special exhibition

 
 

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24th April – 19th June 2016

"Le Geste"

Jean-Francois Fouilhoux, France

 

For more than forty years, Jean-François Fouilhoux has passionately explored the nearly infinite potential of traditional Chinese Celadon glaze. Yet his mastery has produced work that can hardly be equated with anything remotely traditional. His celadon alchemic potions, when used on his resolutely—some might even say aggressively—contemporary ceramic objects, form sculptures that the most celebrated celadon artists, curators, and collectors consider to be the purest examples of the supreme living master of this dimension of color, matter, space, light, and time. In Fouilhoux’s mind and hands, the ideal is a work of translucence inside with a satiny and polished outside. Worlds within the galaxies without

 

Examples:

 

Jean-Francois Fouilhoux
Jean-Francois Fouilhoux
Jean-Francois Fouilhoux

 

 

Jean-Francois Fouilhoux
Jean-Francois Fouilhoux
Jean-Francois Fouilhoux

 

 

Jean-Francois Fouilhoux
Jean-Francois Fouilhoux
Jean-Francois Fouilhoux
 

opening:

Sun, 24th April, 2016 11:30 – 18
opening speech by Rudolph Strasser, Munich
The artist will be present

closing event:
Sunday, 19th June, 2016 11:00 - 18

opening hours:

Tue – Fri 11 – 13 & 14.30 – 18
Sat 11 – 18
Sun, 24th April 11 – 18

exhibition site:

Galerie Heller
Friedrich-Ebert-Anlage 2
Im Stadtgarten
D-69117 Heidelberg

Tel: 06221 - 61 90 90
info@galerie-heller.de

 

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