Keramis
Keramis just opened its doors few days ago. This is an art space and culture, research and creation dedicated to ceramics in Belgium. It conserves, researches and develops the material and immaterial witnesses of the faience production company Boch La Louvière (1841-2009). This organization, directed by Ludovic Recchia, encourages the new generation of ceramists by exposing and ensuring understanding of their work. So the Centre shall ensure the transmission and preservation of knowledge of ceramics both to a specialized audience to a wider audience. This space also promotes culturally and touristically three old bottles ovens pottery Boch, priceless vestige of industrial archeology.
Pictures by Christine Wilvers
To mark its opening the Centre offers until 12 September the exhibition “On Fire. Fire Arts and Symbols”. It will highlight the idea that the ceramic is certainly an art of fire but besides that, it is also a pervasive element in our daily lives and our collective imagination. Indeed, visitors will see that the fire is evoked through examples from the cinema, literature and photography before unveiling works of today’s artists.
To visit the Centre Keramis: 1 Place Bottle Fours, La Louvière, Belgium.