Étienne Pottier presents his ceramic work—a gallery of warlike masks that stare us down with their empty gazes.
Étienne Pottier (born 1983, lives and works in Paris) is a photographer and printmaker. After getting his start in the independent graphic novel scene, he turned to photography, then returned to drawing by setting up a printmaking studio, and eventually discovered ceramics, which he has been passionately pursuing ever since.
Étienne Pottier evokes a dark and whimsical world, inspired by classical and contemporary artists such as Albrecht Dürer, Peter Doig, and
Damien Deroubaix, where dark romanticism, pagan spirituality, and a social interpretation of modernity—which seems to reenact the world's timeless attachment to symbols—intermingle: punk imagery rubs shoulders with bikers, weapons, dogs, and nudity.
