Alistair Danhieux - Thomas Bohle

Alistair Danhieux made a name for himself in the early 2000s, most notably with his first solo show at Galerie de l'Ancienne Poste in 2009, where he presented the "naked raku" works for which he is now renowned. However, Alistair is not one of those creators who settle comfortably into a successful production and never deviate from it. After a foray into sculptural forms in stoneware, the artist began exploring high-temperature firings around 2014, using stoneware and porcelain, which provides him with the white canvas to return to highly graphic decoration, always black on white, applied with a brush to vase shapes, often closed by carved wooden lids.

Thomas Bohle's iconic forms are present here through his famous "Mushroom Forms" and his equally famous footed bowls, whose double-walled construction allows the artist to compose a color contrast between bright, shiny glazes on the one hand, and matte, black enamel on the other. Thomas Bohle concentrates on the relationship between form and color, and the result is an exciting dialogue between elegantly proportioned shapes and breathtaking glazes that transcend strict geometric lines. At the same time, the technical perfection he displays is not simply something static that can be taken for granted, but rather the expression of a constant desire to surpass himself.