Robert Deblander

14 novembre 2009 – 9 janvier 2010

Robert Deblander Robert Deblander is one of the great French ceramists. His turned and shaped pieces defined a new classicism in ceramics in the second half of the 20th century. A complete artist and an independent figure, he distinguished himself with emblematic stoneware and porcelain pottery shapes and a subtle color range of monochrome glazes. His round or breakwater-shaped vases, with their precise, highly architectural profile, literally cut through the space in which they are inserted, and even appear to be a fragment of it.

En 2001, l’exposition rétrospective de Robert Deblander au musée de la Céramique de Sèvres avait permis l’édition d’un livre catalogue. L’ouvrage épuisé est aujourd’hui réédité dans une version augmentée et réactualisée. L’auteur de cette nouvelle édition est Madame Antoinette Faÿ-Hallé, conservateur général du Patrimoine, chargé du musée national de Céramique de Sèvres.

Robert Deblander, who passed away in 2010, has a well-established reputation in France and abroad. The taut, monochrome classicism of his stoneware places him irrevocably in the avant-garde, alongside his counterparts (Joulia, Lerat, de Vinck...).