Stones and Earth 2007   Sunday-October 14, 2007- from 14:00h

	Irmgard List: she is working with the earth (clay) for more than thirty years. Her technique is particularly in the "free construction".  Their objects and sculptures to be like natural forms, and often show reminiscences of the symbolism of ancient artists.  All of her works are unique specimens, no subject is like another, similar to the infinite diversity in nature, particularly the Garrigue. This fascinating ancient landscape tamed and inspired Irmgard List: from kneadable and plastic earth using the archaic techniques of potters - these objects, resistant in any weather condition, as of the time, as the fire shapes them, without the artist intervenes.
	Therese Bébié Haeberli: The art therapist and educator in pursuing their artistic approach in more than three decades, studying the nature of the original basic elements: fire, earth, water and air. She finds in her artistic work, both a return to the sources, as well as a new energy for their daily professional work. She is fascinated by natural habitat Garrigue and their inspiration leads to the abstract-art converting the material in birds, living in the garrigue. Their sculptures are made of ceramics, marble, alabaster and soapstone by cuting, to work on and polished them.
	Catherine LEVEQUE: My favorite material is generally the concrete, and adaptable. The clay, porcelain, iron, wood, paper and sculptures disclose me their wealth and personality. I create a project according to the location, the context, the humans, the budget. I work in a team for museums, public spaces, exhibitions, inaugurated to me a new problem, which extended me and my rather lonely workshop and enrich my work. The interventions in school has led to the beautiful encounters. "To give a work of art an expression, reduce an expression of no other reason than to be, to remember a quote of Rene Char".
	Nanouk Anne Pham: I mostly create stoneware often heavily burned, sometimes unique china or stoneware pieces; all design techniques, burned at 1300 °; very visual motif, especially blue mat enamel of copper. I maintain loyal of the idea of the container , symbolic objects, which accompany us by the life, our meals, our ceremonies, our dead maybe...
	Claudine Dumur: I initially modelled clay, only, in an intuitive way... Then the stone, the resin, polystyrene, and found by different forms my concepts of the sculpture. The discovery of the Raku "returned" me on earth. I like the random interaction with fire, the transformation procedure of the material, the colors and the forms.. Thus figures are born, which try by the movement to express the impalpable.
	Jürgen Paqué: There is now more than about ten years that he finds daily his area in the Garrigue, on which he made more than hundred "works of art" created with an extraordinary character: he gave a number of formless stones, the wood of died trees, the forgotten vestiges of human civilization - just in the place where he found them - a new identity while arranging these objects obtaining finally abstract sculptures and installations. The result is a crowd of mythical, antiquated creatures which - with the eyes of the spectator - have an impression of timelessness, since they could occupy their place since centuries. A number of these oeuvres seem to be against each law of nature, in a state of absolute weightlessness, and the spectator is tempted to examine the forces which bind them and which support them. They are fragile objects, carefully balanced - and yet, sometimes they collapse under the influence of a strong mistral or of a curious spectator. But rather often the fall down, but the creatures are animated again, because Jürgen Paqué rearranges them, often in modified version.

Randoneé guidee, duration: 1:15h, Departure: Place du Platane 14:00h (Collorgues)