Arkhè I Sculpture By Lea Munsch

Arkhè I sculpture by Lea MunschSigned and numbered on 5Dimensions: W 38 x 30 x H 46 cmMaterials: StonewareEach piece is unique with its own personality and marks. Dimensions vary.ARKHÈ is a collection of sculptures imagined as a landscape of abstract shapes. Over the course of time and following my imagination, new shapes will complete the collection with a continuous numbering I,II,III,IV,V...Léa Munsch explores its potentiality with an approach led by instinct and curiosity. She draws from nature to produce primarily unglazed pieces that reveal the inherent qualities of texture and color of their materials. From her studio, an ever- evolving cast of ageless forms emerges, sculptures born at the crossroads where art and architecture meet. The primordial link between Earth and clay infuses her practice. An ancient and instinctive bond that we can sense the presence in her work. She is interested in the cultures imagined by ancient civilizations long before the 0 of our era and prehistoric art for the strength of the link between art, life and nature. Like an archeological work, blurring the lines of time, her sculptures seem to come from an ancient future. Her practice also relies a lot onto instinct to give shape to an abstract, architectural, raw, textured and natural world. Léa Munsch lives and works in Lorraine, in eastern France, where she's taken over a space in a former factory perched on a river at the heart of a forest.