Laurent Petit & Benoît Pouplard: Sculpting Memory at Stadtmuseum Siegburg, Siegburg
July 13 – September 8, 2024
This year’s Siegburg exhibition of contemporary ceramics brings together the free works of two artists from France who break with the traditional techniques of ceramic production.
Both are orientated towards nature – Laurent Petit towards the earth, trees and plants; Benoît Pouplard towards water and ice. Both work with fractures, cracks, folds and fusions. They both use the moulding technique, but in very different ways. With their different approaches, both thematize what remains when time, erosion, or destruction by nature or man do their work.
Despite these analogies in their work, Laurent Petit and Benoît Pouplard speak a very authentic language of their own. Each in their own way, they are in search of an expression for the dialectic of chaos and order, growth and transience, the transformation of matter, the vulnerability of creation and the memory of nature and history(ies), which are subject to the change of becoming and passing away.
Now these two artists are meeting at an exhibition venue that presents the history of a city and its region from its geological origins to the present day; it is in the nature of museums that this history is only presented in fragments, some of which have been preserved by chance. This makes her exhibition all the more meaningful when it comes to the question of what we remember and preserve, when, in what form and for what purpose.
The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue.
Contact
stadtmuseum@siegburg.de
Stadtmusem Siegburg
Markt 46
53721 Siegburg
Germany
