Nadia Pasquer
Nadia Pasquer – Réf 16-2
- Born in 1940 in Lons-le-Saunier (Jura)
- Visual Art Studies
- 1961-72. Drawing teacher at the Alsacienne School, Paris.
- 1974 . Creation of workshop and a high-temperature wood kiln in Morogues (Cher).
- 1989 onwards. Polished pieces smoked in sawdust-fuelled kilns
- More recently, development of her work on white pieces
Geometrically the objects that I model originate from a sphere, Plato’s perfect solid, starred polyhedra, crystalline arrangements. My work is an intuitive and infinite declination, from this geometry which generates volumes built from a “mobile principle”, without base or direction, they are positioned on their own balancing point bearing their centre and their movement from within. Each object is unique. Together they form a unity. Polished, engraved, and perforated in order to form a celestial map, they are, to quote Gaston Bachelard in “La terre et les reverie de la volonté” (Earth and Reflections of the Will), “the synthesis of images of deepest earth and starry heavens.” Smoked, they are a brilliant black, and are both captors and emitter of light – objects of contemplation. White, they design light and shade in soft or extreme contrast.
Nadia Pasquer, 2013.
RECENT SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2004
- “Orbites”, Mouvements Modernes Gallery, Paris, France
2005
- “Géométrie céleste”, Art-tension Gallery, Bourges, France
2006
- François Dudouit Gallery, Honfleur, France
2008
- Instalation “Polyèdres, mélancolie” with Claude Pasquer, paintaing, Atelier du Soleil, Fraisse des Corbières, France
2010
- “Celestial geometry”, Arc en Seine Gallery, New York, USA
2011
- “Polyèdres étoilés”, NeC Gallery, Paris, France
2012
- “Géométrie céleste”, Empreintes Gallery, Aydat, Puy-de-Dôme, France
2013
- “Galaxie”, Galerie de l’Ancienne Poste, Toucy, Yonne, France
2015
- “Out Of The Fire”. Maison Gerard, New York (USA)
2016
- Galerie Nec, Paris (F)
- “La géométrie en dialogue, Nadia et Claude Pasquer; Galerie Empreintes, Aydat (F)
RECENT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2004
- Sofa, New York, USA
- Lineart Gand, Belgique, with Geneviève Godar Gallery, France
2005
- Galerie Pierre Marie Giraud, Brussels, Belgium
2006
- “Funky zen – une certaine céramique en France” with Mouvements Modernes Gallery, Paris, France
- Art brussels Belgique 24th contemporary art fair, Pierre-Marie Giraud Gallery, Belgium
2007
- 14th biennale de céramique contemporaine de Châteauroux, France
- Biennale de Chartres de Bretagne, France
- 11th Pavillon des arts et du design, with the Pierre-Marie Giraud Gallery, France
2008
- “Design Art London”, Londres, Grande-Bretagne, with the Pierre-Marie Giraud Gallery, UK
2009
- “Blanc noir”, Giroussens, France
- Galerie Pierre-Marie Giraud, Brussels, at the Arc en Seine Gallery , Paris France
- “Céramique française” Saragosse, Spain
- “Feria internacional de ceramica”, Saragosse, Spain
- 13ème Pavillon des arts et du design, Tuileries, Paris, With the Pierre-Marie Giraud Gallery, France
- “Blanc”, Galerie NeC, Paris, France
- “Variations of white”, Pierre-Marie Giraud Gallery , Brussels, Belgium
2010
- “Black, blanc, rouge”, Galerie NeC, Paris
- Foire internationale de Bâle, Suisse, with the Pierre-Marie Giraud Gallery, Switzerland
- Tefaf Maastritch (NL) with the Pierre-Marie Giraud Gallery , Brussels, belgium
- “Group show/céramiques”, Galerie NeC, Paris, France
- “Un regard sur la céramique, fables contemporaine”, Galerie Mouvements Modernes, J.J. Dutko, Paris, France
2011
- “Un peintre, un céramiste”, avec François Righi, Centre céramique de La Borne, France
- “La matière-l’imagination”, Gyenggi international CeraMIX, Corea
2012
- “Art table” avec Olivier Leroi, Centre céramique de La Borne, France
- “Design Miami”, Miami Beach, USA, avec la Galerie Pierre-Marie Giraud, USA
2013
- “Around bodies”, Galerie Anoa – Patrick Mignot, Paris, France
- “Design Miami / Bâle”, Bâle, Switzerland, with the Pierre-Marie Giraud Gallery, Switzerland
- “De terre et d’eau”, « écliptique» Château d’eau, Bourges, France
2014
- “Pierre Staudenmeyer, la passion céramique”, exposition/hommage with the Patrick Mignot Gallery, Sotheby’s, Paris. France
BIBLIOGRAPHY
- Virginie DESRANTE, “Nadia Pasquer”, in “Circuit céramique à Sèvres. La scène française contemporaine”, Edition Sèvres-Cité de la Céramique, 2010.
- Nicole CRESTOU, “La reconnaissance d’une œuvre”, La Revue de la Céramique et du Verre, N°181 – Novembre-décembre 2011.
PUBLIC & PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
- Sèvres – Cité de la Céramique, France
- Brest Museum of Fine Arts, France
- Châteauroux Museum of Fine Arts, France
- Sarreguemines Museum, France
- Déchelette Museum, Roanne, France
- Bernard Palissy Museum, France
- St Amand les Eaux Museum, France
- Bibliothèque de Romorantin, France
- Brussels French Cultural Institute, Belgium
- Cargeillo foundation, Portugal
- Ichon World Ceramic Center Kyonggi, Korea
