Carte blanche at Musée La Piscine in Roubaix
LA GALERIE DE L’ANCIENNE POSTE
AT THE ROUBAIX LA PISCINE MUSEUM
March 14 - September 20, 2020
Carte blanche at the Galerie de l'Ancienne Poste, La Piscine museum, Roubaix, June 2020
Created 23 years ago in Toucy, the Galerie de l'Ancienne Poste consolidates its national recognition in the spring of 2020 with an invitation from the museum. La Piscine of Roubaix, which offers him a Carte blanche "From March 14 to September 20, 2020.
As a local illustration, the venue presents previously unseen works by the four European artists selected for this event: Finnish artist Erna Aaltonen, English artist Ursula Morley-Price, French artist Laurent Petit and Belgian artist Ann Van Hoey.
Erna Aaltonen has enjoyed an international career that has taken her to the United States and various European countries, where audiences have praised the shapes and colors of her highly mastered work. In 2014, the artist was awarded the Grand Prix du Design by the Finnish State, and the following year the Gold Medal of the International Ceramics Museum in Faenza, Italy, for her body of work. The Galerie de l'Ancienne Poste, which represents her in France, devoted two monographic exhibitions to her in 2015 and 2018.
Ursula Morley-Price regularly exhibits in New York, and his work has entered the collections of the world's most prestigious art and decorative arts museums (MoMA, Metropolitan Museum, Sèvres, Musée des Arts décoratifs de Paris, Limoges...). The Galerie de l'Ancienne Poste organized an acclaimed retrospective at the Musée d'Art Moderne de Troyes in 2013. His work was presented at the Musée des Arts décoratifs in Paris as part of the exhibition AD Intérieurs, Décors à vivre. La Galerie de l'Ancienne Poste La Galerie de l'Ancienne Poste organized a retrospective of his work at the Musée d'Art moderne de Troyes in 2013. His work was presented at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris as part of the exhibition AD Intérieurs, Décors à vivre. The Galerie de l'Ancienne Poste, which represents her in France, devoted two monographic exhibitions to her in 2014 and 2016.
Laurent Petit began exhibiting in 2001. His work was quickly noticed, and was presented at the Biennale Internationale de Céramique de Châteauroux in 2003, then at the "Parcours céramique Carougeois" in Switzerland, and more recently as part of the 2013 edition of the Triennale Internationale de la Céramique et du Verre de Mons in Belgium and the Biennale de Vallauris in 2019. Galerie de l'Ancienne Poste devoted a solo show to him in 2015 and will present his new works in spring 2020.
As Ann Van Hoey Since her first selection at the Biennale Internationale de Céramique contemporaine de Vallauris in 2008, and her invitation in 2017 for an artist residency at the Yingge Museum in Tapei (Taiwan), which culminated in the installation of a permanent work at the museum, the artist has pursued an exemplary career over the years, punctuated by new formal proposals that are now making her a household name. A finalist in the renowned Loewe Craft Prize in 2018, the artist has been invited by the Australian National University in Canberra in 2019. The Galerie de l'Ancienne Poste devoted a solo exhibition to her in November 2017 and has been representing her work in France since 2018.
laurent Petit at La Piscine museum in Roubaix in June 2020
Erna Aaltonen at La Piscine museum in Roubaix in June 2020
Ann Van Hoey at La Piscine museum in Roubaix in June 2020
Ursula Morley-Price at La Piscine museum in Roubaix in June 2020
