This double-walled, glazed volcano-shaped vase, looking as if it "emerged from the earth's magma", is representative of the way Claude Champy tirelessly seeks to "reenact the great telluric movements of the universe". From the village of potiers and sculptors of La Borne, where a whole generation of ceramicists was trained, Claude Champy retains a fascination for direct-flame firing. In his studio in Plaisir (Yvelines), he gradually devoted himself to more sculptural, voluminous, organic, and overflowing forms, somewhere between volcanoes, cliffs, and tectonic plates. Claude Champy (born in 1944) played a key role in the movement to renew ceramic sculpture that emerged after the Second World War and continued into the 1980s-1990s in France.