Nadia Pasquer

For her new exhibition at the Galerie de l'Ancienne Poste, the celebrated French ceramist Nadia Pasquer reinterprets his favorite theme of celestial bodies and constellations. Here, the chosen volumes and their variations are combined to form duos or trios. The difference in size between these volumes and their proximity to each other creates a notion of space and a dialogue: the sphere, always, which contains within it all possible volumes, suggests movement and the search for a point of equilibrium; the cube, for its stability, even if it sometimes takes on a "tilted air"; the cone, whose dynamics indicate a direction and whose minute point of equilibrium makes it light; the bi-cone with its two points like the needles of a compass. Two cones associated by their tips are like magnets.
The engraved and perforated cylinders are akin to "sight objects". And some polyhedra... In fact, a number of individual works are also featured in the exhibition.
Anyone can interpret these objects to make them their own, and bring out the interplay between their geometric content, their poetic potential and their tactile appeal.
To create these volumes, the artist favors an economy of means. The closed volumes are modelled around a void. Their surface is stretched, finely smoothed and, above all, meticulously polished to obtain a complete black after the smoke firing, revealing the engravings and perforations that are the inverted images of the sky. The white volumes are slip-coated with porcelain, while the blue volumes are slip-coated with blue clay. The black of night, the white of the moon, and the blue of the sky as a punctuation mark. Nadia Pasquer's work has been exhibited at major contemporary art venues such as New York, Miami and Basel, and is now enjoying international recognition.

Exhibition catalogue
Nadia Pasquer in Fine Arts
Nadia Pasquer in the Revue de la céramique et du verre