Réjean Peytavin
A graduate of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs (Paris), he has also completed post-graduate programmes at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Nantes (Art and Enterprise) and ENSA Limoges (Kaolin, Art and Design in contemporary ceramics).
Her research focuses mainly on the ceramic medium, its recent and past production systems, and the cultural cross-fertilisation that takes place within it. By articulating this medium plastically, while subjecting it to other possibilities such as video, the artist puts into perspective the crossroads of globalised cultures and the transfer of knowledge through the migration of techniques.
In his installations, which focus on the material exploration of the links between form, its manufacture and its uses, Réjean Peytavin questions the medium in terms of what it contains, what it transmits, and what remains legible through time. In this way, his sculptures find their importance in manufacturing protocols and the empirical cross-fertilisation of technical cultures. He places this formal experimentation in the field of industry, which he links to the residences where he carries out his projects. He has worked with companies such as Geberit (sanitary ceramics, Limoges, France) and Gasser Ceramic (industrial tiles, Bardonnex, Switzerland), with researchers at the Institut Pasteur, and with start-ups such as 60circuits and ODIWI.
Réjean PEYTAVIN continues his research through artistic residencies, most recently at the CIAV (Centre International d'Art Verrier) Meisenthal, the CERCCO (HEAD - Geneva), the Maison du Patrimoine de Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche, and the Bruckner Foundation (Carouge, Switzerland). He has also been awarded the Aide Individuelle à la Création by the DRAC Île-de-France for SATURNISM, a fictional work that he co-directs with choreographer Alice Bertrand.
He has taken part in exhibitions at the Latvian National Museum of Art in Riga (Latvia), the Musée des Arts Asiatiques in Nice, the FRAC Limousin, the Trapholt Museum in Kolding (Denmark), the Musée Adrien Dubouché in Limoges and the Musée de Picardie in Amiens. His works are in the collection of the Maison du Patrimoine in Saint-Yrieix, the Musée du Verre et du Cristal in Meisenthal, La Piscine (Musée d'art et d'Industrie André Diligent) in Roubaix and the MUDAC (Lausanne, Switzerland).
