3. Juni 2012 - New Ceramics

EVENTS / WORKSHOPS / EXHIBITIONS
Mimmo Paladino. The Great Ceramics - about one hundred works created by
Mimmo Paladino will be displayed in the great solo exhibition arranged at the International
Museum of Ceramics in Faenza from 29 april to 30 September 2012. The exhibition
“invades” all the museum spaces, involving the public directly. People can admire great
sculptures and powerful installations together with ceramics of small dimensions, which
testify to the accomplished and polyhedral personality of the artist. Paladino uses the
earth in its more primitive and less captivating shape, sometimes in a brutal way. The artist
shows fundamental works belonging to his production and some unedited pieces created
for the exhibition in Faenza, which testify to his cultural marriage with the town. The
exhibition is focused on the way of expressing art of this great personality belonging to
the tradition of Southern Italy, very symbolic and linked to epic narration. Paladino directly
managed the organization of the exhibition project, selecting meaningful works which retrace
all his poetical creation: painted sculptures looking like three-dimensional pictures, slabs hiding strongly emotional objects, potent great
disks and towers evoking the cyclopean strongholds of Mycenae. Mimmo Paladino. Le grandi ceramiche. Mic - Museo Internazionale delle
Ceramiche in Faenza, viale Baccarini 19, 48018 Faenza (Ra), Italy. Curator: Claudia Casali. info@micfaenza.org, www.micfaenza.org
“Gertraud Möhwald and her Circle at Burg
Giebichenstein in Halle” -
From 13 april – 5 November 2012, the Keramikmuseum
Berlin is presenting a special exhibition under the
title of Gertrud Möhwald and her Circle at Burg Giebichenstein
in Halle, with work by Gertraud Möhwald,
ute Brade, Yvonne Brückner, Karl Fulle, astrid Lucke,
Gerd Lucke, Martin Möhwald, Martin Neubert, Judith
Püschel, Renée Reichenbach, antje Scharfe and Egon
Wrobel. as students or teachers, they all have close ties
to the university of art and Design in Halle. Whether it
was ute Brade as a fellow student or Gerd Lucke as a
member of the workshop staff, or Renée Reichenbach
as a student and Yvonne Brückner as one of her second
generation students, or antje Scharfe as her successor
in a teaching post, they were all trained as artists at
the Burg Giebichenstein university in Halle and were
deeply influenced by the personality and work of the
great ceramic artist and sculptor from Halle, Gertraut
Möhwald. Keramik-Museum Berlin, Schustehrusstraße
13, D-10585 Berlin, Germany. Opening hours: Fr – Mo
1 – 5 p.m. Tel.: 030 321 23 22.
info@keramik-museum-berlin.de
www.keramik-museum-berlin.de
Mishaps –
Productions
faults and
what causes
them - an unusual
kind of exhibition
is being
shown at the
Hetjens Museum
in Düsseldorf until
10 June 2012.
under the title of
Mishaps, production
faults and what causes them are demonstrated. Normally,
museum visitors only get to see the best of the best,
everything else disappears shamefacedly into the stores
or at best the study collection. This collection of cracked,
stuck-together, collapsed vessels with glazes that have run
off, scorched surfaces, bloating and pinholes is thus all the
more instructive. In a minimum of space – this is a showcase
exhibition – visitors are informed of what great technical
and chemical knowledge is behind creating a perfect piece
of ceramic art. The exhibition runs until 10 June 2012 at the
Hetjens-Museum, Schulstraße 4, D-40213 Düsseldorf, Germany.
Further details on www.duesseldorf.de/hetjens.
2nd International Porcelain
Market in Klaffenbach 2012
- Once again, Klaffenbach Castle
near Chemnitz, showed itself to be
a forum for contemporary applied
art, when 33 studio artists from Germany,
the Netherlands, austria and
the Czech Republic and Japan assembled
there to meet 1,400 interested
visitors on 17 and 18 March for
the 2nd International Porcelain Market.
at the opening ceremony, the
Von Taube Prize 2012 was awarded.
Thanks to the generous support of
the renowned Berlin porcelain gallery
aRCaNuM, for the first time
a second prize could be presented.
It was shared equally by Christine
Salzwedel and ulrike Sandner (both
from Halle), and Willy van Bussel (the
Netherlands). The first prize went to
Susanne Petzold from Dresden, no photo Monika Jakobson
stranger to winning prizes. The wide range of pieces was largely aimed at
adding aesthetic highlights to everyday life. attentive viewers will have noticed
that light and shade lay close together. Due to the tightness of the race
for the top, due to artists like Jutta albert, Bärbel Thoelke, Gabriele Hain,
Juliane Herden, Karin Bohnacker and the two prizewinners Petzold and van
Bussel, the light predominated. The market is now to be an annual event
H.-P. Jakobson
Ucki Kossdorff, ceramic artist from austria, was invited in March to exhibit
her well-known stoneware and bronze sculptures at one of the most beautiful
galleries in the world, the agora Gallery, 530 West 25th Street, New York,
in the in vogue artists’ and gallery district of Chelsea. The opening was unbelievably
well attended, with visitors and journalists tirelessly asking questions
and discussing
finer points. This is a
degree of uninhibited
interest that the artist
has never experienced
in Europe. and
shortly afterwards,
a second invitation
followed, this time
to the amsterdam
Whitney Gallery, also
in Chelsea. She is
soon to have her own
agent in New York.
ucki@vienna.at
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