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Bruno Dumont and Bernard Guerbadot at La Borne, Issoudun

exhibition · 2026-04-23

In April 2002, the mobile exhibition space La Borne, a repurposed construction container turned vitrine, hosted artists Bruno Dumont and Bernard Guerbadot in Issoudun, France. Managed by the collective Le Pays où le ciel est toujours bleu (founded 1999), La Borne operates as a formal constraint for artists since September 2000. Dumont presented a 1.10-meter-long ceramic line, glazed to resemble chrome, created in 1995 at the Maison de la faïence de Desvres. Guerbadot displayed two porcelain forms from 2000, made in Limoges, with platinum glaze and a square opening revealing layers of plaster. The works, though distinct, share material origins and explore autonomy, measurement, and fragmentary presence within the confined vitrine. The exhibition ran from April 6 to April 29, 2002.

Key facts

  • Exhibition at La Borne, Issoudun, France, April 6–29, 2002
  • La Borne is a mobile container vitrine used as a formal constraint for artists since September 2000
  • Managed by artist collective Le Pays où le ciel est toujours bleu (founded 1999)
  • Bruno Dumont showed a 1.10 m ceramic line from 1995, made at Maison de la faïence de Desvres
  • Bernard Guerbadot exhibited two porcelain forms from 2000, made in Limoges, with platinum glaze
  • Works share material origins and explore spatial autonomy
  • Collective also runs Ateliers Oulan-Bator in Orléans
  • Text by Cédric Loire

Entities

Artists

  • Bruno Dumont
  • Bernard Guerbadot
  • Cédric Loire

Institutions

  • Le Pays où le ciel est toujours bleu
  • Ateliers Oulan-Bator
  • Maison de la faïence de Desvres
  • La Borne

Locations

  • Issoudun
  • France
  • Orléans
  • Desvres
  • Limoges

Sources