À l'accélération et à l'oubli
Ceramist and sculptor, Grégoire Scalabre trained from an early age as a wheel potter before turning his practice toward contemporary art, driven by a fascination with sculpture and monumental forms. His residency at the Manufacture nationale de Sèvres (2010–2013) marked a decisive moment in his career, during which he initiated his monumental accumulation work Astrée.
Winner of the Liliane Bettencourt Prize for the Intelligence of the Hand – Talents d’exception (2022), he continued his research at Villa Kujoyama in 2023, exploring the relationship between nature and ceramics. His work Sôane is part of the collection of the Musée des Arts Décoratifs. He has also exhibited at Galerie Nec in Paris, Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire, Modern Shapes Gallery in Antwerp, and Todd Merrill Gallery in New York.
His works are covered with thousands of miniature porcelain amphorae, each individually hand-thrown using traditional ceramic wheel techniques. Each piece comes to life as a singular form with harmonious lines, before assembling into large-scale compositions. Grégoire Scalabre plays with shifts in scale, evoking nature through its contrasts – the infinitely small and the infinitely large, order and disorder.
