Artist, teacher and curator, Frédéric Bauchet has headed the ceramics studio at the Villa Arson since 2001.
Artist, teacher and curator, Frédéric Bauchet has headed the ceramics studio at the Villa Arson since 2001. His artistic work questions the history, the political, the poetic and the phenomenological dimensions of ceramics, and draws on sound, screen printing and performance. He has completed numerous residencies at the Manufacture nationale de Sèvres. Artist, teacher and curator, head of the ceramics studio at the Villa Arson since 2001. From his arrival, Frédéric Bauchet initiated a teaching of ceramics closely tied to the stakes of contemporary creation. He has helped to broaden the range of technical possibilities while building bridges between the ceramics studio and the other studio practices. In his view, the presence of artists in residence at the Villa Arson is a major complement to his teaching. He is keen to prioritise encounter and exchange, and to support each invited artist. He is himself regularly invited to run workshops in France and abroad. He has actively worked to forge links between national and international schools of art that have a ceramics studio. He also works through the ECART network (European Ceramic Art & Research Team), since 2008. Projects are currently being developed with universities in Japan and the United States. Through his artistic work, Frédéric Bauchet constantly questions the historical, political, poetic and phenomenological components of ceramics. During his numerous art residencies at the Manufacture nationale de Sèvres, an exceptional centre of expertise and creation, his conceptual approach to the medium was enriched through contact with the techniques and forms specific to ceramics, while remaining very attentive to new technical and technological advances. As in his teaching, Frédéric Bauchet’s artistic work draws on other media: sound, screen printing, performance.