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    THE ART OF CLAY

    Mar 31, 2020 5 minutes
    text Y-JEAN MUN-DELSALLE

    Johan Creten is known as the man who broke the boundaries separating contemporary art and clay sculpting. For the past 30 years, the Paris-based Flemish artist has been breaking all the rules with his poetic sculptures, that encourage viewers to delve below the surface to discover their hidden meanings. “The romantic thing about clay is it’s very direct,” Johan explains, “It is wet and malleable and you can put all your emotions in there.”

    Working with clay is therapeutic and soothing; it makes you calm down. I love the lushness of the material. Then I like the idea also of colour, the glaze, the crystals, the shininess. It’s so different from painting, plastics or computers,” he enthuses.

    A pioneer in the use of ceramics in contemporary art, he has been transforming clay into a

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