A collective exhibition presented by the TONKA gallery at the Floréal Belleville exhibition space
43 rue des Couronnes in Paris
From April 21 to 24, 2022
The ephemeral gallery TONKA brings together ceramic works, sculptures and unique pieces of about twenty ceramists and visual artists. Under the funny title "A snail under a cloth" the exhibition - in the manner of this surprise guest - also reveals collages, sketches, drawings and prints.
What unites the artists at Floréal Belleville? Ceramics, at the beginning, but also their bias of a surprise in the medium, which makes everyday objects rise in colors, disguises them or reinvents them. Their artistic approaches, all very different, assert themselves in a search for the singular and an attention to the things that surround them. To see the extraordinary in the ordinary, the artists use trompe-l'oeil, but also the change of scale, where the object becomes miniature.
Perhaps for this reason, the exhibition evokes in its scenography the world of tales and childhood: the proportions are distorted or go from the very large to the very small, while the distinction between real and fiction, between true and false is blurred in the simplicity of forms and play.
Louise Morin, Marina Antsiperova, Natalia Kudryavtseva
With artists :
Ambartsum Kabanyan, Anatole Tièche, Anna Dial, Daria Galeeva, Daria Krotova, Dmitry Bulnygin, Ekaterina Kameneva, Juliette Vivien, Karla Tobón Pumarada, Lentov, Lota Lota, Masha Egorova, Marusia Nizovtsova, Nadia Likhogrud, Paulina Siniatkina, Shuling Liu, Zina Isaeva, Zina Isupova
