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Sandstone sculpture and slip by Marie Rancillac, unique piece, signed.
Still lifes inspire me, they celebrate the beauty of simple things. I draw from it the naturally beautiful forms of plants to make a ceramic sculpture.
Indeed, what could be more attractive for the sculptor than the curves of the squash, the curve of the pears, the roundness of a turnip and other inexhaustible anthropomorphic seductions.
Fruits, vegetables and even trees are mounted in strips of chamotte sandstone and then assembled into a composition of raw earth. After a first firing, a colored slip is added in places for a two-color bare earth / pigmented earth appearance.
The important thing is a volume between figuration and abstraction, a modeling game that offers multiple interpretations without betraying either the object or the material. Having become imperishable, this transformed nature perhaps brings us back to the Garden of Eden.
