Ceramic sculpture "Black marmite" by Daphné Corregan - current exhibition

"Black marmite" ceramic sculpture, smoky earth, unique piece dated 1999, signed Daphné Corregan.

Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States but trained in Fine Arts in the south of France, Daphne Corregan evolves in the landscape of contemporary ceramics where she continues to mix firings, lands, cultures. She taught object and ceramic design at the Ecole Supérieure d'Arts Plastiques de Monaco from 1989 to 2015. Daphne Corregan regularly exhibits her work in France and in many countries: United States, Switzerland, Ireland, England, Holland, Germany, China... His works have entered prestigious public collections, such as those of the Museum of Decorative Arts in Paris, the La Piscine Museum in Roubaix, the National Ceramics Museum of Sèvres or even the Museum of Art and Design in New York, USA.

Three rhizomatic axes structured by the idea of ​​the container without content characterize his work: images of pots (pitchers, bowls, cylinders…), anthropomorphic figures (heads, hands, feet, skulls…), and finally a multitude of objects heterogeneous (clouds, architectures, houses, rubber bands, rings, etc.). The series she creates are often inspired by anecdotes, feelings or events.

Thus, his work is not only a formal work, it draws on the imagination and constitutes a veritable alphabet of shapes, textures, graphic elements, enriched over the course of the artist's journey. His taste and curiosity for tools, travel, ethnology, reading and various artistic practices broaden his visual vocabulary.

* excerpt from the text Tourner Autour du Pot by painter André Debono for the catalog Three Places and Between, exhibition by Daphne Corregan at Galerie Capazza 2021