The book was published for the exhibition Daniel Pontoreau: Before the Landscape at Keramis, La Louvière (Belgium) which ran from 11 February to 20 August 2023. Pontoreau thinks of the sculptural act as a manual raising and mixing of natural elements, keeping in mind that human beings can only find their truth if their action manages to combine with elementary strengths.
This is a praxis that tends to recall the original importance of what we call the ‘artistic act’, namely to perceive our surroundings based less on scientific rationality than on our ability to change our view and sensibility regarding our environment. In this, Pontoreau’s is a process of correspondence, rather than interaction. His aim is not to impose an already determined form, but to keep looking for a correspondence with the
