Grégoire Scalabre at Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire
Grégoire Scalabre, L’Ultime Métamorphose de Thétis (Ultimate transformation of Thetis), 2022, porcelain
The renaissance castle is also the annual host to the International Garden Festival (they were the first to discover Pierre Blanc and his vertical gardens). The exhibition displays three major works of the artist which include a monumental Ultimate transformation of Thetis, composed of 70.000 tiny ceramic pieces (qualifying for the Guinness Book of Records), an interstellar black Cignus made of 9000 ceramic elements and a white L’Onde (the Wave) an evocation of nature and its infinite complexity. The finesse of the ceramic creates a unique sensory depth whilst the frailty of the (central) object is in opposition to the great scale of the sculptures.
Grégoire was exhibited at the Venice Biennale in 2021 and at Art Basel in 2022. He also won the prestigious L’intelligence de la main (the Ingenuity of the Hand) award conferred by the Liliane Bettencourt Foundation.