Jean-Nicolas Gérard: "The Potter's Potter" film about French slipware potter
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- This documentary follows French slipware potter Jean-Nicolas Gérard as he prepares for his 2013 exhibition at the Goldmark Gallery.
Jean-Nicolas describes himself as an artisan craftsman who, above all, wants his pottery to be used and enjoyed. His work ranges from small mugs, bowls, plates and dishes to large jars and press moulded platters. All are decorated with slip and many with sgraffito and finger marks. He takes the tradition of European slipware and infuses it with elements from modern painting, medieval earthenware and Japanese pottery. In the film we watch him throwing, glazing and decorating and explore the influences that nature and his surrounding landscape have on his pottery.
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Biography - Jean-Nicolas Gérard was born in Brazzaville (Congo) in 1954 and returned to France in 1961. He started studying ceramics in 1978 and was Jean Biagini's student at École des Beaux-Arts in Aix-en-Provence. He also trained with Claire Bogino. Often labelled the potters' potter Gerard's work has a spontaneity that so many strive for.
Gérard's work has now gained international acclaim and he has exhibited all over the world, including America, Australia, China and Japan. He is one of those rare potters who brings genuine life and gusto to contemporary slipware, investing the tradition of terre vernissée with a fresh and expressive energy unlike any other.
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I love these Goldmark films of my favorite potters. Well done.
Thanks for taking the time to write
What a beautifully simple life
Besides all the poetic things he said and showed, the best scene was the moment next to the almond tree. You could clearly see how he brought soul to his inanimate pieces by bringing the grotesque organic feel to them.
Thanks for producing this video.
You're welcome
Embracing the imperfection. Stunning.
Thank you!
I think I'm in love with the spontaneity and the way he works.
Maybe it could be said, contrived accidental
his process and work makes me so happy. energises me to get into my studio.
I love this❤ Art is not perfection,-art is soul!
He’s a true artist, Picasso of slipware pottery. Brilliant!
Brilliant!
Your work is great and life looks pleasant. Thanks for sharing this with us.
Очень душевный, слегка первобытный стиль. Симпатичный мастер). Красивые места, похожие на мой родной Крым.
wonderful, it is a long time since I had been so fascinated by someone´s pots!
merci pour ce film, quel talent! bonne continuation Monsieur Jean Nicolas Gérard!!!
Fantastic profile.
There are 1,000 potters who work like this and every one of them has a unique final product.
So interesting and relaxing. I could watch stuff like this all day long. Thank you.
Beautiful in every way. Thank you for making this documentary. Magnificent.
Wow such a wonderful video
Thank you so much
Please do an updated video of him! This is the best pottery video!
Brilliantly made documentary as always Alex and Jay! Beautiful work and process Jean-Nicolas, looking forward to working with you in Montana next month!
Absolutely love your work. 💞😇 Thank you for sharing 😇
You are so welcome
Wonderful. So inspiring, thank you.
Fantastic video
Thanks! 😃
Beautiful.
Love your pots and attitude to life..
Beautiful location in Provence..
Thanks for sharing..😊
I LIKED THIS GUY'S ATTITUDE.....GREAT JOB
Wunderbare Keramik ein schöner Film über einen Töpfer - Ich danke !!
My pots,compared with your slipware, seem to be too pure, clinical, antiseptic. I have said in an earlier comment that I admire the work you have done in slipware depicted in this film. I could lose myself in just being in your pottery and seeing your stuff coming out of the kiln. I have been making pottery myself for many decades but not as a living fortunately. I will keep an eye on your other films. Bon chance and take care ca va Peter Pots, Wellington New Zealand.
+Peter Palmer Do not beat yourself over it. There is nothing wrong with pots which seem pure, or even clinical. His approach here is his very own, and he somehow has managed to make his intentionally crude design work with his environment. To me, his works carries a sense of rustic character that is perfectly at home with the French country side.
Personally, I disagree with his statement that technique is not important. Looking at the works of other potters, I can see that technique is really important, but it really depends on what you're trying to achieve.
So if your design is clinical, perhaps, subconciously, you really are trying to achieve something else completely. I might be wrong, of course, please excuse my ramblings. Have a nice day :)
Love it. thankyou!
You are so welcome!
So good.
Thanks for your comment
My pleasure. Thank you for all the great artist docs you have posted. They are done very well.
beauty on the other side of beauty
Wow That garden feed! So Good! I love this artist and his work, also love so many of the Goldmark films! Cheers, Steve aka The Talking Fly
Excellent film. Artiste magnifique et un grand céramiste .
Fabulous!
Amo esta profunda labor eterna❤.
Amazing video.. what is that beautiful music running through it called? 😊
Thanks. The music was written and performed by our very own Jay Goldmark. He calls it 'theme for Jean-Nicolas'!
I want that lifestyle, so inspirational
Awesomeness
perfect! je suis de Prague)
inspiring
it is really good I like your creation, could we share with you, because in my country we have also but we did know how to sell it
Il est vraiment très agréable de voir votre travail qui tire beaucoup de l'art japonnais .Dans quel région de France vous êtes ?
Bonne continuation
Nicole
Mais non! Certes il avait travaillé au Japon mais, ses ceramiques est du style coréen traditional qui s’apelle ‘Onggi’
Ma non capisco...all inizio sulla ingobbio crudo cosa versa???
good!
Trovo che tu abbia la stessa frenesia di Pollock!?
muy buen artista jean nicolas
Sign me up! I want a studio in that town.
Great film.....not a fan of his vision...but helpful✨👍
Oh...and the south of France.....please just let me get there someday
e lindo magnifico (brasil)
merci
those hands say it all
Does he put on slip after bisquefiring? Usually it´s done before isn´t it?
That's how it is thought of usually. The recipe for the slip is different but no it can be done this way too. Sort of like a underglaze then but something that has a three dimensional quality. Also could be because his vessels have large flat areas that are tricky so you wouldnt want to dis tube that in the unfixed state with water.
it puts the slip on the pot.
Most slipware potters apply slip on leatherhard pots. This allows the slip to dry with the clay of the piece. It helps in so many ways. After they are dry, he decorates them. In the beginning when he is using the spoon to cut below the slip layer, called sgraffito, you can hear the dullness of the dry raw clay. A bisqued piece would have a harsher scratch sound. I'm not sure he even bisque fires, although probably. He might single fire everything. Goldmark would know that.
Looks like something that my kids brought home to me from school when they was seven or eight years old. Normally i would have to ask what it was and what it was for. They would then often reply that they didn't really know, but that the thing(s) could maybe be used as a plate or ashtray or something similar. Then they would usually ask back if i didn't think it was beautiful and really neat. Of course I would lie and say i thought it was really beautiful and well made. In my heart i would like the object(s), but not for its beauty, but because i would see it as gift of love from my children. But also because of their efforts to create something useful and beautiful.
nao entendo o que voce fala mas amei seu trabalho
Does the slip have lead in it?
it's just clay with extra water added. Only leaded if you want it to be..
I read in an older 90's book on contemporary slipware artists, and he had some recipes in there. His recipe i believe uses lead bisilicate, a safer form of lead. The dangers of lead aren't usually with the end product user, but instead with the potter who is using the lead in raw forms for recipes. And no, his slips are just clays with colorants like iron or copper, etc. His glaze recipe has the lead in it, if that's still his same recipe.
Qu'est ce que je donnerais pour etre votre disciple.
mercy.
13:51 Hahaha the dust hahahah
❤
Us too!
Ах, хорошо то как🤗
Con gratulation
Barro somos o barro que sobrou
The decaying ruins of the old and beautiful traditional potteries all over Europe highlights EU's ongoing war on traditional culture and folk arts. :-(
You're a ray of sunshine on a cloudy day. :/
After seeing that I think I could pass off my wobbly beginners pieces as art
😂 i know it was a joke (made 3 years ago) but not really. Many of us say this about many artists, but few of us are artists. Art is about so much more than one object of art (feeling, dedication, rejection, talent, trusting yourself, originality, trends, lobbying, connections, luck etc). So many things need to align for someone to become a paid artist. But don’t get me wrong, i’m rooting for you and your wobbly art 😂
SOBAD
OMG
Pupi siciliani
rofl lmfao lol tbh
i think jean nicolas put sufistication in japanese pottery.
Waooo
The comment section foolishly gushing over the 'emperor's new clothes'.
You are a troll that moves from one channel to the next cutting others down.
Я конечно дико извиняюсь, но такой корявой керамики я никогда не видел! И надеюсь что не увижу!
What a world we live in...where you can slap glaze on a wonky pot, scratch it with a fork, and call it art.
Wabi Sabi is natural through freedom of repetition not man made.
I find it all very contrived. As am old artisan they wouldnt waste their times doing half the thing Gerard is doing, and by trying to be something he is not, he is deminishing the old artisans. He could choose to be a modern ceramicist, and then we would accept as wasteful and indulgent his process whilst appreciating the end product. I would say "Be yourself" do not imitate others
An ill-executed attempt at wabi sabi. This man does not have the touch.