Dalloun / France
I was born sixty years ago in Le Berry, in the middle of France, country of goat cheese andSancerre vine, a few kilometers away from a small potters’ village. In La Borne we produced, since the XV century, a useful pottery from wood firing stoneware. The ceramic was not a familial tradition, I discovered it at 18 years old when my girlfriend took me to visit her father’s pottery studio, there I was fascinated by gesture of craftmen turners.I left the studio by taking 20 kg of clay on my moped, and without the lady … I falled in love with clay and I wanted to learn. In La Borne, the traditional pottery was decreasing but a new generation of potters and artists breathed a new dynamism aroud stoneware and wood firing kilns in the village. I made my first learning in this atmosphere with Jean LINARD. Next I lived few years of meetings, exchanges and travels, an initiation to firings at low-temperature during a symposium with Paul SOLDNER … The second revelation happened during the beginning of 90’s in front of Pierre BAYLE’s master-piece. He worked with terra sigillata slips inspired by Greco-Roman ceramic. My first personnal expériences were disappointing until I met, few years later, Tjok DESSAUVAGE. During a workshop, he allowed me to get the technical bases. For 15 years, I’m focusing exclusively on terra sigillata, I’m making my slips with collected wild clays, I’m associating them and explore their infinite variations on my bowls. New horizons have been opening with education works, international exhibitions with Chawan Expo and travels in India, in Korea and now in Taiwan. Dalloun
當代陶藝再現「赭色粘土陶藝」令人驚豔之美－承襲自古希臘羅馬，是尊重土地的製陶術。
「赭色黏土泥釉」是從自然採集的原生黏土，緩慢篩出最細緻的顆粒製成。經數次浸漬將它施用於尚未燒製的素陶上，再以柔布擦磨光亮。950至1070度的溫度燒製，使類似釉面的外層達到幾近微米程度的玻璃化，如是，碗有如包覆了一層防水外衣，如絲綢般發亮而柔和，令人忍不住想撫摸它。赭色黏土泥釉提供給色彩的愛好者的就是這滋養大地的鐵分子那無限的細微層次變化。
法國陶藝家Dalloun打破傳統，致力新的實驗：重疊不同產地、不同黏土的泥釉，賦予陶碗來自柴火的歡欣，氧化及還原歷程交替，使作品覆上一層煙霧繚繞的效果，有時尚且進行第二次燒製……。豐富變化的土壤就此甦醒：變紅、轉白，翻騰成令人驚奇的色彩，因喜悅而震顫、在爐火深處變身。出窯火時，就像打開禮物般驚喜：可能是絲般的質地、前所未見的色彩層次、星星滿布的夜空或是珍奇樹木的紋理。
Dalloun為了表現火與土的魔法：我創造一個又一個，無數的碗，為的就是感受它們在掌心的觸感、見到茶在裏頭展現光影的愉悅。
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