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jean fontaine is a ceramist sculptor accepted as a great artist in the world of contemporary ceramics.
the universe
of the sculptor is populated by hybrid creatures,
perfect tangles of bodies, animals and elements of heavy machines. his ceramics
dreams mix with humour, sweat and grease, life and machinery. these surprising
creatures reveal us a phantasmagorical universe, a real mythology of the future. museum of the faîence of sarreguemines
the sculptor
jean fontaine puts the finger on the perverse gears which set in motion reason
and madness. the human body, it is a skeleton, bones, muscles, nerves, a brain
and that functions according to a logic close to mechanics. in these hybrids –“ mécanostranges”, “crazymachines”, “locotechnics” - all however, are eminently logical and rational. that could work. in any case, it gives the impression as if it would work. thanks to its juggling acts, the ceramist jean fontaine develops to rise the trompe-l’oeil.- he plays with the forms, as others play with the words. he is not deprived to triturate the names of its sculptures or to make works with poor logic. because, with fontaine, you arrive at the report that too much reason strengthens the absurdity. too perfect machines prove inevitably the debility of the homo sapiens. the human being is mostly imperfect, impulsive, vagueness and delicate. also completely homogeneous states cannot throw out the individual person, this small egocentric wheel, intractable, indolent. vis-à-vis to this “totalitechnic”, god himself is not more that an old bearded man, just good enough to supervise the celestial mechanics and to activate his oil-can to lubricate the terrestrial wheels. Now you see how the forewords lose their postscript, since you still do not own a typewriter in order to write the forewords or, better said, to write the pre-jokes. michel froidevaux |
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