If some of us have already been able to meet the little beings of the People of the Moss of the sculptor Kim Simonsson in Lille, Lyon or Roubaix, it is clear that his oversized young elves escaped from an invented forest do not often make the trip. in Paris. It was without counting on this colorful exhibition dedicated to the big names in contemporary ceramics. The Espace Monte-Cristo plunges us into the marvelous world of the visual artist with a unique and spectacular installation of his imaginary country while twelve of his green characters observe a five-meter giant stretched out on the ground... Many other treasures are to be discovered here, such as the sulphurous Columns by Johan Creten, precursor of the revival of contemporary ceramics, or this little frog in enamelled earthenware by one of the greatest Portuguese artists. , Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro, but covered a hundred years later with crochet lace by the amazing Joana Vasconcelos.

Plural and committed, this exhibition is as much an opportunity for Takuro Kuwata to dust off an ancestral art with his puffy creations as it is an opportunity for Suzanne Husky to denounce the hypocrisy of marketing discourse in satirical and militant works. Did someone say ceramic is outdated?