artist/ Arnauld Le Calvé

France

Born in 1977 in Dreux, Arnauld Le Calvé is an instinctive sculptor who creates a dialogue between two contrasting materials: clay—which demands patience and attentiveness—and glass—which requires speed and precision. Trained in glassworking through an apprenticeship between 2003 and 2006, he went on to work as an assistant at the CIRVA in Marseille, where he contributed to Ettore Sottsass’s *Kachinas*—his first encounter with the totemic figure.

In 2011, he opened his own glassblowing studio near Toulouse and subsequently taught himself ceramics. He then developed a unique technique: blowing hot glass directly into grogged stoneware, creating translucent bubbles within the raw material.