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Title: Ronan Bouroullec: Bas-Reliefs
Author: BOUROULLEC RONAN
Format: PAPERBACK
Imprint: NIEVES, SWITZERLAND
Price: $33.00
Publishing status: Active
We could look at Ronan Bouroullec’s ceramic
bas-reliefs and see traces of a language we
recognize: the silhouettes of familiar objects,
the contours of known landscapes. We might
be tempted to look at the work as an alphabet
of mere things, think of the pieces “objectively.”
But as tableaux, the reliefs are not quite right:
one has an edge that goes too far, another a
circle that’s of-center and about to roll, and still
another, a pinkish mass that could topple over.
Bouroullec’s work is most rewarding if we
listen as it asks for a new language altogether.
Languages have always been born from clay
(one thinks of cuneiform seals); it’s easy to
believe that Bouroullec is developing his own. At
the very least, these pieces – somewhere at the
intersection between painting, sculpture, and
design – demand new verbs, words like “bevel”
and “disintegrate.” (And it’s possible, the works
say, that there is nothing so lovely as a beveled
edge: the way they taper is like a caress. The
way they dissolve onto a background feels
digital and also deeply analogue. These efects
are both visual and tactile, as in: we see them
and we want to touch them.
24 Pages, 19.5 x 25.5 cm, softcover
ISBN: 9783907179444
Edition: 01