Null Awen PRIGENT, born 1976
Stele in red sandstone and chamotte clay, engraved …
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Awen PRIGENT, born 1976 Stele in red sandstone and chamotte clay, engraved in the mass with mirettes and ébauchoirs. Iron oxide patina to highlight the relief and white enameled dots. Assembled in two parts glued together at the center, on a brushed galva base. Signed in the center and countersigned below. Height 130 - Diam. at base 31 - Diam. at tip 12 cm - Dim. base 45 x 45 cm Representation of different Breton artistic periods: megalithic art at the base with representations of the Gavrinis cairn, in the center, Armorican Celtic art, at the top, modern and contemporary art with Bigouden embroidery and Seiz Breur motifs. --- Awen PRIGENT, born 1976 Awen Prigent has been working as a ceramic potter for 20 years in Belle Isle en Terre, in the Trégor region. This passion, like a disci pline of life, has led him to a quest for balance in form and the pursuit of beauty, largely inspired by nature and Breton culture, both of which are imbued in him. The two sets from the Gwenn ha du collection he is presenting as part of Ar Seiz Avel are rich in his diverse inspirations. They include a slender pitcher with cups, and a tea set whose motifs are directly borrowed from Brittany and its art: triskèle and fern for one, and a cross motif for the other. He reinterprets these signs in an "art deco" style, with a purified spirit and soft lines for the shape of the pieces, with a black and white contrast that reinforces the graphic parts. reinforce the graphic parts. For the event, he also created a large stele retracing the highlights of Brittany's art history. At its base, we find the motifs of megalithic culture with the undulating engravings of the Gavrinis cairn, in the center the Armorican Celtic period, then the modern period with Bigouden and Seiz Breur motifs, at the top the contemporary period and its organic moldings.

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Awen PRIGENT, born 1976 Stele in red sandstone and chamotte clay, engraved in the mass with mirettes and ébauchoirs. Iron oxide patina to highlight the relief and white enameled dots. Assembled in two parts glued together at the center, on a brushed galva base. Signed in the center and countersigned below. Height 130 - Diam. at base 31 - Diam. at tip 12 cm - Dim. base 45 x 45 cm Representation of different Breton artistic periods: megalithic art at the base with representations of the Gavrinis cairn, in the center, Armorican Celtic art, at the top, modern and contemporary art with Bigouden embroidery and Seiz Breur motifs. --- Awen PRIGENT, born 1976 Awen Prigent has been working as a ceramic potter for 20 years in Belle Isle en Terre, in the Trégor region. This passion, like a disci pline of life, has led him to a quest for balance in form and the pursuit of beauty, largely inspired by nature and Breton culture, both of which are imbued in him. The two sets from the Gwenn ha du collection he is presenting as part of Ar Seiz Avel are rich in his diverse inspirations. They include a slender pitcher with cups, and a tea set whose motifs are directly borrowed from Brittany and its art: triskèle and fern for one, and a cross motif for the other. He reinterprets these signs in an "art deco" style, with a purified spirit and soft lines for the shape of the pieces, with a black and white contrast that reinforces the graphic parts. reinforce the graphic parts. For the event, he also created a large stele retracing the highlights of Brittany's art history. At its base, we find the motifs of megalithic culture with the undulating engravings of the Gavrinis cairn, in the center the Armorican Celtic period, then the modern period with Bigouden and Seiz Breur motifs, at the top the contemporary period and its organic moldings.

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