During the Parcours de la céramique and the Biennale des Antiquaires, Lefebvre & Fils is pleased to announce Second Voyage, the second exhibition of work by the American artist Ray Barsante.

 

After a collaborative residence with the gallery, Second Voyage presents a series of works exploring the ceramic sculpture.

 

Ray Barsante stages the classical notions of sculpture in order to better transcend them.

 

The structure of the amphora serves as a starting point in this body of work. Barsante uses hints to the vase's functionality and decoration, to offer a different way of considering the object, treating the formal chema as means of questionning its presence sculpturally.

 

The thin ceramic walls freeze the tracks and the gestures of Ray Barsante. Creating, scratching, smoothing, the primal gestures of the sculptor are imprinted on the clay's surface and give the piece rhythm. If the forms and lines recall the antiquities, the color, both diaphanous and deep, shows an expressionnist pattern.

 

Ray Barsante plays with the asymmetry and irregulary form of his sculptures to reveal their beauty, both as individual objects and as part of a series to be real totems. 

 

Ray Barsante was born in Ventura in 1990 and raised in Santa Barbara, California. A graduate of Santa Barbara College, he studied Art and Art History at the University of Los Angeles. Currently, he lives and works in Los Angeles. 

 

From 18th to 22nd October 2017, during the fair, AAAH Paris Internationale, the gallery presents the work of Ray Barsante and Roger Herman.