3. Juni 2012 - New Ceramics

NEWS
INFORMaTION / EXHIBITIONS / EVENTS
Daniela Schmeiser is the new director of the art school, the Wiener Kunstschule in Vienna. Dr Daniela
Schmeiser took over the Kunstschule at the beginning of 2012. after the Viennese adult education
organisation, the Volkshochschule split away from the Wiener Kunstschule with its arts courses, Daniela
Schmeiser was appointed head of the Kunstschule. She was born in Styria and studied philosophy at
the university of Vienna, where she took her doctorate in 1990. She is an artist, writer and academic:
She regularly exhibits small art projects, has published three novels and has been teaching at the
Kunstschule since 1997. Schmeiser has been responsible for PR at the school since 2008. The Wiener
Kunstschule is a training and continuing education institution for fine and applied art, offering four-year
degree courses in animation and comics, graphic design, printmaking, ceramics and product design,
painting and process-orientated art forms, design and space as well as interdisciplinary studies. Wiener
Kunstschule, Nobilegasse 23-25, 1150 Wien, austria. www.kunstschule.at
Sculptural ceramics in delicate colours by Verena Meier - until 6 May 2012.
Showcase exhibition at Keramikmuseum Staufen. a ceramic artist who rarely exhibits
because her teaching at the Bern School of Visual arts completely absorbs her energy.
Her latest work (photo right) is on show at the Keramikmuseum Staufen until 6 May.
Her delicate, strangely familiar porcelain sculptures are reminiscent of seed pods and
the pistils of flowers, and yet they never merely copy nature. They are captivating in
their special sense of symmetry, their seductive smoothness and their delicate colour.
Silky pastel shades seem to anticipate the colours of flowers. But at the same time,
these forms also seem to have something technical about them, demonstrating as they
do a certain constructive technique. The ambiguity of organic and technical aspects
constitutes the attraction of these pieces. The starting point is the perfect thrown vessel,
either open or closed, from which the artist develops a form with ridges, indentations
and bulges, using an axisymmetric division of the form. She has a preference for
swelling thrown forms, which repeatedly take shape following nature’s principle of growth. The breadth of variation seems to know
no bounds. The stained porcelain body, to which a small quantity of paper is added, gets its silky gloss by burnishing when leatherhard
and is fired to 900°C in oxidation. Keramikmuseum Staufen, Wettelbrunnerstraße 3, 79219 Staufen, Germany.
”TIME - TIME OUT“ - Exhibition at the Porzellanikon
in Hohenberg until 4 November 2012. Hours do not
strike for a happy man. Twenty-four Meissen clocks at
the Porzellanikon Hohenberg. Some people are said
not to have a watch or a clock. Others collect clocks as
an investment. For others again their wristwatch is the
ultimate status symbol. It seems long ago that clocks
were modern instruments to measure time, and in
their artistic form, they were objects of philosophical
contemplation, evidence of a civilised society and the
stimulus for subtle reflection and cultivated discourse.
Not the face and the mechanism: it was the nature of
time that was in focus here. and also humankind’s
yearning to dissect or even stop time, to grasp and to
overcome it. and if 24 clocks from the Meissen Porzellanmanufaktur
are on show at the Porzellanikon in
Hohenberg an der Eger, it is for more than to provide proof of the greatest craftsmanship
and lavish attention to detail. This exhibition, which was first shown in
Saxony, with the title Time – Time Out puts some very profound questions: about
the meaning of time (measured in human terms), transience and the meaning of
life, and about the units with which a day, a year, a life are measured; also about
pastimes and amusements, moments of happiness and transition, of eternity.
Scarcely any of the splendid pieces measuring up to half a metre in height gets by
without allegorical figures or metaphors. Porzellanikon Hohenberg, Schirndinger
Straße 48, D-95691 Hohenberg a. d. Eger, Germany. Tel +49 (0) 92 33.77 22-11,
fax +49 (0) 92 33.77 22-18.
dpm@porzellanikon.org www.porzellanikon.org
11th Lecturers’ Tour of
the IKKG - On Thursday,
12 July 2012, the 11th Lecturers’
Tour (akademischer
Rundgang) of the Institute
of Ceramics and Glass arts
(IKKG) will be taking place
at the Cera Tech Center,
Rheinstraße 60a, D-56203
Höhr-Grenzhausen. The
most important work by all of the students at the IKKG
in the summer term 2012 is going on show. The Institute
stands for fine art using the traditional materials of
ceramics and glass. In objects and installations, painting,
photography and graphic art, the young artists’
approach to material and society is reflected. The mentality
of various nationalities is subtly linked to a youthful
joy in experimentation and contemporary concepts
to create an exhibition that perhaps would not be expected
in the Westerwald region. This year, the IKKG
is celebrating its 25th anniversary. Parallel to the 11th
Lecturers’ Tour, further exhibitions of the Institute are
on show at the same time: the anniversary exhibition,
Material Thinking, at the Keramikmuseum Westerwald
and at the Museum Ludwig in Koblenz as well as the
graduates’ exhibition at b-05 in Montabaur.
www.fh-koblenz.de/kunst
Fiorenza Pancino - Italian artist, prolific and complex. after the international events where she took part in 2011, she was selected
for the latest Gyeonggi International Ceramix Biennale 2011 (South Korea) and at
the exhibition Printemps des Potiers (Bandol, Côte d'azur, France) in the Ravaisou
Gallery, for an exhibition of Italian contemporary ceramics. Now, in her hometown
of Faenza, she is going to present an important new work: a large majolica panel,
28 metres, entitled "Trecentosettantacinque / Three Hundred and Seventy-Five"
(photo left) commissioned by the BCC bank, which will open its new and refurbished
headquarters during the week of culture, on 21 and 22 april 2012.
www.fpancino.it
6 NEW CERAMICS MaY / JuNE 2012