Born in 1954, Eric Astoul is a contemporary potter and ceramist based in the French region of Berry. After different classes and workshop sessions, Eric Astoul becomes in 1982 a permanent artist at the Centre of Contemporary Ceramic in La Borne. This is where he uses an Anagama oven, that is to say a wood-fired oven from Thaïland. Potteries and ceramic sculptures in stoneware or porcelain are oven-baked at 1300C° during five or six days.
Eric Astoul (né en 1954)
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Eric Astoul’s pots, vases or sculptures are mainly stoneware realizations. Their surfaces are lightly embossed and create singular texture effects and colouration. Earthly tones of red, orange, brown and sometimes black, create the impression that flames were here just a moment ago. Shapes recall sometimes volcanic structure (lot 172) and show a unique work on rock material and its effects. Material minerality seem enhanced by the refined and embossed shapes Eric Astoul gives to his objects. The curved volumes of his vases or pots as well as his sculptures shed light on containing functionality. The surface minerality seems nonetheless to take over on the anatomy and function of the object. Monumentality is here to be seen in some of his creations such as stoneware vases (2009-2010).
Eric Astoul (né en 1954)
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According to Robert Deblander, Eric Astoul’s main concerns "are the ones of a creator, a researcher, an artist who deeply feels the rich vocabulary of clay, fire and shape on the intangible base of stoneware medium. He is destined to overcome utilitarian object, as wonderful as it may have been : it is to be brought back, rewritten, rethought and enriched by the contemporary ceramist’s thousand nuances. "
Eric Astoul (né en 1954)
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Robert Deblander in La revue de la céramique et du verre, n°96.
