Frédérique Lucien's Body-Inspired Ceramics and Drawings Across France

Frédérique Lucien (born 1960) is the subject of multiple exhibitions across France in 2011, including shows in Paris, Caen, Vannes, and Brest. At Galerie Fournier in Paris, six porcelain pieces with colored enamel depict the contours of full lips. At Musée Zadkine, the series "Ligne muette" presents mouths symbolically sealed shut. Her 2003 work "Céramiques dégourdies" features pots with multiple ears, subverting the adage "deaf as a pot." Large charcoal drawings of body fragments and aluminum ex-votos that can be assembled or not are also on view. In Caen, the exhibition centers on "Îles" (2001), referencing Matisse's paper cutouts with layered, colored plant forms on tracing paper. The Musée des Beaux-Arts de Caen dedicates a room to her lithographs, linocuts, screenprints, and artist's books. The monograph "Introspectives" accompanies the shows, tracing her evolution since 1990.