Thierry Lancelot Art - Kunst
Thierry Lancelot is a designer and artist who works primarily with ceramics to create unique narrative pieces. He works with both mass-market and antique found porcelain figurines, cutting up and or adding gold or sterling silver elements to them and repainting them, to create sculptures which depicts the male and female figure caught in sexual poses. But the sexual representation is not the main focus of the works. Indeed commonly known stereotypes of mass production in art, sexual representation of the puritan society or ironic and satirical portraits are representing in a format whose underlying meaning is all about the increase of the emotional response of the beholder.
Thierry Lancelot (b. 1967) holds a law degree from the Business Administration College of Ixelles in Belgium (1989) and although he spent all of his career as a Human Resources responsible, he developed an in-depth knowledge of Art History through personal interests. Having written several essays and exhibition catalogues on ceramic artists from the late 19th and early 20th century, his publication work highlighted some of the more unknown artists from these periods and gained recognition from art collectors and historians nationwide.
In recent years, he intensively studied the three-dimensional figure in Art and the philosophical relationship between Art & Perception. This led to an apprenticeship on porcelain figure making techniques at the Studio Porcepolis in Brussels where he mastered the basics of figurative porcelain making techniques (2013-2014). It seemed logical that his next endeavor would be the creation of one-off art pieces that embodies the quintessence of his art philosophy theories. Through these unique works using additional painting and 3D printing technology, Thierry Lancelot develops his own language that tends to ignite emotion through increased perception. Hence E=CP². His work is part of public and private collections worldwide.
So what's next? Through the creation and under the umbrella of his Art and Design Studio, TALK, Thierry Lancelot focuses not only on the creation of larger original works that combine ceramics and other materials but also blurring the canons between art and design, he set out to side-track his artistic endeavors in the area of contemporary interior design. This results in unique works and new limited editions bodies of works, characterized by high level craftsmanship, and combining ironic statements with traditional functionality.
“Emotion is what every artist hopes to initiate within the mind of the beholder. It can be achieved at several levels of perception. Intuitive perception constructs the primal, almost animal reaction to emotion. It is basic in the sense that it does not need any reference be it technical, social or philosophical in nature. It is the common "like - no like" approach to art and serves as the fundamental of the mechanical construction of the mind. Although it is based on a personal interpretation of the visual, often conditioned by social and moral determinisms, it serve a fundamental purpose and that is the construction of mental models that allows each individual to understand the world around them. This perception can be fine-tuned by technical knowledge or historical awareness. Another level of perception is the one that fundamentally helps to develop the mental model in what it needs in order to become true awareness. This purpose can only be achieved by understanding the hidden language of the artist’s work. This language serves as the breeding ground for increased emotional response. And although intuitive perception helps to foster the mechanics of the mind, one artist may choose to initiate a second level of perception by forcing the beholder to deconstruct and reconstruct again the mental model. It is when stopped in this unconscious back and forth mind travel that the emotion is ignited at an increased level. The emotion anchors the mental model into reality initiating mental patterns and builds consciousness. This newly created emotion relates not only to one self’s primal behavior but also to the unconscious construction of who we are as human being. In this mind constructive process, each individual will try to grasp the model as a personal understanding of the artist's language. But in essence it will be only one possibility among many. What links them all together is the emotion that is generated by the artwork itself. And the vehicles may vary. In my work, erotic and brutal interruption details are used to initiate these levels of perception creating the sought after emotion that builds the human conscience.”
