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Hitomi Hosono: C’est le Bouquet!
27, avenue Albert Thomas 87 000 Limoges
“Confined for centuries to vase bodies and plate rims, flowers are breaking out from the decorative arts to enrich contemporary art. The Fondation Bernardaud is presenting seventeen international artists, inspired by the floral theme, that have elected to work in ceramics, most of whom have never exhibited in France. The broad spectrum of ideas expressed in these pieces demonstrates that this ancient, timeless theme has an amazing ability to regenerate itself.”
In all cultures, flowers are present in the transactions between the living and the dead, between humans and divinities, and many different meanings are assigned to them. For the artist, the floral theme offers an inexhaustible repertory to address topical issues, whether defending endangered biodiversity or denouncing forms of domination. Several of the works refer to the grand tradition of 17th-century still-life painting. This is a way for the artists to criticize today’s waste-generating society while claiming the status of “art work” for ceramics. In a day and age when challenges to all forms of authority is giving rise to the rejection of hierarchies and frameworks, ceramic flowers are doing away with the old academic distinctions between “major” arts and decorative arts, between art history and mass culture. Flowers and ceramics may be the ultimate expression of modernity. That’s the message that C’est le bouquet ! is sending us.”
Hélène Huret
Director of the Fondation Bernardaud and exhibition curator
Joséphine Le Foll
Author of the catalogue and art historian specialized in the floral painting genre and Renaissance art
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Current Exhibitions
Future Exhibitions
Past Exhibitions
- PAD London Design + Art, 2023
- Bouke de Vries | Visions in Porcelain: A Rake’s Progress at the Soane Museum
- The Treasure House Fair, 2023
- TEFAF New York, 2023
- On the Surface: Flora Inspired Ceramics of Hitomi Hosono at the Minnesota Marine Art Museum
- TEFAF Maastricht, 2023
- The Salon Art + Design, 2022
- INTERVENTIONS: Michael Eden at Cheekwood
- Joon Yong Kim at the International Festival of Glass
- PAD London Design + Art, 2022
- Michael Eden | For the Love of the Master, 25 artists fascinated by Piranesi
- Masterpiece, 2022
- TEFAF New York Spring, 2022
- Homo Faber, 2022: Living Treasures of Europe and Japan
- Adrian Sassoon at Sotheby’s, London
- Adrian Sassoon at the London House of Modernity
- From a Distance – an online presentation
- Masterpiece Online, 2020
- TEFAF Maastricht, 2020
- SALON ART+DESIGN 2019
- PAD London Art+Design, 2019
- Masterpiece, 2019
- TEFAF New York Spring, 2019
- TEFAF Maastricht, 2019
- The Salon Art + Design, 2018
- Michael Eden: Form & Transform
- PAD LONDON ART+DESIGN, 2018
- Masterpiece, 2018
- TEFAF New York Spring, 2018
- TEFAF Maastricht, 2018
- Hitomi Hosono: C’est le Bouquet!
- Reimagining Nature: Hitomi Hosono’s Memories in Porcelain
- Salon of Art + Design, 2017
- PAD LONDON ART+DESIGN, 2017
- MICHAEL EDEN : WEDGWOOD AND WOULDN’T
- Masterpiece, 2017
- TEFAF New York Spring, 2017
- TEFAF Maastricht, 2017
- THE SALON: ART+DESIGN, New York 2016
- Felicity Aylieff: Explorations in Blue
- Kate Malone: Inspired by Waddesdon
- PAD LONDON ART+DESIGN, 2016
- Masterpiece, 2016
- Michael Eden: Recent Work at Linley
- Michael Eden: History Re-printed
- TEFAF, Maastricht, 2016
- Salon of Art + Design, NY, 2015
- Hitomi Hosono: Brook Street – An Artist’s Eye
- PAD LONDON ART+DESIGN, 2015
- Masterpiece, 2015
- Art Antiques, London, 2015
- COLLECT, 2015
- TEFAF, Maastricht, 2015
- Salon of Art + Design, New York, 2014
- PAD LONDON ART+DESIGN, 2014
- Masterpiece, 2014
- Art Antiques, London, 2014
- COLLECT, 2014
- TEFAF, Maastricht, 2014
- Kate Malone: A Celebration of Clay
- Colin Reid: Casting Brilliance
- Salon of Art + Design, New York, 2013
- PAD LONDON ART+DESIGN, 2013
- Junko Mori: Coppiced Wood
- Masterpiece, 2013
- Art Antiques, London, 2013
- Giovanni Corvaja: Gold – Status and Glory
- COLLECT, 2013
- TEFAF, Maastricht, 2013