One of Adrien Chevalley\u2019s studio wall is crawling with ceramic life: plants, snakes, birds, worms and crayfish in a bas-relief commissioned by a Swiss museum. There\u2019s something rigid about the composition, an element of control contradicting its fluidity, but the violence it contains reveals itself more readily in a separate set of tall free-standing flowers. Produced in the extruder, equal in diameter, their stems borrow some individuality from small leaves or nodes that make them even more restraint. They are crowned by a single flower or fruit, large and abundant, their freedom in awkward tension with the industrial stems. Capturing the intense unease caused by human domination over nature, Chevalley also suggest a future reconciliation. High against another wall is a large bug, clad in some kind of space suite and helmet. Confusingly, it only becomes a fellow creature when it appears as truly alien \u2013 or a saint.<\/p>\n
Chevalley employed a variety of building techniques while in residence \u2014 including extruding, hand and slab-building. Through explorations of EKWC\u2019s glaze library, he became interested in celedon and ash-based glazes and, so, pursued reduction firing. His wall-hanging and floor-sitting sculptures were often assembled from multiple, interlocking and highly detailed parts \u2014 and the dolapix slip added to his tile works provided a fluidity and natural-ness to the figures and forms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":63195,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false},"class_list":["post-62495","kunstenaar","type-kunstenaar","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","countries-switzerland","disciplines-visual-artist"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n