READER — Ceramic by Arnaud Quercy
Ceramic, 20.0×14.0×7.0cm
Arnaud Quercy, 2024 — France
The instant a reader disappears into a book, made permanent in clay.
Technical Specifications
- Medium: Ceramic
- Dimensions: 20.0×14.0×7.0cm
- Weight: 0.83 kg
- Created: 2024, France
- Certificate: 20240528-0078
- SKU: Arnaud Quercy Creations / AQC0582 / 2024
Display Information: Base/pedestal not included. Available on request.
- ✓ Original artwork, handcrafted by Arnaud Quercy
- ✓ Certificate of authenticity included
Arnaud Quercy is a Parisian artist working across painting, music, and sculpture. His practice is grounded in Ideamorphism — the principle that a work of art does not carry meaning, but triggers it. Each piece is engineered to diffract differently through each person who encounters it.
He creates and exhibits at Art Quam Anima, his gallery-atelier at 28 rue du Dragon, Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Paris.
About This Artwork
Reader explores the moment of complete absorption when a reader's consciousness merges entirely with the text. Part of the Untamed Creations collection, this ceramic sculpture captures that instant when awareness leaves the physical world and inhabits the written word.
The sculpture takes a crescent form rendered in matte unglazed ceramic with warm pale tones. The curved shape functions as both a figure bent over a book and the book itself, creating a dual reading that reflects the merging of reader and text. The unglazed surface provides a tactile quality that emphasizes the handmade nature of the piece.
The work measures twenty by fourteen by seven centimeters and weighs less than one kilogram, making it a compact contemporary sculpture. Created in France in 2024, the piece carries certificate of authenticity number 20240528-0078 and bears the artist's signature on the bottom. The sculpture has found appreciation internationally, with viewers from seven countries responding to its minimalist approach to representing the reading experience.
Where this work lives
Provenance
- Origin: Arnaud Quercy, Paris, France, 2024
- Acquired: 2025-05-11 — Private collection — USA during Permanent Collection 2025 – Resonance in Form
- Series: Dramatis Personae
- Collection: Untamed Creations
- Technique: Ceramic
Exhibitions 4
- Rencontres au Marché de la Création (2024-04-23 → 2024-12-31, Marché de la Création – Paris Montparnasse, Paris)
- Salon d'art contemporain – Metamorphose, Paris (2024-12-26 → 2025-01-05, Halle des Blancs Manteaux, Paris)
- Permanent Collection 2025 – Resonance in Form (2025-01-01 → 2025-12-31, arnaudquercy.art, Paris)
- Paris Studio Visit (2025-02-18 → 2025-02-18, Artist's Studio, Paris)
Other works in this series 2
Documented at 7
- Catalogue Raisonné — READER — Reader — Ceramic Sculpture on Absorption and the Creative Act of Reading — Arnaud Quercy (2024)
- Nanopublication — READER — Digital Image Documentation - aqc0582_img_full_1773x2363_webp
- Nanopublication — READER — Physical Specifications
- Nanopublication — READER — The Merging of Reader and Text
- Nanopublication — READER — Ideamorphism at the Point of Reception
- Nanopublication — READER — Formal Ambiguity as Conceptual Method
- Nanopublication — READER — Material Reduction and the Interiority of Reading
Thematic Elements 10
Testimonials
Genuine reactions from collectors and viewers around the world
Nadia B. was moved by the sculpture's minimalist delicacy, saying it captured the essence of reading perfectly — as a fellow reader, she felt it resonated deeply, and called it a masterpiece.
Apollonia S. admired the piece as beautiful modern artwork.
Kate J.S. found the sculpture truly beautiful.
Arlene L.O. described the work as beautiful art.
Michael S. praised the piece for its grace and beauty.
Olia K. said she adored the pure, curved form, calling it purity itself — adding that as someone demanding in art who loves Brancusi above all, the refined shapes reminded her of his work. "Bravo."
MichèleAndrée L. found the sculpture très élégant.
Irina Z. shared that she adores pieces like this.
Svjetlana R. felt the work was perfectly evoked, and that it invited the viewer into a kind of collaboration and reflection.
Timothy E.T. called the piece fantastic.
Renate M.L. reacted with "wow" — finding the sculpture spectacular.
