Gustave Tiffoche's vintage sandstone presentation dish

Very large hollow dish by gustave tiffoche (1930-2011) Almost invisible cooking fele. In 1961, tiffoche made his first approach to pottery at norbert pierlot in ratilly. That year the château gallery exhibited the great names of world ceramics: bernard leach, shoji hamada, raîja tuumi, a.cumella, daniel de montmollin, georges jouve, m. And y. Mohy, jean and jacqueline lerat, de vinck. He will get to know each other and befriend each other during his journey with several of them. Two years later, he set up his studio in guérande. He began producing unique parts in parallel with a production of utility parts and built his first wood-burning furnace in 1963. 1966 saw his first participation in a ceramics exhibition, at the hôtel de sens in paris1, and then at the maison de la culture in caen, "the contemporary potters". He organized his first solo exhibition of ceramics in 1968 at the "michel columb" gallery by marie-jo marot in nantes. On the walls, the paintings are by gaston chaissac2. The exhibitions followed from this period, throughout france and abroad: stuttgart in 1969, montreal in 1970, munich in 1971, faienza in 1972, dakar in 1984, saarlouis in 1994. At the same time, regular exhibitions at the "convergence" gallery in nantes allow us to follow the evolutions and questions of the painter. He created a monumental ceramic fountain for the iut of saint-nazaire in 1981. Other monumental sandstone works will follow in la roche-sur-yon, niort, melle, rennes, bouaye, ireste de nantes, etc. Between 1970 and 1985, many young ceramists came to learn or improve in their trade, or collaborated directly with him by working in his workshop. Among them are: jorgen hansen (denmark), miguel bosh (spain), micki (doherty) schoessingk (uk), jacques fleuret, pascal castagnet, odile maisonneuve, françoise dufayard (france), suzan.

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