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Christine Viennet's ceramics collection
Guided tour on friday, saturday & monday
At 3:30 pm, 4:30 pm, 5:30 pm
And on apointment
Open the whole year
Tel.
+33 (0) 467
491 760
+33 (0) 467
281 561
Fax
+33 (0) 467 281 975
Mail
Christine Viennet |
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of Norwegian family, has an evident love for nature and a real passion for
ceramics. She creates with great talent vases, plates, platters, fountains… enlivened and decorated with batracians,
fish, creyfish, reptiles, fruits, flowers, plants, insects… and other animal life.
Through her Art of modeling and different Trompe l'œil technics, Christine Viennet expresses life and mouvement,
colours and temperament with a continuous joy and creativity.
In her Béziers workshop, at the Château de Raissac,
South of France, Christine Viennet works and exhibits permanently.
You will discover there a homage and passionate eye for the work
of Bernard Palissy, famous ceramicist of the Renaissance period
whom Christine Viennet admires, relates and perpetuate through her
museum and her personnal work.
Through her Art of Trompe l'œil, Christine Viennet follows a tradition that has inspired,
enchanted and amused people for centuries.
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Biography
Born in Tönsberg, Southern Norway, Christine
Viennet spends her youth between Norway, Switzerland, England and
France. Very early attracted to the Art of Ceramics, she follows
classes at the school of Art of Oslo and works with famous Norvegian
ceramicists, Rolf Hansen and Bente Von Krogh.
In 1970, she spends one year in Perpignan in the workshop of Lurçat
and Picard Le Doux.
Happy and observant, Christine Viennet studies nature and life around
her and very early specialises in the Art of Trompe l'œil.
Her artwork is exhibited internationally and belongs to international
Museums and Collectors.
Some recent exhibitions:
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Mai 2005 Exhibition with the Manufacture de Gien,
18 rue de l'Arcade, Paris |
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Mai through September 2005 Musée Bernard
Palissy, Lacapelle Biron, France |
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Mai through December 2005 Maison Régionale
des Arts de la Table, Arnay le Duc, France |
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Mai 2005 New York SOFA Lacoste Gallery, Concord,
MA, U.S.A. |
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June 2005 Pénèlope Show, Tokyo,
Japan |
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June 2005 Carré Rive Gauche, Galerie Saint
Martin, Paris |
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July through November 2005 Galerie Saint Martin,
Bretenoux, Lot, France |
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August 2005 “Objects of curiosity” Ferrin Gallery,
N.Y. U.S.A |
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October 2005
through March 2006 “La Belle et la Bête”
of Jean Cocteau, Pezenas, France |
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November
2005 Musée National de la Céramique,
Sèvres, Paris |
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Viennet shows in Museum stores, works for international interior
decorators, Bergdorf & Goodman, New York…
Permanent exhibitions at:
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Lacoste Gallery, Concord, MA. U.S.A |
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Galerie Saint Martin, 11
rue des Saint Pères, Paris… |
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