mountaincutters & Jean-Charles Miot

15.11.2020 - 15.12.2020

Project

The duo of artists mountaincutters create in situ sculptures. They draw their poetic inspiration from the earth, receptacle of historical and geological memories.
Within Fondation Martell, they developed a dialogue between their artistic practise and that of the glasslowerJean-Charles Miot to carry out their creative project.

Biographies

mountaincutters

mountaincutters is a duo of artists, that graduated from the École Supérieure d’Art et de Design de Marseille Méditerranée, in Marseille and is based in Brussels. It is a hybrid identity, focusing on site-specific art projects and sculptures that radically contaminate the space of the sites where he/she exhibits.

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Jean-Charles Miot
Jean-Charles Miot, glassblower, was born in Le Mans in 1988. After training in Cerfav in Vannes-le-Chatel, where he met Laetitia Andrighetto; the couple participated in their first joint exhibition at the Strasbourg glass Biennale. In 2012, they set up their own studio in Mont-de-Marsan before joining the Fondation d’entreprise Martell in 2017. Jean-Charles set up the glass blowing studio there where he collaborates and supports artists in residence programs.