Laurent Petit

Plant partitions

September 12 - November 5, 2015

Laurent Petit. Tronquine, 2015 - h. 27 x 42 x 27.5 cm

Somewhere between abstract and figurative, Laurent Petit's ceramic sculptures are inspired by the world of plants. Called " Arbologies " by the artist himself, these plastic explorations first presented to the public in 2009 "are rooted in the intimate relationship between earth and tree. As a nourishing element and growth medium for the tree, earth becomes a privileged means of reinterpreting the plant score. Going beyond the simple evocation of nature, the works born of this approach traverse the field of plastic archetypes, and have grown stronger over the years.
A selection of some fifteen works, some previously unseen and created especially for the exhibition, will illustrate the artist's career over the last few years. A catalog is published to commemorate this first major solo exhibition at Galerie de l'Ancienne Poste.

Laurent Petit in Miroir de l'Art

Laurent Petit leaves nothing to chance, and while he builds his work step by step with rigor and invention, he never indulges in improvisation. Whether in the treatment of the clay, which he always inflects with traces, pressures or deformations, or in the use of the brush, which he uses with precision to apply engobes and glazes, he aims to be, like the painter in front of his canvas, a painter on earth. All this lends his work a strong formal and emotional charge. arbologies.
Bernard Courcoul, 2010.