Frank Baumgartner - Ceramist

For the benefit of an artistic formation, I practise my trade like a craftsman. The richness of the raw material, the mysteries of its transformation are my principal sources of inspiration. The experimentation being in the middle of my work, I choose according to circumstances’ a material, a technique of modelling, a decoration or a mode of cooking and it works until it revealed me all its secrecies.

For this series I chose to use the ground paper (Paper Clay1) for his lightness, his smoothness and the whims of his deformation. Containing chamoté black sandstone or of porcelain it allows the realization of sometimes rough parts, of primitive aspect, sometimes contemporary in their refinement and transparency