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Iconocrash 5 | 11.5” x 9.75” x 5.25”
In 2003, Laurent Craste received the prestigious Winifred Shantz Award for Ceramists, awarded by the Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery. He has been a regular exhibitor at Chicago’s Sculpture Objects and Functional art (SOFA) show and has also participated in the Biennale Nationale du Canada and the Biennale Internationale de Châteauroux in France. In 2005, he was a finalist in the Carouge international competition. His research project developed as part of his Masters in Fine Arts has been awarded the Bourse d’Excellence Universitaire de l’UQAM. .
LAURENT CRASTE
Of French origin, Laurent Craste has been living and working in Montreal for the past 25 years. His career has involved both a studio practice in contemporary ceramics and the teaching of ceramics at the college level.
Just recently he was awarded the prestigious Jean-Marie Gauvreau Award and one of Laurent’s works was chosen for the cover of the recently published compendium “New Age of Ceramics”, which is the new standard work on contemporary ceramic art.
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Cover: Iconocraste au bat VI | 42.5” x 15” x 30 ”
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Défigurement II | 28.25” x 8” x 6.75”
DĂŠfigurement II | (Detail)
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La Chute (The Fall) | Vase 6” x 15.5” x 8.25”
La Chute (The Fall) | Column 12.5” x 11.5” x 5.25”
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Grand Vase Montcalm | 22” x 12.5” x 10”
Grand Vase Montcalm (Side view)
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Dépouille aux fleurs «Bleu de Delft» | 15.75” x 15.25”
Petit Vase Du Barry | 14” x 6.75” x 9”
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Adolf Loos’ Wet Dream V | 14.75” x 19.75” x 14.5”
Adolf Loos’ Wet Dream V | (side view)
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Ornithovase II | 20” x 8.25” x 10”
Camée I | 16” x 16” x 5”
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Représailles II | 20.25” x 11.5” x 5”
Carcasse IV | 26” x 9.5” x 8.5”
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Trophée V | 19.5” x 13” x 7.75”
century European porcelain manufacturers and use these models as a basis for research on the status of the collectibles, by subjecting them to a practice of deconstruction and violent alteration of their formal structures, or by contaminating their traditional decorations through a subversive process of subject substitution. These corruptions, formal and iconographic, as they reassess the historical, social, political and aesthetic values of the decorative object, also reveal an intense and ambiguous relationship with it.” -Laurent Craste Laurent Craste’s works are on display in many public and private collections such as the permanent
BIOGRAPHY
“I regard the inventory of original models from the main 18th and 19th
collection of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the Claridge collection, the Public collection of the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade of Canada, The Cirque du Soleil collection, the Musée de Châteauroux (France) and the Musée des maîtres et artisans du Québec permanent collections, the City of Montreal and the Loto-Quebec collections among others.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2016: 2016: 2015: 2013: 2013: 2012 : 2010: 2010: 2009: 2008: 2007: 2007:
«Épuration», Art Gallery of Burlington, Burlington, Ontario «Jeux de massacre», Ubisoft head office, Montreal «Shards of Vanity», Tom Thomson Art Gallery, Owen Sound, Ontario «Trans/pose/forme/figure», Montreal Museum of Fine Arts – Lab Design «Laurent Craste», Division Gallery, Montreal «Iconocraste», Cirque du Soleil head office, Montreal Solo exhibition at the Toronto International Art Fair (TIAF) with the SAS gallery Solo exhibition at the Pulse Art Fair in New-York city with the SAS gallery «Esthétique du saccage» («The Esthetics of Ransacking»), SAS gallery, Montreal. «Les Vases Communicants» («The Communicating Vessels»), CIRCA exhibition center, Montreal. «Les Dievx dv Stade» («The Gods of the Stadium»), video intervention, Écomusée du Fier Monde, Montreal. «Assiette de Christs» («Christs’ Plate»), video intervention,Musée des maîtres et artisans du Québec, Montreal.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2015: 2015: 2015: 2015: 2014:
«Mutations. Les métiers d’art au Québec depuis 1930», Musée de l’Amérique francophone (Musées de la civilisation complex), Quebec. Permanent exhibition from 2015 to 2020. «Montreal Creative», ARTVstudio, Place des Arts, Montreal. MTL@PARIS, Les docks, Cité de la Mode et du Design, Paris, France «Sensory Stories: An Exhibition of New Narrative Experiences», Museum of the Moving Image, NewYork, USA. Chromatic Festival: Parade, interactive work created in collaboration with Departement Studio, Chalet de la Montagne, Montreal. «Porcelain: breaking traditions», Division Gallery, Toronto (sur invitation) «Regards sur l’art contemporain» - selection of works from the Cirque du Soleil collection; Villeray Saint Michel Parc Extension Art Center, Montreal
This biography is abbreviated. Download the comprehensive biography and view the entire exhibiton with more available works here:
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