Born in 1949. Lives and works in Croix de Goas-Zu, Le Tréhou (northern Finistère)
@michel_legentil
TRAINING
Studied Modern Literature at the University of Brest (FR) in 1975; became a ceramicist and potter
EXHIBITIONS
2025 Espace ArtBausa, Crozon (FR) 2023 Galerie La Manufacture, La Rochelle (FR)
2022 (group exhibition) Contemporary French Ceramics, Museo del Cantir, Argentona (ES)
2017 *La réparation*, *Le Fil Rouge*, Roubaix (FR) 2016 *Finisterres*, Breton Departmental Museum, Quimper (FR)
2015 Resist Much, Obey Little, La Borne Ceramics Center (FR)
2010 Michel Butor and the Artists, Brest Museum of Fine Arts (FR)
«I have always felt that the boundaries between the various arts are porous,» he writes. Michel Le Gentil constantly intertwines ceramics with literature. His visual art extends the poetic vision underlying the text, without ever illustrating it, like a parallel exploration.
Read the full text in the 2026 exhibition catalog
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