List of products by brand Elisabeth Raphaël
Born in 1958 in France.
EDUCATION
DEA d’études extrême-orientales (INALCO-Paris)
Doctorat d’histoire sur la Chine contemporaine (IEP-Paris)
2004-2006
Sculpture céramique à l’Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Bourges
Sculpteur céramiste professionnelle. Rencontre de Fance Franck et de Jacqueline Lerat
1991-1997
Atelier terre de Jérôme Bacharach, Paris
1989-2006
Chargée de recherche et d’enseignement sur la Chine contemporaine
EXHIBITIONS
2022
Amelie Maison d'Art, Paris
Galerie MABE ART, Genève
2021
Biennal of contemporary art, Jerusalem
2020
Amelie Maison d'Art, Paris
Roanne de Saint-Laurent, Paris
Abstract Project Gallery, Paris
2019
YIA Show, Paris
73th Salon des Realites Nouvelles, Paris
Espace Beaurepaire, Danielle Cohen, Paris
2018
Galerie Zeuxis, Paris
Wizame Gallery, Tel-Aviv Yaffo, Israël
72th Salon des Réalités Nouvelles, Paris
2017
Wizame Gallery, Tel-Aviv Yaffo, Israël
The 27th UBE Biennale, UBE International Sculpture Competition, Model Exhibition - UBE Tokiwa Museum, Une
Zeuxis Gallery, Paris
2016
70th Salon des Réalités Nouvelles, Paris
Galerie Zeuxis, Paris
2015
Exhibition " Yesterday and Now ", galerie 19PaulFort, Paris
Exhibition "Inversement", Abstract Project gallery, Paris
69th salon des Réalités Nouvelles, Paris
Sofa exhibition, Chicago
2014
"Sharing - Words", Paris
Solo exhibition "The Book", New-York
68th salon des Réalités Nouvelles, Paris
Salon des Réalités Nouvelles hors les murs, Beijing
2013
67th Salon des Réalités Nouvelles, Paris
17th Biennale of Châteauroux, France
2012
66th salon des Réalités Nouvelles, Paris
Solo exhibition "L'éloge de la caresse", Galerie accroTerre, Paris
22nd International Biennial of Vallauris
Grand prize of the city of Vallauris / ex-aequo
1st Autumn Salon in Israel, Tel-Aviv - Yaffo
Solo exhibition "The hospitality of the book" Galerie Caractères, Paris
2011
Personal exhibition "Le retour au livre" in homage to the poet
Edmond Jabès, Collection Gallery, Paris
2010
Contemporary ceramics, Besson Gallery, London
12th Ceramic Biennial of Andenne, Belgium
Presentation and exhibition in the framework of "Livres vivants" at the Museum of Art and History of Judaism, Paris
2009
"Young contemporary ceramics" at the Museum of St Quentin la Poterie
Exhibition "Sculptures", Le Lavoir, Clamart
European Festival of Saint Quentin la Poterie
2008
Personal exhibition "Croître en Rien", Prieuré d'Orsan, Maisonnais
2nd Paris Ceramic Festival
5th Contemporary Art Ceramic Show - Céramique 14 Paris
2007
1st Ceramic Festival of Paris
4th Salon of contemporary art ceramics - Céramique 14 Paris.
Prize of the jury Céramique 14, Paris
Selected for the international competition of contemporary ceramics, (FLICAM) China
Group exhibition at the Museum of Ceramic Art in Fuping, China
2006
First solo exhibition, "Sur les traces de l'infini" in honor of the poet Bruno Durocher, Galerie Caractères, Paris
Ceramic Biennial, Museum of Saint Quentin la Poterie
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Magnelli Museum, Vallauris
Livres d’artistes collection, Musées de Châteauroux
Yad-Vashem museum, Jérusalem
Elisabeth Raphael's sculptures are often created from the dazzling reading of books and the artistic commitment fostered by the thoughts of her masters: Emmanuel Lévinas, Edmond Jabès and Marc-Alain Ouaknin.
What shall I say about the dialogue that has been going on with books for several years? What shall I say of the poetic journey that leads to the materiality of shapes and the choice of materials? How can words describe the mysterious metamorphosis of text into form? Are books a source of inspiration, a friendly hand that leads to new questions and to challenge the limits of the possible? The questions are flying thick and fast, and there is no way of answering them. The artist can only give a few keys to his love relationship with the fertilizing speech that nurtures him.
The radicalism of an artist's commitment, when it is both an ethical and a poetic search, is generally rooted in a wound, which blooms into light.
The sculptor, like the painter and the poet, endeavours to push back the limits of language to say what cannot be said so as to shape the original word.
Being utterly hospitable, books suggest innumerable readings and infinite interpretations. They are written as they are read. "Each reading, each study is a renewal, an opening, a bursting of sentences, words and letters, until they fade away, so that perhaps a glimmer of light can emerge."
