Body & Soul, New York

Chris Antemann

Body & Soul

New International Ceramics

September 24, 2013 to March 2, 2014

Mad Museum NY

About the Exhibition

In recent years, the human figure has returned to center stage in the work of artists around the world. Body & Soul: New International Ceramics underscores the power of the figure to convey strong emotions, and also to the accessibility of the ceramic medium. Through clay the figure becomes the catalyst for addressing the emotional impact of contemporary pressures that confront our society today. Each work, inspired by a personal incident or symbolic tale, expresses a deep emotional identity, contrasting societal, political, and personal views on themes such as anxiety, bias, mortality and memory.
The exhibition will highlight approximately 25 international artists who came to clay as painters, draughtsmen, or sculptors. Many are being shown for the first time in the United States. The range and quality of the works will make this exhibition engaging and provocative, and will bring this special area of creativity into a much-deserved focus.

http://www.madmuseum.org/exhibition/body-soul# 


Exhibition highlights include:
Mounir Fatmi, (Morocco, b. 1970; lives in FR), Forget, 2010, an installation of several ceramic skulls wearing hard hats comments on the fragility of both body and brain, and the hard demands of physical labor and work.
Teresa Gironès, (SP, b. 1941), Victima [Victim] 2012, a poignant representation of a woman unable to speak out against her abuser; the raw treatment of the clay expresses the anger of the incident.
Michel Gouèry, (FR, b. 1959) Riri, Fifi, 2006, a sardonic pair of seated female bodies with no distinguishable facial features: empty vessels without identity, encased in a restrictive armor, and rendered powerless.
Elsa Sahal, (FR, b. 1975) Pieds Noirs/Black Feet, 2010, depicts the memory of bias and hostility by the French people to French immigrants from North Africa.
Kim Simonsson (Finland, b. 1974) Untitled, 2013, andCarrie II, 2009, eerie, dramatic, and forceful depictions of children, contrasting innocence with a sense of impending violence.

Read more about MAD to Present BODY & SOUL: NEW INTERNATIONAL CERAMICS, Begin. 9/24 - BWWVisual ArtsWorld by www.broadwayworld.com

Mounir Fatmi, (Morocco, b. 1970; lives in FR), Forget, 2010, an installation of several ceramic skulls wearing hard hats comments on the fragility of both body and brain, and the hard demands of physical labor and work.
Teresa Gironès, (SP, b. 1941), Victima [Victim] 2012, a poignant representation of a woman unable to speak out against her abuser; the raw treatment of the clay expresses the anger of the incident.
Michel Gouèry, (FR, b. 1959) Riri, Fifi, 2006, a sardonic pair of seated female bodies with no distinguishable facial features: empty vessels without identity, encased in a restrictive armor, and rendered powerless.
Elsa Sahal, (FR, b. 1975) Pieds Noirs/Black Feet, 2010, depicts the memory of bias and hostility by the French people to French immigrants from North Africa.
Kim Simonsson (Finland, b. 1974) Untitled, 2013, andCarrie II, 2009, eerie, dramatic, and forceful depictions of children, contrasting innocence with a sense of impending violence.

Read more about MAD to Present BODY & SOUL: NEW INTERNATIONAL CERAMICS, Begin. 9/24 - BWWVisual ArtsWorld by www.broadwayworld.com

http://www.artesmagazine.com/2013/10/museum-of-arts-and-design-n-y-with-body-soul-new-international-ceramics/

Body & Soul, New York

A Bit of Clay on the Skin

Evert Nijland

A Bit of Clay on the Skin: New Ceramic Jewelry
March 15 - September 4, 2011

2 Columbus Circle, New York, NY 10019

Peter Hogeboom

Ne avevo già parlato ma la mostra è così bella che non può stancare ! A Bit of Clay on the Skin: New Ceramic Jewelry è approdata al MAD di New York, organizzata dalla celebre Maison Bernardaud (casa di Limoges specializzata in porcellana) e curata dall'artista del gioiello Monika Brugger, questa esposizione mostra come la porcellana sia versatile e affascinante.

Tra i 18 artisti rappresentati ci sono dall'Olanda Peter Hoogeboom (un vero maestro, il suo sito è una meraviglia) Evert Nijland (uno tra i miei favoriti), Ted Noten, dalla Germania: Gésine Hackenberg, dalla Spagna: Marie Pendariès, e da Taiwan: Shu-Lin Wu.

Shu-Lin Wu
A Bit of Clay on the Skin: New Ceramic Jewelry
explores the manifold appeal of ceramics, especially porcelain, in jewelry. Organized by the Fondation d'Entreprise Bernardaud and curated by the renowned German-born goldsmith and jewelry artist Monika Brugger, the exhibition showcases the versatility and allure of the medium, which can be modeled or cast, used alone or with metal, wood, and stone, and vary in color and texture. Best known as the stuff of the luxurious and the mundane, of fine tableware and technical equipment, when used in jewelry, porcelain sparks the visual and physical sensations to become an object of desire.

The exhibition showcases the scope and ingenuity of the more than one hundred works on view and features the work of 18 cutting-edge jewelry artists, including creations by such notables as Peter Hoogeboom, Evert Nijland, Ted Noten (The Netherlands), Gésine Hackenberg (Germany), Marie Pendariès (Spain), and Shu-Lin Wu (Taiwan). While some make reference to traditional jewelry in materials and symbolism, others altogether redefine it in substance, form, and matter.
Marie Pendariès

A Bit of Clay on the Skin

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Traffic Patterns@ Greenwhich House Pottery

NY è una città meravigliosa e piena di cose interessanti, anche se pensavo che la ceramica aveesse più spazio. Ho battuto attentamente le strade di Manhattan e dintorni e sono rimasta un poco delusa. Vi farò comunque un resoconto delle mie visite. A parte la bellissima mostra di Akio Takamori da Barry Friedman, sono stata alla Greenwich House Pottery, bellissimo spazio nel cuore del village che quest'anno ha festeggiato i 100 anni. Giovedì sera inauguravano la mostra Traffic Patterns con opere di Kathy Erteman, e oltre alla bellezza delle opere ho molto apprezzato sia la piccola galleria con i pezzi in vendita, che le diverse sale dedicate ai corsi, lavorare lì deve essere un sogno. Sempre alla ricerca di ceramiche sono andata al MAD, il museo di arte e design che ha una collezione veramente straordinaria, ho finalmente avuto il picere di vedere dal vivo ciò che avevo ammirato solo in fotografia. Se volete farvi un'idea potete andare a vedere qui.
Un'amica mi aveva consigliato una visita al Noguchi Museum, e dato che amo molto le opere realizzate da questo artista sono corsa. Lo spazio, sebbene fuori da Manhattan è incredibilmente bello, silenzioso e magico come un tempio. Le opere esposte sono tantissime e incredibilmente moderne, ma purtroppo quelle realizzate in ceramica che conoscevo bene dalle monografie che ho a casa, non c'erano. Che peccato !
Purtroppo la mia vacanza è finita ma mi riprometto la prossima volta di espandere la mia visita a quei meravigliosi centri che in America mangiano, bevono e respirano "clay".

The pottery at night

NY is a great place full of interesting things to do, but I was hoping to find more space for contemporary ceramics. I walked up and down the streets of Manhattan and this is what I saw. As you know, I went to the beautiful exhibition Akio Takamori exhibition at Barry Friedman (one of the best things I saw), went to the opening of Traffic Patterns, show by Kathy Erteman at the Greenwich House Pottery. Incredible space in the heart of the village celebrating this year its 100 anniversary. I also went to the MAD, the Museum of Art and Design on Columbus Circle. The Museum has an incredible collection of ceramics that you can browse here. A friend had mention The Noguchi Museum in Queens, and I was happy to leave the island to experience the peace and modern beauty of Isamu Noguchi's art. Unfortunately there were none of those ceramics that I came to know from his monographs. Pity my holiday is over, but next time I'm going to expand my visit to those centre of ceramic excellence where you eat, drink, breath only clay!

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