Jacques Monneraud’s Exceptional Ceramic Vessels Meticulously Mimic Corrugated Cardboard — Colossal




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#ceramics
#clay
#Jacques Monneraud
#pottery

June 10, 2024

Kate Mothes

a ceramic pitcher that appears like corrugated cardboard with tape on its seams

All photos © Jacques Monneraud, shared with permission

At first look, you’d be forgiven for pondering that if any of Jacques Monneraud’s vessels had been stuffed with water, they’d soak proper by way of and break up on the seams. And that’s precisely what the artist desires you to suppose! Extremely, these vessels are manufactured from clay.

Monneraud’s items seem light-weight and virtually haphazard, as if repurposed shortly from corrugated cardboard. In fact, solely meticulous consideration to element might lead to such improbable visible trickery. “I actually preferred the concept of having the ability to freeze fragility,” he tells Colossal.

The artist started working with ceramics solely three years in the past, establishing a studio in southwest France the place he continues to experiment and develop upon his love for the medium. His new curiosity developed virtually by likelihood, following one thing of a inventive drought. He says:

I began as a graphic designer/illustrator and shortly turned a inventive director in an promoting firm. Throughout these years, I regularly drifted away from what I beloved to do within the first place, which was creating. As somebody who grew up in a household of artists and makers, I all the time pictured myself working with my arms sometime. However right here I used to be, spending hours in conferences discussing model methods. After I realized that, I made a decision that it was time to provide this dream a attempt. After just a few months looking for this “maker job,” I stumbled upon a video of somebody working on the potter’s wheel. I used to be immediately hooked.

Monneraud instantly booked a workshop to be taught the fundamentals, and some weeks later, he give up his job to pursue pottery full-time. By way of the inherent strategy of trial and error, he discovered and grew from failure. “I used to be unsuccessfully attempting to acquire a selected glaze impact that I really like, so I began enthusiastic about a ‘uncooked assortment’ manufactured from unglazed items,” he says.

Researching and testing is an inextricable a part of of Monneraud’s every day method within the studio. By way of an intuitive course of of mixing several types of clay and quite a lot of consistencies, he landed on a mixture that evoked the feel of cardboard. He knew he was onto one thing when a good friend visited his studio, and standing solely inches from the work, requested, “Oh, you’re working with cardboard now?” Monneraud had achieved the thrilling optical impact he was looking for. And the icing on the cake, so to talk, is the exact utility of skinny glaze, like a delicately-applied piece of clear tape.

Monneraud’s work shall be on view throughout Saint-Sulpice Céramique in Paris from June 27 to 30. Discover extra on his web site and Instagram.

 

a ceramic tea kettle that appears like corrugated cardboard with tape on its seams

two side-by-side images of a ceramic picture—an overview on the left and a detail of the top on the right—that appears like corrugated cardboard with tape on its seams

a ceramic pitcher that appears like corrugated cardboard with tape on its seams

two side-by-side images of ceramic kettles or pitchers that look like corrugated cardboard, with an overview of one of the left and a detail of the spout and lid of another on the right

 a detail of a ceramic pitcher that appears like corrugated cardboard with tape on its seam

#ceramics
#clay
#Jacques Monneraud
#pottery

 

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