’s shapes are inspired by shells, bivalves, sometimes presented as though they are floating in space. But the reference of the marine world to the mysterious female body has only one interpretation and only history and emotion condition the reaction of the spectator: he accepts or refuses to see, to be seduced. He is touched or he flees.
The more recent sculptures are appreciated in the fullness of their round volume and the search for a pure universal beauty. “Metamorphosis,” the work recently awarded by the Bettencourt Foundation, is from this series of pieces wheel- thrown and deformed which pushes the porcelain from the inside so the bulges evoke the movement of waves or the musculature of several bodies. The exactness, the clean breaks, the assurance of lines and valleys are testimony to the interior power that governs the creation. The life energy expressed is also felt by the artist as the origin of ceramics. All the pieces are curved and tense. They show no marking, no sign of the hand, no imprints, and yet give an impression of spontaneity, as if a dropped piece of clay found its form by chance. Depending on the angles, the content becomes “the origins of the world...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Beaux Arts French Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Big Pair of Obelisks, 1930 in Golden Leaf Iron , Height: 86.62 cm
Located in Ciudad Autónoma Buenos Aires, C
It was exhibited in the original Miami beach antique show and Palm beach "American International Fine Art Fair (AIFAF)".
Obelisks in golden leaf i...
Category
1930s Art Deco Vintage French Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Iron, Gold Leaf
A porcelain sculpture by Wayne Fischer, 2015
By Wayne Fischer
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
A porcelain sculpture by Wayne Fischer.
Perfect original conditions.
Signed.
Unique piece.
2015.
How can an inert object produce deeply unsuspecting, indecipherable, uncontrollable emotions?
Wayne Fischer is an artist who can create works that force one to ask such moving questions as this. If he doesn’t know why, if he can’t explain the deepest reasons of his artistic research, he definitely knows the workings and limitations of the artistic process he invented.
He has never deviated from the course he set for himself since university; translate life. The works presented here show the evolution of his creations over the past thirty years. If Wayne Fischer has received several international prizes and quickly obtained the recognition of his peers in ceramics, nevertheless he retains a singular position at once unavoidable and disturbing. His sculptures are paradoxical, powerful and sensual, and cause a certain unease. They are beautiful, carnal, touchable, all the while being outside the standard idea of beauty. The ambiguity of attraction and rejection is at the heart of this evolution.
The pieces from the 1980s and 90s are imposing by their size, stature and symmetry, which give them balance. They generate surprise, curiosity and play between contrasts that are both soft and aggressive. They reference the body, muscles, and torso, without presenting an exact reality. They are double-faced, seductive, and enigmatic. Wayne’s shapes are inspired by shells, bivalves, sometimes presented as though they are floating in space. But the reference of the marine world to the mysterious female body has only one interpretation and only history and emotion condition the reaction of the spectator: he accepts or refuses to see, to be seduced. He is touched or he flees.
The more recent sculptures are appreciated in the fullness of their round volume and the search for a pure universal beauty. “Metamorphosis,” the work recently awarded by the Bettencourt Foundation, is from this series of pieces wheel- thrown and deformed which pushes the porcelain from the inside so the bulges evoke the movement of waves or the musculature of several bodies. The exactness, the clean breaks, the assurance of lines and valleys are testimony to the interior power that governs the creation. The life energy expressed is also felt by the artist as the origin of ceramics. All the pieces are curved and tense. They show no marking, no sign of the hand, no imprints, and yet give an impression of spontaneity, as if a dropped piece of clay found its form by chance. Depending on the angles, the content becomes “the origins of the world...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Beaux Arts French Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Porcelain Sculpture by Wayne Fischer, 2022
By Wayne Fischer
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
A porcelain sculpture by Wayne Fischer.
Perfect original conditions.
Signed.
Unique piece.
2022.
How can an inert object produce deeply unsuspecting, indecipherable, uncontrollable emotions?
Wayne Fischer is an artist who can create works that force one to ask such moving questions as this. If he doesn’t know why, if he can’t explain the deepest reasons of his artistic research, he definitely knows the workings and limitations of the artistic process he invented.
He has never deviated from the course he set for himself since university; translate life. The works presented here show the evolution of his creations over the past thirty years. If Wayne Fischer has received several international prizes and quickly obtained the recognition of his peers in ceramics, nevertheless he retains a singular position at once unavoidable and disturbing. His sculptures are paradoxical, powerful and sensual, and cause a certain unease. They are beautiful, carnal, touchable, all the while being outside the standard idea of beauty. The ambiguity of attraction and rejection is at the heart of this evolution.
The pieces from the 1980s and 90s are imposing by their size, stature and symmetry, which give them balance. They generate surprise, curiosity and play between contrasts that are both soft and aggressive. They reference the body, muscles, and torso, without presenting an exact reality. They are double-faced, seductive, and enigmatic. Wayne’s shapes are inspired by shells, bivalves, sometimes presented as though they are floating in space. But the reference of the marine world to the mysterious female body has only one interpretation and only history and emotion condition the reaction of the spectator: he accepts or refuses to see, to be seduced. He is touched or he flees.
The more recent sculptures are appreciated in the fullness of their round volume and the search for a pure universal beauty. “Metamorphosis,” the work recently awarded by the Bettencourt Foundation, is from this series of pieces wheel- thrown and deformed which pushes the porcelain from the inside so the bulges evoke the movement of waves or the musculature of several bodies. The exactness, the clean breaks, the assurance of lines and valleys are testimony to the interior power that governs the creation. The life energy expressed is also felt by the artist as the origin of ceramics. All the pieces are curved and tense. They show no marking, no sign of the hand, no imprints, and yet give an impression of spontaneity, as if a dropped piece of clay found its form by chance. Depending on the angles, the content becomes “the origins of the world...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Beaux Arts French Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Porcelain Sculpture by Wayne Fischer, 2022
By Wayne Fischer
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
A porcelain sculpture by Wayne Fischer.
Perfect original conditions.
Signed.
Unique piece.
2022.
How can an inert object produce deeply unsuspecting, indecipherable, uncontrol...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Beaux Arts French Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Porcelain Sculpture by Wayne Fischer, 2022
By Wayne Fischer
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
A porcelain sculpture by Wayne Fischer.
Perfect original conditions.
Signed.
Unique piece.
2022.
How can an inert object produce deeply unsuspecting, indecipherable, uncontrol...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Beaux Arts French Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Porcelain Sculpture by Wayne Fischer, 2022
By Wayne Fischer
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
A porcelain sculpture by Wayne Fischer.
Perfect original conditions.
Signed.
Unique piece.
2022.
How can an inert object produce deeply unsuspecting, indecipherable, uncontrol...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Beaux Arts French Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Porcelain Sculpture by Wayne Fischer, 2022
By Wayne Fischer
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
A porcelain sculpture by Wayne Fischer.
Perfect original conditions.
Signed.
Unique piece.
2022.
How can an inert object produce deeply unsuspecting, indecipherable, uncontrollable emotions?
Wayne Fischer is an artist who can create works that force one to ask such moving questions as this. If he doesn’t know why, if he can’t explain the deepest reasons of his artistic research, he definitely knows the workings and limitations of the artistic process he invented.
He has never deviated from the course he set for himself since university; translate life. The works presented here show the evolution of his creations over the past thirty years. If Wayne Fischer has received several international prizes and quickly obtained the recognition of his peers in ceramics, nevertheless he retains a singular position at once unavoidable and disturbing. His sculptures are paradoxical, powerful and sensual, and cause a certain unease. They are beautiful, carnal, touchable, all the while being outside the standard idea of beauty. The ambiguity of attraction and rejection is at the heart of this evolution.
The pieces from the 1980s and 90s are imposing by their size, stature and symmetry, which give them balance. They generate surprise, curiosity and play between contrasts that are both soft and aggressive. They reference the body, muscles, and torso, without presenting an exact reality. They are double-faced, seductive, and enigmatic. Wayne’s shapes are inspired by shells, bivalves, sometimes presented as though they are floating in space. But the reference of the marine world to the mysterious female body has only one interpretation and only history and emotion condition the reaction of the spectator: he accepts or refuses to see, to be seduced. He is touched or he flees.
The more recent sculptures are appreciated in the fullness of their round volume and the search for a pure universal beauty. “Metamorphosis,” the work recently awarded by the Bettencourt Foundation, is from this series of pieces wheel- thrown and deformed which pushes the porcelain from the inside so the bulges evoke the movement of waves or the musculature of several bodies. The exactness, the clean breaks, the assurance of lines and valleys are testimony to the interior power that governs the creation. The life energy expressed is also felt by the artist as the origin of ceramics. All the pieces are curved and tense. They show no marking, no sign of the hand, no imprints, and yet give an impression of spontaneity, as if a dropped piece of clay found its form by chance. Depending on the angles, the content becomes “the origins of the world”. Femininity and sensuality are exalted. Inspired by the body, before and after birth, or simply the sea, the parts of the sculpture conjugate around a mysterious interior cavity, secret and troubling. The interior wall doesn’t correspond to the exterior, and has its own volumes, deformities, and intimacy. The pieces present two kinds of interior: one open, and partially uncovered, the other totally hidden inside. The differences of their respective deformation reinforce the impression of life : the subjective representation of muscles and bones, of bulges pushed by an interior force, like a visceral movement of respiration. The surface of the ceramic is crackled but soft and fine, even reflecting light like the skin. The nuances of color reinforce the expression of sensuality.
The alignment of technique and what it causes one to see and feel has rarely been so intimately successful.
Wayne Fischer perfected his technique in the 1970s and has remained faithful to it. He adds fibers to porcelain clay that has been chosen for its whiteness to create and accentuate volume around empty space, by assembling slabs or thrown pieces. Then, he makes another piece that takes its place inside; both parts are formed with no hand...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Beaux Arts French Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
A porcelain sculpture by Wayne Fischer, 1989
By Wayne Fischer
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
A porcelain sculpture by Wayne Fischer.
Perfect original conditions.
Signed.
Unique piece.
1989.
How can an inert object produce deeply unsuspecting, indecipherable, uncontrollable ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Beaux Arts French Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Porcelain Sculpture by Wayne Fischer, 2006
By Wayne Fischer
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
A porcelain sculpture by Wayne Fischer.
Perfect original conditions.
Signed.
Unique piece.
2006.
How can an inert object produce deeply unsuspecting, indecipherable, uncontrollable emotions?
Wayne Fischer is an artist who can create works that force one to ask such moving questions as this. If he doesn’t know why, if he can’t explain the deepest reasons of his artistic research, he definitely knows the workings and limitations of the artistic process he invented.
He has never deviated from the course he set for himself since university; translate life. The works presented here show the evolution of his creations over the past thirty years. If Wayne Fischer has received several international prizes and quickly obtained the recognition of his peers in ceramics, nevertheless he retains a singular position at once unavoidable and disturbing. His sculptures are paradoxical, powerful and sensual, and cause a certain unease. They are beautiful, carnal, touchable, all the while being outside the standard idea of beauty. The ambiguity of attraction and rejection is at the heart of this evolution.
The pieces from the 1980s and 90s are imposing by their size, stature and symmetry, which give them balance. They generate surprise, curiosity and play between contrasts that are both soft and aggressive. They reference the body, muscles, and torso, without presenting an exact reality. They are double-faced, seductive, and enigmatic. Wayne’s shapes are inspired by shells, bivalves, sometimes presented as though they are floating in space. But the reference of the marine world to the mysterious female body has only one interpretation and only history and emotion condition the reaction of the spectator: he accepts or refuses to see, to be seduced. He is touched or he flees.
The more recent sculptures are appreciated in the fullness of their round volume and the search for a pure universal beauty. “Metamorphosis,” the work recently awarded by the Bettencourt Foundation, is from this series of pieces wheel- thrown and deformed which pushes the porcelain from the inside so the bulges evoke the movement of waves or the musculature of several bodies. The exactness, the clean breaks, the assurance of lines and valleys are testimony to the interior power that governs the creation. The life energy expressed is also felt by the artist as the origin of ceramics. All the pieces are curved and tense. They show no marking, no sign of the hand, no imprints, and yet give an impression of spontaneity, as if a dropped piece of clay found its form by chance. Depending on the angles, the content becomes “the origins of the world”. Femininity and sensuality are exalted. Inspired by the body, before and after birth, or simply the sea, the parts of the sculpture conjugate around a mysterious interior cavity, secret and troubling. The interior wall doesn’t correspond to the exterior, and has its own volumes, deformities, and intimacy. The pieces present two kinds of interior: one open, and partially uncovered, the other totally hidden inside. The differences of their respective deformation reinforce the impression of life : the subjective representation of muscles and bones, of bulges pushed by an interior force, like a visceral movement of respiration. The surface of the ceramic is crackled but soft and fine, even reflecting light like the skin. The nuances of color reinforce the expression of sensuality.
The alignment of technique and what it causes one to see and feel has rarely been so intimately successful.
Wayne Fischer perfected his technique in the 1970s and has remained faithful to it. He adds fibers to porcelain clay that has been chosen for its whiteness to create and accentuate volume around empty space, by assembling slabs or thrown pieces. Then, he makes another piece that takes its place inside; both parts are formed with no hand...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Beaux Arts French Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
A porcelain sculpture by Wayne Fischer, 2022
By Wayne Fischer
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
A porcelain sculpture by Wayne Fischer.
Perfect original conditions.
Signed.
Unique piece.
2022.
How can an inert object produce deeply unsuspecting, indecipherable, uncontrollable emotions?
Wayne Fischer is an artist who can create works that force one to ask such moving questions as this. If he doesn’t know why, if he can’t explain the deepest reasons of his artistic research, he definitely knows the workings and limitations of the artistic process he invented.
He has never deviated from the course he set for himself since university; translate life. The works presented here show the evolution of his creations over the past thirty years. If Wayne Fischer has received several international prizes and quickly obtained the recognition of his peers in ceramics, nevertheless he retains a singular position at once unavoidable and disturbing. His sculptures are paradoxical, powerful and sensual, and cause a certain unease. They are beautiful, carnal, touchable, all the while being outside the standard idea of beauty. The ambiguity of attraction and rejection is at the heart of this evolution.
The pieces from the 1980s and 90s are imposing by their size, stature and symmetry, which give them balance. They generate surprise, curiosity and play between contrasts that are both soft and aggressive. They reference the body, muscles, and torso, without presenting an exact reality. They are double-faced, seductive, and enigmatic. Wayne’s shapes are inspired by shells, bivalves, sometimes presented as though they are floating in space. But the reference of the marine world to the mysterious female body has only one interpretation and only history and emotion condition the reaction of the spectator: he accepts or refuses to see, to be seduced. He is touched or he flees.
The more recent sculptures are appreciated in the fullness of their round volume and the search for a pure universal beauty. “Metamorphosis,” the work recently awarded by the Bettencourt Foundation, is from this series of pieces wheel- thrown and deformed which pushes the porcelain from the inside so the bulges evoke the movement of waves or the musculature of several bodies. The exactness, the clean breaks, the assurance of lines and valleys are testimony to the interior power that governs the creation. The life energy expressed is also felt by the artist as the origin of ceramics. All the pieces are curved and tense. They show no marking, no sign of the hand, no imprints, and yet give an impression of spontaneity, as if a dropped piece of clay found its form by chance. Depending on the angles, the content becomes “the origins of the world...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Beaux Arts French Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Porcelain Sculpture by Wayne Fischer, 2022
By Wayne Fischer
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
A porcelain sculpture by Wayne Fischer.
Perfect original conditions.
Signed.
Unique piece.
2022.
How can an inert object produce deeply unsuspecting, indecipherable, uncontrol...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Beaux Arts French Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Porcelain Sculpture by Wayne Fischer, 2022
By Wayne Fischer
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
A porcelain sculpture by Wayne Fischer.
Perfect original conditions.
Signed.
Unique piece.
2022.
How can an inert object produce deeply unsuspecting, indecipherable, uncontrol...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Beaux Arts French Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Porcelain Sculpture by Wayne Fischer, 2022
By Wayne Fischer
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
A porcelain sculpture by Wayne Fischer.
Perfect original conditions.
Signed.
Unique piece.
2022.
How can an inert object produce deeply unsuspecting, indecipherable, uncontrol...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Beaux Arts French Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
A porcelain sculpture by Wayne Fischer, 2022
By Wayne Fischer
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
A porcelain sculpture by Wayne Fischer.
Perfect original conditions.
Signed.
Unique piece.
2022.
How can an inert object produce deeply unsuspecting, indecipherable, uncontrollable emotions?
Wayne Fischer is an artist who can create works that force one to ask such moving questions as this. If he doesn’t know why, if he can’t explain the deepest reasons of his artistic research, he definitely knows the workings and limitations of the artistic process he invented.
He has never deviated from the course he set for himself since university; translate life. The works presented here show the evolution of his creations over the past thirty years. If Wayne Fischer has received several international prizes and quickly obtained the recognition of his peers in ceramics, nevertheless he retains a singular position at once unavoidable and disturbing. His sculptures are paradoxical, powerful and sensual, and cause a certain unease. They are beautiful, carnal, touchable, all the while being outside the standard idea of beauty. The ambiguity of attraction and rejection is at the heart of this evolution.
The pieces from the 1980s and 90s are imposing by their size, stature and symmetry, which give them balance. They generate surprise, curiosity and play between contrasts that are both soft and aggressive. They reference the body, muscles, and torso, without presenting an exact reality. They are double-faced, seductive, and enigmatic. Wayne’s shapes are inspired by shells, bivalves, sometimes presented as though they are floating in space. But the reference of the marine world to the mysterious female body has only one interpretation and only history and emotion condition the reaction of the spectator: he accepts or refuses to see, to be seduced. He is touched or he flees.
The more recent sculptures are appreciated in the fullness of their round volume and the search for a pure universal beauty. “Metamorphosis,” the work recently awarded by the Bettencourt Foundation, is from this series of pieces wheel- thrown and deformed which pushes the porcelain from the inside so the bulges evoke the movement of waves or the musculature of several bodies. The exactness, the clean breaks, the assurance of lines and valleys are testimony to the interior power that governs the creation. The life energy expressed is also felt by the artist as the origin of ceramics. All the pieces are curved and tense. They show no marking, no sign of the hand, no imprints, and yet give an impression of spontaneity, as if a dropped piece of clay found its form by chance. Depending on the angles, the content becomes “the origins of the world”. Femininity and sensuality are exalted. Inspired by the body, before and after birth, or simply the sea, the parts of the sculpture conjugate around a mysterious interior cavity, secret and troubling. The interior wall doesn’t correspond to the exterior, and has its own volumes, deformities, and intimacy. The pieces present two kinds of interior: one open, and partially uncovered, the other totally hidden inside. The differences of their respective deformation reinforce the impression of life : the subjective representation of muscles and bones, of bulges pushed by an interior force, like a visceral movement of respiration. The surface of the ceramic is crackled but soft and fine, even reflecting light like the skin. The nuances of color reinforce the expression of sensuality.
The alignment of technique and what it causes one to see and feel has rarely been so intimately successful.
Wayne Fischer perfected his technique in the 1970s and has remained faithful to it. He adds fibers to porcelain clay that has been chosen for its whiteness to create and accentuate volume around empty space, by assembling slabs or thrown pieces. Then, he makes another piece that takes its place inside; both parts are formed with no hand...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Beaux Arts French Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Porcelain Sculpture by Wayne Fischer, 2018
By Wayne Fischer
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
A porcelain sculpture by Wayne Fischer.
Perfect original conditions.
Signed.
Unique piece.
2022.
How can an inert object produce deeply unsuspecting, indecipherable, uncontrollable emotions?
Wayne Fischer is an artist who can create works that force one to ask such moving questions as this. If he doesn’t know why, if he can’t explain the deepest reasons of his artistic research, he definitely knows the workings and limitations of the artistic process he invented.
He has never deviated from the course he set for himself since university; translate life. The works presented here show the evolution of his creations over the past thirty years. If Wayne Fischer has received several international prizes and quickly obtained the recognition of his peers in ceramics, nevertheless he retains a singular position at once unavoidable and disturbing. His sculptures are paradoxical, powerful and sensual, and cause a certain unease. They are beautiful, carnal, touchable, all the while being outside the standard idea of beauty. The ambiguity of attraction and rejection is at the heart of this evolution.
The pieces from the 1980s and 90s are imposing by their size, stature and symmetry, which give them balance. They generate surprise, curiosity and play between contrasts that are both soft and aggressive. They reference the body, muscles, and torso, without presenting an exact reality. They are double-faced, seductive, and enigmatic. Wayne’s shapes are inspired by shells, bivalves, sometimes presented as though they are floating in space. But the reference of the marine world to the mysterious female body has only one interpretation and only history and emotion condition the reaction of the spectator: he accepts or refuses to see, to be seduced. He is touched or he flees.
The more recent sculptures are appreciated in the fullness of their round volume and the search for a pure universal beauty. “Metamorphosis,” the work recently awarded by the Bettencourt Foundation, is from this series of pieces wheel- thrown and deformed which pushes the porcelain from the inside so the bulges evoke the movement of waves or the musculature of several bodies. The exactness, the clean breaks, the assurance of lines and valleys are testimony to the interior power that governs the creation. The life energy expressed is also felt by the artist as the origin of ceramics. All the pieces are curved and tense. They show no marking, no sign of the hand, no imprints, and yet give an impression of spontaneity, as if a dropped piece of clay found its form by chance. Depending on the angles, the content becomes “the origins of the world...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Beaux Arts French Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Porcelain Sculpture by Wayne Fischer, 2022
By Wayne Fischer
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
A porcelain sculpture by Wayne Fischer.
Perfect original conditions.
Signed.
Unique piece.
2022.
How can an inert object produce deeply unsuspecting, indecipherable, uncontrollable emotions?
Wayne Fischer is an artist who can create works that force one to ask such moving questions as this. If he doesn’t know why, if he can’t explain the deepest reasons of his artistic research, he definitely knows the workings and limitations of the artistic process he invented.
He has never deviated from the course he set for himself since university; translate life. The works presented here show the evolution of his creations over the past thirty years. If Wayne Fischer has received several international prizes and quickly obtained the recognition of his peers in ceramics, nevertheless he retains a singular position at once unavoidable and disturbing. His sculptures are paradoxical, powerful and sensual, and cause a certain unease. They are beautiful, carnal, touchable, all the while being outside the standard idea of beauty. The ambiguity of attraction and rejection is at the heart of this evolution.
The pieces from the 1980s and 90s are imposing by their size, stature and symmetry, which give them balance. They generate surprise, curiosity and play between contrasts that are both soft and aggressive. They reference the body, muscles, and torso, without presenting an exact reality. They are double-faced, seductive, and enigmatic. Wayne’s shapes are inspired by shells, bivalves, sometimes presented as though they are floating in space. But the reference of the marine world to the mysterious female body has only one interpretation and only history and emotion condition the reaction of the spectator: he accepts or refuses to see, to be seduced. He is touched or he flees.
The more recent sculptures are appreciated in the fullness of their round volume and the search for a pure universal beauty. “Metamorphosis,” the work recently awarded by the Bettencourt Foundation, is from this series of pieces wheel- thrown and deformed which pushes the porcelain from the inside so the bulges evoke the movement of waves or the musculature of several bodies. The exactness, the clean breaks, the assurance of lines and valleys are testimony to the interior power that governs the creation. The life energy expressed is also felt by the artist as the origin of ceramics. All the pieces are curved and tense. They show no marking, no sign of the hand, no imprints, and yet give an impression of spontaneity, as if a dropped piece of clay found its form by chance. Depending on the angles, the content becomes “the origins of the world...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Beaux Arts French Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Arch Buffon Marble Column Pedestal by Frédéric Saulou
By Frederic Saulou
Located in Geneve, CH
Arch Buffon marble column pedestal by Frédéric Saulou
Limited edition: 1 / 12
Designer: Frederic Saulou
Materials: Ornemental Limestone Buffon.
Dimensi...
Category
2010s Organic Modern French Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Stone
Luminous Sculpture Abyss 11
By Anne Sophie BOULOGNE
Located in SAINT-BRÈS, FR
This porcelain sculpture is inspired by the fascinating and magical universe of the Abyss. An unknown and mysterious world in which even the richest imagination can still be surprise...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Other French Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Luminous Sculpture Iceland
Located in SAINT-BRÈS, FR
This porcelain sculpture is inspired by the Iceland's landscapes. A unique creation made entirely by hand and at the same time a source of light bringing a little magic and enchantme...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Other French Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Porcelain Sculpture by Wayne Fischer, 2018
By Wayne Fischer
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
A porcelain sculpture by Wayne Fischer.
Perfect original conditions.
Signed.
Unique piece.
2018.
How can an inert object produce deeply unsuspecting, indecipherable, uncontrol...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Beaux Arts French Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Porcelain Sculpture by Wayne Fischer, 1989
By Wayne Fischer
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
A porcelain sculpture by Wayne Fischer.
Perfect original conditions.
Signed.
Unique piece.
1989.
How can an inert object produce deeply unsuspecting, indecipherable, uncontrollable emotions?
Wayne Fischer is an artist who can create works that force one to ask such moving questions as this. If he doesn’t know why, if he can’t explain the deepest reasons of his artistic research, he definitely knows the workings and limitations of the artistic process he invented.
He has never deviated from the course he set for himself since university; translate life. The works presented here show the evolution of his creations over the past thirty years. If Wayne Fischer has received several international prizes and quickly obtained the recognition of his peers in ceramics, nevertheless he retains a singular position at once unavoidable and disturbing. His sculptures are paradoxical, powerful and sensual, and cause a certain unease. They are beautiful, carnal, touchable, all the while being outside the standard idea of beauty. The ambiguity of attraction and rejection is at the heart of this evolution.
The pieces from the 1980s and 90s are imposing by their size, stature and symmetry, which give them balance. They generate surprise, curiosity and play between contrasts that are both soft and aggressive. They reference the body, muscles, and torso, without presenting an exact reality. They are double-faced, seductive, and enigmatic. Wayne’s shapes are inspired by shells, bivalves, sometimes presented as though they are floating in space. But the reference of the marine world to the mysterious female body has only one interpretation and only history and emotion condition the reaction of the spectator: he accepts or refuses to see, to be seduced. He is touched or he flees.
The more recent sculptures are appreciated in the fullness of their round volume and the search for a pure universal beauty. “Metamorphosis,” the work recently awarded by the Bettencourt Foundation, is from this series of pieces wheel- thrown and deformed which pushes the porcelain from the inside so the bulges evoke the movement of waves or the musculature of several bodies. The exactness, the clean breaks, the assurance of lines and valleys are testimony to the interior power that governs the creation. The life energy expressed is also felt by the artist as the origin of ceramics. All the pieces are curved and tense. They show no marking, no sign of the hand, no imprints, and yet give an impression of spontaneity, as if a dropped piece of clay found its form by chance. Depending on the angles, the content becomes “the origins of the world...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Beaux Arts French Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Contemporary Ceramic Centerpiece by Dominique Legros, 2021
By Dominique Legros 1
Located in London, GB
Centerpiece Sculpture made of stoneware by Dominique Legros
Unique piece, signed.
Material: Soneware, hand-polish
Dimensions: H 16 x 30 x 29 cm
Y...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Organic Modern French Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
Luminous Sculpture Abyss 17
Located in SAINT-BRÈS, FR
This porcelain sculpture is inspired by the fascinating and magical universe of the Abyss. An unknown and mysterious world in which even the richest imagination can still be surprise...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Other French Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Sculpture Abyss
Located in SAINT-BRÈS, FR
This porcelain sculpture is inspired by the fascinating and magical universe of the Abyss. An unknown and mysterious world in which even the richest imagination can still be surprise...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Other French Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Luminous Sculpture Abyss 19
Located in SAINT-BRÈS, FR
This porcelain sculpture is inspired by the fascinating and magical universe of the Abyss. An unknown and mysterious world in which even the richest imagination can still be surprise...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Other French Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Bronze statue of Gloria Victis, circa 1880, by Barbedienne
By F. Barbedienne Foundry
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A fine quality bronze sculpture of Gloria Carrying the Angel Victis, Cast by Barbedienne and After a Model by Marius-Jean-Antonin Mercie´ (French, 1845-1916). The draped figure...
Category
19th Century Antique French Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Luminous Sculpture Abyss 5
Located in SAINT-BRÈS, FR
This porcelain sculpture is inspired by the fascinating and magical universe of the Abyss. An unknown and mysterious world in which even the richest imagination can still be surprise...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Other French Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Sculpture "Totem" in wood with blue patina
Located in Paris, FR
Interesting sculpture "Totem" in carved wood partially colored in blue.
Directly carved in a dead tree trunk.
Category
Early 2000s French Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Luminous Sculpture Abyss 17
Located in SAINT-BRÈS, FR
This porcelain sculpture is inspired by the fascinating and magical universe of the Abyss. An unknown and mysterious world in which even the richest imagination can still be surprise...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Other French Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Luminous Sculpture Abyss 18
Located in SAINT-BRÈS, FR
This porcelain sculpture is inspired by the fascinating and magical universe of the Abyss. An unknown and mysterious world in which even the richest imagination can still be surprise...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Other French Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Bud vase
By Juliette Teste
Located in LE PRÉ-SAINT-GERVAIS, FR
A sculpture with a purpose, this bud vase is a staple in Teste’s work. Glazed in a shino pale pink glaze with an interesting craze, it has a strong presence ...
Category
2010s Organic Modern French Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
Artefact on the Wall Sculpture by Lea Munsch
Located in Geneve, CH
Artefact sculpture by Lea Munsch
Dimensions: W 28 x D 16 x H 49 cm
Materials: Stoneware
Each piece is signed and numbered on /20. Each piece is unique with its own personality a...
Category
2010s Modern French Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
Artefact Table Lamp by Lea Munsch
Located in Geneve, CH
Artefact table lamp by Lea Munsch
Dimensions: W 28 x D 16 x H 49 cm
Materials: Stoneware
Numbered on /20. Each piece is unique with its own personality and marks. There is an openin...
Category
2010s Modern French Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
Iconic Georges Pelletier Set of 3 TOTEM Floor Lamps in Enameled Ceramic
By Georges Pelletier
Located in Santa Gertrudis, Baleares
Set of 3 white TOTEM in enamelled ceramic, floor lamps set bringing to your space an amazing light experience when the night falls, and a stunning sculptural presence during the day....
Category
2010s Other French Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Sculpture "Totem" in wood with red patina
Located in Paris, FR
Interesting sculpture "Totem" in carved wood partially colored in red.
Directly handcarved in a dead tree trunk.
Category
Early 2000s French Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Sculpted Green Wall Lamp in Glazed Ceramic Large Size by Laura Gonzalez
By laura gonzalez
Located in Paris, FR
Wall lamp in geometric relief made by the Jean Roger workshop in Paris. Available in green, yellow, blue and matte white colors and in two sizes.
Category
2010s Modern French Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Unique Sohoko Vase by Emmanuelle Roule
Located in Geneve, CH
Unique Sohoko vase by Emmanuelle Roule
Unique piece
Dimensions: W 25 x H 30 cm
Materials: Stoneware. Porcelain, clay
Unique piece of stoneware, in porcelain, modelled paper clay. Wi...
Category
2010s Post-Modern French Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Clay, Porcelain, Stoneware
Unique ÉNOTA_21_09 Sculpture by Emmanuelle Roule
Located in Geneve, CH
Unique ÉNOTA_21_09 Sculpture by Emmanuelle Roule
Unique piece
Dimensions: W 26 x H 55 cm
Materials: stoneware, glaze
Unique piece modelled in fired light g...
Category
2010s Post-Modern French Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
Unique Coupelle_Otoma_08 Bowl by Emmanuelle Roule
Located in Geneve, CH
Unique Coupelle_Otoma_08 bowl by Emmanuelle Roule
Unique piece
Dimensions: Ring 45cm, bowl 27 cm
Materials: stoneware, glaze, glass
Unique piece modelled in white stoneware, wi...
Category
2010s Post-Modern French Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware, Glass
Unique Énota_21_01 Sculpture by Emmanuelle Roule
Located in Geneve, CH
Unique Énota_21_01 sculpture by Emmanuelle Roule
Unique piece
Dimensions: W 14 x H 36 cm
Materials: Earthenware
Unique handmade piece in partially glazed red earthenware. With metal...
Category
2010s Post-Modern French Abstract Sculptures
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Abstract Sculpture by Jules Agard
By Jules Agard
Located in Sammu-shi, Chiba
Abstract Sculpture by Jules Agard
Hand painted abstract sculpture by Jules Agard in Valaris terracotta from the 1950s.
??Jules Agard??
Jules Agard, ...
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1950s Mid-Century Modern Vintage French Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Terracotta
Unique Coupelle_Otoma_07 Bowl by Emmanuelle Roule
Located in Geneve, CH
Unique Coupelle_Otoma_07 bowl by Emmanuelle Roule
Unique piece
Dimensions: D 38 x H 6 cm
Materials: stoneware, glass
Unique piece modelled in white stoneware, with glazes. Made...
Category
2010s Post-Modern French Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware, Glass
Unique Tatemono_01 Sculpture by Emmanuelle Roule
Located in Geneve, CH
Unique Tatemono_01 sculpture by Emmanuelle Roule
Unique piece
Dimensions: W 20 x H 35 cm
Materials: Earthenware
Unique piece hand-modelled in beige earthenware building from Ro...
Category
2010s Post-Modern French Abstract Sculptures
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Earthenware
Unique TATEMONO_02 Sculpture by Emmanuelle Roule
Located in Geneve, CH
Unique TATEMONO_02 sculpture vase by Emmanuelle Roule
Unique piece
Dimensions: W 20 x H 35 cm
Materials: Earthenware, stoneware
Unique piece hand-modelled in beige earthenware and w...
Category
2010s Post-Modern French Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Earthenware, Stoneware
Unique YOTA_Doki_03 Vase by Emmanuelle Roule
Located in Geneve, CH
Unique YOTA_Doki_03 vase by Emmanuelle Roule
Unique piece
Dimensions: D 14 x W 21 x H 40 cm
Materials: Stoneware
Vase made of white stoneware, partially glazed with effect refl...
Category
2010s Post-Modern French Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
Edyu Wall Sculpture by Lea Munsch
Located in Geneve, CH
Edyu wall sculpture by Lea Munsch
Signed and numbered on 10
Dimensions: W 42 x D 4 x H 50 cm
Materials: Stoneware
Each piece is unique with its own personality and marks.
Léa Munsch...
Category
2010s Modern French Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
Unique Otoma_03 Sculpture Totem by Emmanuelle Roule
Located in Geneve, CH
Unique Otoma_03 sculpture Totem by Emmanuelle Roule.
Unique piece.
Dimensions: W 25 x H 35 cm
Materials: stoneware, earthenware
Unique piece in 2...
Category
2010s Post-Modern French Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Earthenware, Stoneware
Unique Hydra_doki_06 Vase by Emmanuelle Roule
Located in Geneve, CH
Unique Hydra_doki_06 vase by Emmanuelle Roule
Unique piece
Dimensions: W 25 x H 32 cm
Materials: Stoneware
Vase made of white stoneware, partially glazed with effect reflection...
Category
2010s Post-Modern French Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
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Located in Geneve, CH
Unique SOHOKO_03 vase by Emmanuelle Roule
Unique piece
Dimensions: W 20 x H 28 cm
Materials: Stoneware
Unique piece modelled in white stoneware,...
Category
2010s Post-Modern French Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
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