Wonderland

Milton Keynes Arts Centre
Our Wonderland exhibition brings together the work of 18 local, national and international practitioners ranging from sculptural ceramics, pottery, printmaking, jewellery and fashion. Offering a wide selection of works at affordable prices, this is the perfect exhibition to find that all important Christmas present.

Sofie Boons | Jane Charles | Georgina Fowler | Eluned Glyn | Miia Godwin | Katy Jennings | Andrew Macdermott | Isobel Morris | Megumi Naitoh | Di Oliver | Consuelo Radclyffe | Malene Hartmann Rasmussen | Phiona Richards | Vicky Saragouda | Ester Svensson | Sophie Symes | Barbara Webster | Rosemary Wright

Wonderland runs until Tuesday 24th December on our regular business hours. We are open Monday to Saturday 10:00am to 4:00pm. Holidays hours begin December 25, 2013. Please contact us should you require any additional information at edith@miltonkeynesartscentre.org or call us on 01908 608 108.

Wonderland

IN CRYPTA

IN CRYPTA

Simbologia Sacra nella Scultura Contemporanea

dal 15 dicembre 2013 al 7 gennaio 2014

inaugurazione domenica 15 dicembre ore 10.00

Basilica dei Santi Bonifacio e Alessio all'Aventino

ROMA | Piazza Sant'Alessio n.23

OPERE IN CERAMICA DI

Yvonne Ekman, Evandro Gabrieli, Antonio Grieco, Rita Miranda, Riccardo Monachesi, Jasmine Pignatelli, Mara Van Wees.

A CURA DI Daniela Gallavotti Cavallero

IN CRYPTA

Annalisa Guerri CV's 6

CV: 5 Parole che descrivano le tue opere
AG: trasparenza, leggerezza, fragilità, corrosione, trasformazione.

CV: Che aspetto della tua personalità ti è più utile nel tuo lavoro?
AG: Il saper osservare.

CV: Qual'è il tuo pezzo in ceramica preferito?

AG: Il primo pezzo che ho creato, avevo 15 anni. E' una semplice mattonella con un pesce in rilievo ma la considero il simbolo della strada che ho scelto di percorrere.
 

CV: Da cosa trai ispirazione?
AN: La mia ispirazione viene principalmente dalle forme della natura ma anche dall'osservazione degli ambienti urbani e degli oggetti che mi circondano e dalla loro trasformazione nel tempo.

 

CV: Se potessi scegliere dove vivere/lavorare nel mondo, dove andresti?
AN: Ho scelto di vivere a Sulmona, una cittadina circondata dal Parco Nazionale della Majella, un posto incantevole, fonte inesauribile di ispirazione! Mi piace però poter essere libera di viaggiare e lavorare in diversi posti.
Per questo quando posso partecipo ai progetti "Artist in Residency" attivi in diversi centri internazionali.
Sono già stata in Danimarca, al Guldagergaard, International Ceramic Research Center e sarò a New Taipei City al Yingge Ceramic Art Museum a febbraio 2014.
Spero negli anni a venire di avere la possibilità di continuare a viaggiare e conoscere altri paesi e culture; credo questo sia il miglior modo per continuare a crescere in questo lavoro.

CV: Il tuo migliore e peggiore momento ceramico?

AG: Il migliore è quando, dopo aver passato settimane a sperimentare qualche nuova tecnica, finalmente ottengo un pezzo proprio come me lo ero immaginato.
Il peggiore è ogni volta che non ottengo quel risultato sperato; oppure quando accendo il forno e a metà cottura mi rendo conto di aver lasciato fuori il pezzo più importante!
http://www.annalisaguerri.com/ceramics/home.html

 

CV: Five words that describe your work
AG: Transparency, lightness, fragility, corrosion, transformation

CV: What aspect of your personality is more useful in your practise?
AG: The ability to observe

CV: What is your favourite ceramic piece of all times ?
AG: The first piece that I created when I was 15 yrs old. It is a simple tile with a fish relief, but I regard it as a symbol of the road I chose to travel

CV: Where do you get your inspiration from?
AG: My inspiration comes mostly from the shapes of nature but as also from urban landscape and objects that surround me and their transformation in time

CV: If you could choose where to live/work in the world, where would you go?
AN: I chose to live in Sulmona, a village surrounded by the Majella National Park, an enchanting place, an endless source of inspiration! I like to be free to travel and work in different places.
For that reason whenever I can I apply to residencies in different international centres.
I've been in Denmark at Guldagergaard International Ceramic Research Center and I am going to New Taipei City at Yingge Ceramic Art Museum in february 2014.
I hope in the future to still have the possibility to continue travelling and to know new places and cultures, I believe this is the best way to continue growing in this job
CV: Your best and worst ceramic moment
AG: The best is when after weeks of experimenting new techninques I finally obtain what I had imagined. The worst, every time I do not obtain that wished result, or when I turn on the kiln and half way through I realise that I left out the most important piece.!

http://www.annalisaguerri.com/ceramics/home.html

Annalisa Guerri CV's 6

Contemporary Ceramics Centre

Contemporary Ceramics Centre

Christmas is Here ! The Perfect Present

Thinking about the perfect present ? This is as good as it gets

Porcelain Jewelry workshop in Bali Indonesia !!!!

 

AUGUST 10 - 23, 2014 PORCELAIN JEWELRY
with Olivia Monti

Fuel your imagination and create unique ceramic jewelery in a setting of unsurpassed tropical beauty, amid artisans of world-renowned skill. Porcelain sculpture and jewelry artist, Olivia Monti Arduini, will guide participants in experimenting with a myriad of different techniques. From use of molds, pigments, paper-clay, slipcasting, inlay, neriage, burnishing, glazes, Olivia will demonstrate infusing clay with one's personal touch to create a wearable work of art.
Participants will be ushered through all the steps of making porcelain jewelry component parts.  The conclusion of the workshop will be in the assemblage: stringing, wiring, or otherwise combining pieces to create finished jewels.
And then, of course, the fashion show…
Open to any level of experience.

Tuition: US$ 1,900
*Tuition includes: general studio materials, firings, transport during workshop hours, excursions around Bali, Welcome dinner, and lunches at the studio.

**NOT included accommodation.
***Jewelry tool kit additional (separate) fee

 

Christmas is Here ! The Perfect Present

Arte Ceramica in Italia, Villa Necchi

L’esplorazione da parte del FAI dell’artigianato italiano di eccellenza prosegue con “Manualmente Ceramica”, una mostra e mercato di ceramiche che vedrà riuniti a Villa Necchi, sabato 30 novembre e domenica 1 Dicembre, una ventina di espositori accuratamente selezionati.

Per l’occasione, speciale vendita di pezzi unici della collezione di ceramiche ungheresi, prodotte tra gli anni ’50 e gli anni ’80 dei più noti designer dell’Est Europeo che il pittore Sam Havadtoy, creatore della Galleria 56 a Budapest, ha donato al FAI.

Sabato 30 novembre, in concomitanza con “Manualmente ceramica”, aprirà al pubblico la mostra “Arte Ceramica oggi in Italia”, a cura del noto artista e gallerista Jean Blanchaert . Fino a lunedì 6 gennaio 2014 negli spazi di Villa Necchi saranno esposte un centinaio di ceramiche d’autore, caratterizzate da stili, tecniche ed ispirazioni culturali differenti, tutte prodotte con eccezionale maestria, firmate dai più famosi maestri ceramisti, designer e artisti italiani, che si pone l’obiettivo di raccontare l’eccellenza che caratterizza oggi l’arte ceramica in Italia: da Antonia Campi ad Alessandro Mendini, da Bertozzi e Casoni a Franz Staehler e ancora Antonella Ravagli, Alfredo Gioventù, Paolo Anselmo, Bottega Gatti, Ugo La Pietra, Giacomo Alessi e tanti altri. Le opere in mostra saranno in vendita e, grazie alla generosità degli artisti, parte anche di questo ricavato verrà devoluto al FAI.

Arte Ceramica in Italia, Villa Necchi

Artist in Residence ECC

Artist in Residence

European Ceramic Context 2014 are organizing a series of Artist Residences in cooperation with partners on Bornholm and the rest of Denmark.
Selected artists will be given the time and space to develop a new project or body of work in ceramics. The residency provides four - six weeks access to studio facilities and basic materials. The residencies are offered to professional ceramic artists, who are expected to be proficient in the processes and techniques discussed in their residency application.
The period of the residency is granted to the named resident only, partners and other makers are not allowed to work in the studios during this time.
During the period of the residency it is incumbent on the resident to communicate, aid and assist his or her fellow resident in an open and friendly manner. This interaction and exchange is seen as being one of the benefits and challenges of the residence period.
Chosen residents must be prepared to make a public talk about their work and artistic career.

Residencies are offered at The Royal Danish Academy, School of Design Bornholm, Svanekegaarden, Bright Park Bornholm, Guldagergaard and Engelsholm Højskole.

Application: 
Applicants must have a bachelor degree or equivalent and min. 4 years of professional experience.
Applications must include:

• Description of your proposed project, max 1 A4 page, including techniques you plan to use.
• Current CV or resume
• Artist statement
• 10 images and separate image description sheet with dimensions, material, technique, year.
• 2 letters of recommendation

Application deadline and notification:
Deadline: 1. may 2014 / Notification 15 May 2014

All applications for all residencies must be send to:
European Ceramic Context 2014
Royal Danish Academy, School of Design, Bornholm
Stenbrudsvej 43
3730 Nexø
Denmark
Further information
Susanne Jøker Johnsen
info@europeanceramiccontext.com
tel: +45 4170 1980

Artist in Residence ECC

Valeria Nascimiento at Woolff Gallery

Following Valeria Nascimento's hugely successful solo shows in 2009 & 2011, the Woolff Gallery is delighted to present her long awaited third solo exhibition 'Elements'. 

 

'Elements' is another outstanding collection of artworks from Brazilian ceramic artist Valeria Nascimento, we hope that you can join us for the preview at the Woolff Gallery on:

 

Thursday 14th November from 6 to 9pm.  

 The exhibition will run from 15th November 2013 to 4th January 2014.

 

Please click the link below to open a pdf of the catalogue:

 

http://www.woolffgallery.co.uk/files/file/Valeria%20for%20website.pdf

Valeria Nascimiento at Woolff Gallery

Safia Hijos

"The one week only"

 

Lorsqu’un thème commun lie la céramique à la sérigraphie,…

cela donne naissance à une exposition aussi percutante que pertinente.

Entre esthétisme et réflexion intellectuelle la céramiste Safia Hijos vous laisse le choix, ironique ou lyrique?

Entre fantasme et récit la sérigraphiste Alix Le Grouyellec témoigne d'un Japon dévasté.

 

Exposition du 17/12/13 au 24/12/13
Heure d’ouverture du mardi au samedi de 14H00 à 18H00
Vernissage en présence des artistes le 17/12/13 de 18H00 à 20H00

 

 

Les Ateliers galerie de L'Ô  asbl
Rue de L'Eau, 56a _1190 Forest  Belgique  
Tel: +32.495.28.71.74 
Mail: info@galeriedelo.be
Site: http://www.galeriedelo.be

Safia Hijos

Torgiano Confluenze d'Arte

Torgiano Confluenze d'Arte

Corsi di Annalisa Guerri, Ceramic Courses in Rome

Eccovi alcune informazioni sui corsi della bravissima amica Annalisa Guerri

Corsi di Annalisa Guerri, Ceramic Courses in Rome

Open to Art

 

Open to Art

SHOZO MICHIKAWA 6-28 November Erskine, Hall & Coe is pleased to present a new exhibition by esteemed artist Shozo Michikawa comprising of 40 new works, demonstrating his ingenuity, dexterity and mastery of clay. The exhibition will be installed by Shozo Michikawa, and will include an Ikebana arrangement that will be composed by Ikebana master, Koho Wada. - - - Each one of these pots is a marriage of the material worked by Shozo Michikawa, and then shaped, coloured, twisted, sliced and pierced. Some have height and others stay earthborn. Some are touching, carrying an emotion, or attracting the hand and eye, and so asking to be lifted and closely viewed. Here time present and time past, have come together. An inheritance is clear, but so is freshness of the new. The East has come to the West – a  most serendipitous union. Nature is the source of Michikawa’s pots. As is natural he takes what is at hand, reworks it and creates a new generation. On show, are the children and grandchildren of his previous works. Here is the familiar, enlivened by his fresh inventions, his dancing wit and his deep reverence for the past. The colours, warmth-in-tone, seem placed without serious premeditation. And yet we know, they are as the potter decreed, subject always to nature herself. Michikawa claims little credit for himself. He finds inspiration without searching, as surely as the sun rises. Angus Stewart - - - Gallery opening hours during the exhibition: 10am-6pm, Monday to Saturday - - - Erskine, Hall & Coe Ltd, 15 Royal Arcade, 28 Old Bond Street, London W1S 4SP +44 (0) 20 7491 1706 | mail@erskinehallcoe.com | www.erskinehallcoe.com You have received this email as a result of signing up to the Erskine, Hall & Coe mailing list. If you wish to unsubscribe please click here.    Erskine, Hall & Coe 3 nov (1 giorno fa) Caricamento in corso...

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Shozo Michikawa

Adrian Villar Rojas at the Serpentine Gallery

Great show by Adrian Villar Rojas at The Serpentine London. Huge clay sculptures crackes before before our eyes.

"Kurt Cobain, kissing kittens and tray upon tray of apples ... artist Adrián Villar Rojas wants to recreate the whole world in clay – then watch it crumble before his eyes. Ahead of his forthcoming show, the first in the Serpentine's new Sackler Gallery, we get exclusive access to his workshop"
(The Guardian)
http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2013/sep/19/adrian-villar-rojas-planet-clay-exhibition#/?picture=417650068&index=1

The new Serpentine Sackler Gallery opens with an extraordinary site-specific installation by the young Argentinian artist Adrián Villar Rojas, in which the space has been re-imagined as a fossilised world of ruins and ancient monuments
From a sculpture of a mummified Kurt Cobain to a crumbling elephant, 33 year-old Villar Rojas combines pop culture, science fiction and quantum mechanics with the natural world to create a contemporary Pompeii. Fabricated almost entirely out of mud, clay and brick, this grey and dusty vision of the future offers a fantastical comment on the fragility of the world’s ecology.

http://www.serpentinegalleries.org/exhibitions-events/adri%C3%A1n-villar-rojas-today-we-reboot-planet
 

Adrian Villar Rojas at the Serpentine Gallery

Bev Bell-Hughes and Margareth O'Rorke

Bev Bell-Hughes and Margareth O'Rorke

Yoga and Ceramics in Bali

Yoga and Ceramics in Bali

British Ceramic Biennial

Back for a third time in 2013, Stoke-on-Trent’s British Ceramics Biennial will run for 6 weeks from 28 September – 10 November.  The festival will present work from the UK’s leading contemporary ceramic artists in a series of new exhibitions and special events across the city.
Following the success of the last Biennial in 2011, the festival will again take over the spectacular China Hall at the original Spode factory site in Stoke town.  In addition to the FRESH exhibition showcasing the best of the current crop of UK ceramics graduates, there will be a strong international flavour with work on display from Scandinavia.


Nao Matsunaga has been awarded the £10,000 British Ceramics Biennial AWARD in recognition of his exceptional creativity in contemporary ceramics.  He was presented with the prize on 18 October at an awards ceremony to celebrate the British Ceramics Biennial in Stoke-on-Trent, the home of the British ceramics industry.
The awards evening also celebrated the winner of BCB’s FRESH bursary, which was awarded to Cardiff Metropolitan University graduate Sarah Worgan for her installation-based work. 

British Ceramic Biennial

here we go again

I thought this blog was dying...well maybe not today !

here we go again

Jennifer Lee at EHC London

JENNIFER LEE

Exhibition Now Open
9 October - 1 November

Jennifer Lee's first London exhibition in five years is now open.
The exhibition comprises of 17 works and 5 drawings.

The private view was very well attended and had a great response. By the close of the evening the majority of the works had sold.

The exhibition is fully illustrated online here and continues until 1 November.

Jennifer Lee at EHC London

Akio Takamori

I don't know how I could have missed this !!! I am so sad... I even went to Ateliers de France, it was under my nose. :(

photos taken at Galerie Collection - 4 rue de Thorigny - 75003 Paris

 

Pour la 1e fois en France et jusqu'au 25 mai à la galerie Collection : le sculpteur céramique considéré comme le plus novateur de sa génération. www.galeriecollection.fr

Akio Takamori

Considered in the United States as the most innovative ceramic sculptor of his generation, Akio Takamori is presented in France for the first time.

This monographic exhibition, organised in partnership with the Barry Friedman Gallery in New York, presents 13 sculptures and seven recent works on paper or wood.
Steeped in the history of European art and ancient mythology, Akio Takamori transposes the canons of beauty in a Japanese-inspired aesthetic

Akio Takamori

One Million Bones

A very interesting and important Project in Washington D.C.

make a bone !

 

http://www.onemillionbones.org/the-bones/ 

One Million Bones

Cerco 2013 Zaragoza

CERCO, after twelve years and with the intention of continuing being a reference of the contemporary ceramics, it is invented, happening to be biennial and alternate in the official announcement of the fair as in the prize.

In 2013 CERCO announces the prize with new spirit and expositions, because it wants to give visibility to those projects and ideas that discover new ways of understanding the ceramics and therefore the creation. The activity of CERCO will center from May 9th to May 12th with an agenda full of exhibitions and presentations and like in previous editions they will take place in Zaragoza and later in Teruel.

CERCO are exhibitions, presentations, prize, meeting.

Presentation

CERCO, after twelve years and with the intention of continuing being a reference of the contemporary ceramics, it is invented, happening to be biennial and alternate in the official announcement of the fair as in the prize.

In 2013 CERCO announces the prize with new spirit and expositions, because it wants to give visibility to those projects and ideas that discover new ways of understanding the ceramics and therefore the creation. The activity of CERCO will center from May 9th to May 12th with an agenda full of exhibitions and presentations and like in previous editions they will take place in Zaragoza and later in Teruel.

Exhibitions 2013

Programación completa CERCO 2013
Centro de Artesanía de Aragón C/ Monasterio de Samos, s/n. Zaragoza (antiguo matadero). ...

Todd Shanafelt
Todd Shanafelt, artista estadounidense, compone sus trabajos a modo de collages cerámicos con elementos propios y otros presta...

Yuki Tanaka
Las obras de Tanaka que se presentan, muestran al completo los trabajos creados en 2005 durante su estancia en Galicia y Cataluña de ... 

 

http://www.cerco.es/pdf/triptico2013.pdf

 

http://www.cerco.es

Cerco 2013 Zaragoza

Claudi Casanovas Lluna Nova

Lluna Nova - an exhibition of fifteen new work by acclaimed Catalan artists Claudi Casanovas.
The exhibition explores ideas relating to the theme of darkness and rebirth. It will be fully illustrated online on the day of the opening.

http://www.erskinehallcoe.com/

here an interview with master Koie Ryoji, his involuntary teacher
http://www.e-yakimono.net/html/koie-ryoji-interview.html

Claudi Casanovas Lluna Nova

Faenza 's Prize 2013

58° Premio Faenza:

vincono la finlandese Paivi Rintaniemi

e il faentino Nero / Alessandro Neretti

 

Decretati i vincitori del Concorso Internazionale della Ceramica d’Arte Contemporanea – Premio Faenza alla sua 58esima edizione. Lo scorso 15 aprile la Giuria si è riunita e, tra circa un centinaio di finalisti provenienti da tutto il mondo, ha stabilito le sue preferenze. Le opere selezionate affrontano i linguaggi della contemporaneità e mostrano un’attenzione viva e partecipe ai temi dell’attualità.

Paivi Rintaniemi, Finlandia, opera Avis, 2012, material: high temperature condensed clay, fired in a temperature of 1250 °C.

Il Premio Faenza della sezione over 40 è stato assegnato all'artista finlandese, Paivi Ritaniemi, con l'opera Avis (2012) perchè “La purezza del lavoro intitolato Avis, esito felice di essenzialità e sofisticatezza, mette in evidenza la profondità e la maturità della ricerca dell’artista finlandese, la quale, ispirandosi alla forma primordiale del contenitore, ha raggiunto una sintesi quanto mai efficace tra fragilità e forza, tra forma e informe”.
The Faenza's prize for over 40's went to Finnish artist Paivi Ritaniemi for the work "Avis" reasons were "the purity of the work, successful combination of essentiality and sophistication, that highlights the profundity and the maturity of the artist's research. The artist inspired by the primordial shape of the container, had reached a very effective synthesis between fragility and strength, between the form and the non-form."

Nero, Alessandro Neretti,New Apostles, that is economical- structural landscape, 2012, glazed earthenware, stoneware, wood, black glaze

Il Premio Faenza della sezione under 40 è andato invece ad un faentino Nero / Alessandro Neretti con l'opera I nuovi Apostoli ovvero paesaggi ecnonomico-strutturali (2012) perchè “l’opera sviluppa il linguaggio della contemporaneità nella forma e nella poetica. L’abilità nel coniugare materiali disomogenei, unitamente alla capacità dell’artista di confrontarsi con i temi dell’attualità, offrono molteplici ed inedite chiavi di lettura di un’opera in cui diversi linguaggi e pratiche artistiche convivono felicemente e sottolineano la capacità dell’autore di esprimersi in tutta la sua maturità”.

Faenza's Prize for the under 40's went to italian Nero / Alessandro Neretti for the work I Nuovi Apostoli (New Apostles, i.e. the economical- structural landscape) " The work develops a contemporary language in its form and poetic. The ability to combine diverse materials toghether with the artist's ability to confront with current issues, offers numerous and new readings of a piece in which the diverse languages and artistic's practices co-habit happily and underline the capacity of the autor to express itself in full maturity "

3rd prize
Ljubica Jocic-Knezevic, Serbia, con l’opera Analysis and implementation of the global game plan (sez. under), 2012,  porcelain, black porcelain, original old wooden frames forneedlepoint, gilding on the frame


Ljubica Jocic-Knezevic, Serbia, Analysis

Faenza 's Prize 2013

Bertozzi & Casoni at museum Beelden aan Zee

Bertozzi & Casoni: Timeless

Bertozzi & Casoni combine socially critical and philosophical themes. Through their colour and material choices their sculptures verge on history. Bertozzi & Casoni developed a technique in the late nineties for creating large ceramic works. The colossal but fragile sculptures by the Italian artist duo are overpowering and prompt observers to contemplate life and death, nature and culture, art and craft.

Bertozzi & Casoni at museum Beelden aan Zee