Ceramics Now Magazine - Nr. 2, May 2011
Ceramics Now is an online ceramics magazine that celebrates the creative field of ceramics around the world by featuring profiles, works and interviews with new and recognized ceramic artists. Our first printed issue will be published later this year, in november 2011.
This month we're presenting four amazing ceramic artist and their works plus the work of a passionate photographer from Denver, CO.
As you know, the newsletter is sectioned into four basic and two special categories, as follows:
Artist of the month: Carol Gouthro
Ceramic technique: Margrieta Jeltema
Recognized artist: Shane Porter
New artist: Wim Borst
+ Tumblr Community: Photographer Jonathan Vanderweit
+ About us: Metamorphosis exhibition
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Ceramics Now Magazine Team
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ARTIST OF THE MONTH, MAY 2011
I became something of a plant collector. This passion for plants also led me to look at close up photography of plants and botanical illustrations as well.
I am also drawn to certain shapes and forms that trigger memories, and I use vintage objects and toys as the source of many of my molded forms.
For example I use jello molds to make fluted forms for the bottom of my goblets and I use a toy jack form for the base of a small sculpture.
What motivates me is the continuing need to express myself and desire to explore my ideas. Having deadlines is also a motivating factor and the longer I do this ,it is the opportunity to put together a body of work that I can show and share that pushes me forward. Read the full interview.
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RECOGNIZED ARTIST
My work explores the role and function of the Vessel within ritual theory and practice. I am currently developing a new body of Vessels which are inspired by the practice of Corporal Mortification used in Orthodox Christian traditions. Corporal Mortification is the practice of inflicting pain on the body as a type of spiritual psychology which uses the ‘body to affect the mind’, punishing man for carnal desires and indulgences, therefore becoming closer to the divine.
This work is still in an early stage of development and I am beginning to create a series of porcelain paper clay Vessels which challenge the function and ergonomics of the ritual container. I am interested in juxtaposing materials in unusual ways which enable the viewer to question the various connotations which are deep rooted in society. I manipulate typography, clay and organic materials to create narratives and conversations across the work. Read the full interview.
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TUMBLR COMMUNITY
My work focuses on the exploration of the world around us with specific regard to the interaction between humans and the natural environment. This means finding areas where nature has begun to reclaim the world of people, which here in the US often happens in formerly industrial/manufacturing areas as well as at the fringes of cities and towns. I love finding where our maintenance crews haven’t caught up or which taken on a kind of serendipitous equilibrium between the forces of creation and ruin. Read the full interview.
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 CERAMIC TECHNIQUE
The technical skills with paper-thin ceramics have their origin in beliefs about the nature of art. Objects made by human beings belong to the realm of art when seen as aesthetically pleasing.
Seeing something as a work of art or looking at it are not the same. Looking has a beginning and end. Seeing however is an achievement – it has no beginning, no stretch of time, it is the realization that we are confronted with something different. The work of art is not confined in a cave of individuality. It participates in an essential way in our everyday communication. From the act of seeing emerges our ability to understand a message.
The beautiful object has an intention; the intention of sharing, of telling a story and exploring our world of imagination. Message, story, communication, these are the words which describe my previous occupation with writing, using paper, making books with etchings. I was held captured by these sheets of paper on which I could try to communicate with others. Read the full interview. |
NEW ARTIST
I am inspired by the abstract geometric forms in sculptural art work and architecture.
The inspiration is based on a systematic approach to design and execution of similar artists such as, among others, Ad Dekkers (NL), Jan Schoonhoven (NL), the architects HPBerlage (NL) and JJPOud (NL), including artists belonging to ‘the Style’ (Dutch art movement (1917-1931).
The objects refer to functional forms, such as vases and bowls, but they are never the starting point. The autonomous objects show how triangles, squares, circles and ovals are split and merged. I find the esthetic side and finishing of the work very important.
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ABOUT US
Last month we presented you sketches ( part I and part II) of our works. The Metamorphosis exhibition was held at "Romulus Ladea" Fine Arts Highschool's Exhibition Hall between April 28 and May 9, and will relocate this week at Cora Hypermarket in Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
Why metamorphosis? Because metamorphosis is itself the life of art.
Why suspended painting? Because we wanted a live exhibition, where the spectator is invited into a journey through images, not just as an act of contemplation but also as an act of reconstruction, pursuit and maybe recognition of yourself.
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