Les reliques de l’écume – Racca Vammerisse

With an iconography largely drawn from the mysteries of the seabed, the artist deploys series of ceramic pieces imbued with a strange beauty. His polymorphic creations that integrate pearls, shells, tentacles or other pincers and corals evoke both the "rustic figulines" of Bernard Palissy in the Renaissance and the ornamental ceramics of Vallauris in the 19th century.

These sculptures constitute precious and disturbing biotopes, oscillating between familiar forms and imaginary creatures. Assaulting the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, these pieces invest the spaces of the palace: monumentality and sensuality resonate with the old collections and theatrically replay the original splendor of the Belle-Epoque villa that houses the museum. The exhibition thus creates a unique narrative, where the historical past and the contemporaneity of ceramic art intertwine to illuminate the collections from unusual and facetious angles while sublimating the timeless grandeur and luxuriant eclecticism of the places.

Trained at the Ecole Supérieure d'Arts Plastique, the Pavillon Bosio in Monaco, Racca Vammerisse now works between Nice and the Ateliers du Logoscope, a research and creation laboratory in the Principality of Monaco/Beausoleil, of which he is an active member. Since 2010, he has been building an artistic universe that mixes ceramic sculptures and visual poetry. His works have been presented in prestigious places such as the Musée de Valence, the Biennale internationale de Céramique de Vallauris (2016 and 2024), the Nouveau Musée National de Monaco (2020), the Musée de la Piscine de Roubaix (2017) and the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon (2012).

Committed to the world of contemporary art, he is represented by the Espace à Vendre gallery, which supports his unique approach. Each exhibition demonstrates his ability to create timeless works where ceramics become language, sublimating the material to evoke stories that are sometimes marvelous, sometimes disturbing, but always intensely narrative.