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

Ceramic Festival

INTERNATIONAL CERAMICS FESTIVAL 2013

FRI 28 – SUN 30 JUNE 2013

Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Mid Wales, UK

www.internationalceramicsfestival.org 

keiko masumoto

The 2013 International Ceramics Festival, the UK’s leading festival of ceramics, will take place at the Aberystwyth Arts Centre over the weekend of Friday 28 – Sunday 20 June 2013.

Internationally renowned ceramicists and potters from all over the world will be travelling to the beautiful coastal surroundings of Aberystwyth to take part in a jam-packed weekend of special exhibitions, artist-led talks, practical demonstrations, lectures and films. The artists’ workspaces will also be open to the public and there will be the chance to buy work from the leading artists.

This year promises to be a stellar line up for the festival, with artists travelling from as far as USA, Korea, China, Spain, Poland and New Zealand. Participating artists demonstrating their work include American artist Beth Cavener Stichter, whose provocative and emotionally charged animal sculptures turn the traditional use of ceramics on its head; one of the world’s foremost porcelain ceramicists, Takeshi Yasuda, whose beautiful, wheel thrown pots are currently being exhibited at the Fitzwilliam Museum's exhibition: 'China’s White Gold: Contemporary porcelain from Jingdezhen', and Doug Fitch, one of the UK’s leading slipware potters.

beth cavener stichter

2013 also marks new partnership between the International Ceramics Festival and the V&A.   Keiko Masumoto, who is the current Toshiba Japanese Ceramics Resident at the V&A in London, known for her delicate hand-building and intricate painting skills of the traditional Japanese style, will be visiting the festival and demonstrating her ceramic techniques, and also showing how she is using V&A collections to inform her skilled contemporary works.

Keiko Masumoto will be demonstrating the ceramic techniques used in her Motif series to create sculptural work inspired by the pattern and shapes of historical ceramics. Masumoto, who is known for her delicate hand-building and intricate painting skills of the traditional Japanese style, was born and grew up in Tatsuno City, Japan. She studied Ceramic Art at BA and MA level at Kyoto City University of Art where she became especially interested bringing together traditional Japanese ceramic craft practice with fine art concepts. She has exhibited in numerous exhibitions in Kyoto, Tokyo, Kobe and internationally in London and Seoul. Keiko exhibited at the Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art with a solo show developed for the Touch and Sense series, a hugely popular annual exhibition of sensual gallery experiences for blind and partially sighted people. Masumoto currently teaches ceramics at Kobe Design University, and has previously taught at the Ceramic Studio in Fumonsha, Kyoto.

 

Ceramic Festival

Laurent Dufour

 

Le geste spontané, au graphisme tantôt percutant tantôt innocent du céramiste

Laurent Dufour suscite l’émotion, l’interrogation, la remise en question…

Fasciné, on ne peut que se laisser porter par le graphisme narratif de ses cubes ou plonger dans la candeur des regards de ses personnages.
Très vite, trop vite on lâche prise,…la force physique qu’elle dégage et la virtuosité « récit-graphique» ouvrent une faille émotionnelle à laquelle on ne peut résister.


Laurent Dufour

Du 25/04 au 18/05 aux Ateliers galerie de L'Ô
ouvert le jeudi de 17H00 à 20H00
vendredi et samedi de 14H00 à 18H00 et sur rdv
www.galeriedelo.be

Laurent Dufour

Learning Ceramics at MIC Faenza

IMPARANDO LA CERAMICA AL MIC – CORSI 2013

 New courses at prestigious MIC Faenza 

LE FORME DELLA PORCELLANA.

Dal 24 al 29 giugno 2013

IL TERZO FUOCO AD ALTA E BASSA TEMPERATURA.

31 agosto – 1 settembre 2013.

RIVESTIMENTI VETROSI: FORMULAZIONI DI SMALTI E VETRINE.

7 settembre 2013

FAENZE SILICEE E BLU EGIZIANO.

8 settembre 2013.

Scadenza per le iscrizioni:

Corso “Le forme della porcellana”: 15 maggio 2013. Per gli altri corsi: 8 giugno 2013

Imparando la ceramica al MIC è un progetto condiviso di Mirco Denicolò, Anna Lega, Massimo Piani e Marco Tadolini. 

Info:

www.micfaenza.org/didattica/imparando-ceramica-mic

annalega@micfaenza.org

Learning Ceramics at MIC Faenza

when in Rome...Out of this world

Galleria “Il Laboratorio”
Via del moro, 49 00153-Roma


















Ultima delle mostre aperte a Roma durante le vacanze pasquali, un'altra bella sorpresa.
Leena Knuuttila e Sabine Pagliarulo mettono in scena una visione quasi onirica della Natura,
lontano dalle contaminazioni della vita quotidiana, in un mix creativo da “respirare” per nutrire
l’anima.

Third and last exposition that was on in Rome during Easter. Another good surprise.

when in Rome...Out of this world

When in Rome..., The Lab

Second visit was devoted to beautiful gallery space Le 5 Lune in the heart of the city. Impressive Teste di Moro di Tiziana Rivoni and Seeds by Jasmine Pignatelli.

 
THE LAB | MATERIA E PROGETTO, dal 16 al 23 marzo 2013 - Le 5 Lune / Sinopia Galleria. 

Artists: A3 Paesaggio (Berni, Ducoli, Fabriani), Angelo Aligia, Nino Caruso, Francesca Cataldi, Antonio Grieco, Riccardo Monachesi, Jasmine Pignatelli, Tiziana Rivoni, Yosuke Taki.

When in Rome..., The Lab

When in Rome...,Japanese Ceramists of the Premio Faenza

I spent my Easter holidays in Rome and was pleasently surprised. There were at least three exhibitions I wanted to see.
The Istituto di Cultura Giapponese (Japanese Cultural Centre in Rome) hosted great pieces by japanese ceramicists from the Premio Faenza. It was a great chance to see many pieces that I knew from photographs and to admire the ones I already knew.

Isamu Miura (premiato nel 1970),Yasuo Hayashi (Premio Faenza 1972), Miwa Ryōsaku (Kyusetsu XII)(1977), Takako Araki (1979),Kensaku Uke (1979), Aki Matsui Toshio (Premio Faenza 1982), Sueharu Fukami (Premio Faenza 1985),Eiko Kishi (1999), Kazuhito Nagasawa (1999), Jun Nishida (Premio Faenza 2003), Nobuyuki Ogawa(2003 e 2005), Tomoko Kawakami (2005), Kenichi Harayama (2005), Akio Niisato (2005), Tomonari Kato(2007, Premio Faenza ex aequo 2009),Kazumasu Futamura (2009), Junko Shimomura (2009),Yoshinori Akazawa (2009), Shigeki Hayashi (Premio Faenza ex aequo 2011), Eri Dewa (Premio Faenzaex aequo 2011), Tomoko Sakumoto (2011).
Have to say that it was impressive to see such great pieces together. I really like Sakumoto's stripy bowls, made with a beautiful tecnique.
here are some photos:

 

When in Rome...,Japanese Ceramists of the Premio Faenza

Circe

New and interesting project opens in Milan

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

La galleria Jerome Zodo Contemporary è lieta presentare Circe creazioni in ceramica e sortilegio in  realtà aumentata, a cura di Alessandro Turci.

La mostra inaugura martedì 9 Aprile 2013 alle ore 18.00 presso la project room dello spazio di via Lambro 7 a Milano.

 

Jerome Zodo Contemporary Gallery is proud to present Circe, creations in ceramic and enchantment in increased reality, curated by Alessandro Turci.

The exhibition will be inaugurated on Tuesday, 9th April 2013, at 6.00 pm, at the Project Room of the space in Via Lambro 7, Milan.

 

***more info:http://www.jerome-zodo.com/pr.php

***FOLLOW THE PROJECT @ http://circefrancescoardini.tumblr.com/

 

FRANCESCO ARDINI

// artista di ceramica contemporanea

 

We are trapped between the virtual and reality in a technological enchantment that, like the spell
cast by Circe, transforms us into what we really are. The domestic environment represented by
furnishings in white ceramic reminds us of our provenance from a reassuring known world in which
we live and interact. We are not in the presence of metaphors or symbols but common objects
consumed by a bulimic obsession, with the same maniacal ease with which we appropriate their
image. Tablets and i-phones are our present-day technological prosthetics, they amplify our
perception via a portal of infinite information and possibility. The white plate “Incanto”
(Enchantment) hanging on the wall, does not really have any decorations but virtual and ever-
changing combinations that the user composes with colourful flowers and butterflies visible in a
phantasmagorical vortex through the tablet. It is an ironic consideration of how outdated classical
decoration of ceramic work can be, above all, in relationship to the exasperated pace of
technological progress. “Offerta” (Offering) is just as sacred a tribute as that offered to Circe: a pure
white blaze of fruit and i-phones, also linked to the food that gives us nourishment, resting on a tablet
in golden ceramic like a votive tray. Three hundred plates are at the centre of the “Convivio”
(Banquet), where Circe delighted in her works of sorcery changing her guests into various animals
depending on their nature. Here, the remains of the banquet are randomly heaped, witness to just as
many mutations, heirs to a decadent fascination, by now abandoned to a viral and virtual mutation
that leaves no other path than that of a new and rethought interpretation. Resting or suspended
between two ambiguous realities, the viral proliferations light up threateningly of synthetic blue as do
some animal or plant species in nature to foresee danger and at the same time the fatal evident
attraction. Statically positioned in the theca of “Megaron” as verifiable phases of a natural and
inevitable process between the uncontaminated purity of the white objects up to their decomposing
and being utterly overwhelmed. The fulcrum of the phenomenon, determining focus of stability, is
without any further multimedia possibilities, motionless it rises like a simulacrum of the change that
has taken place. Protected by a theca just like a find of archaeology of art, it is open to being
examined in detail and to an attentive consideration that will be able to provoke interest and respect
in a painful, as much as inevitable, metamorphosis.

 

Tra virtuale e reale restiamo intrappolati in un incanto tecnologico che come il sortilegio di Circe ci
tramuta in ciò che veramente siamo. L’ambiente domestico rappresentato da suppellettili in ceramica
bianca ci ricorda la nostra provenienza dal rassicurante mondo conosciuto in cui viviamo e
interagiamo. Non siamo in presenza né di metafore né di simboli ma di comuni oggetti consumati
con ossessione bulimica, con la stessa maniacale facilità con cui ci appropriamo della loro
immagine. Tablet ed i-phone sono le nostre attuali protesi tecnologiche, amplificano le nostre
percezioni tramite un portale di infinite informazioni e possibilità. Il piatto bianco “Incanto” appeso
alla parete non ha in realtà decori ma virtuali e sempre diverse combinazioni che il fruitore comporrà
tra fiori e farfalle colorate visibili in un vortice fantasmagorico attraverso il tablet. Ironica
considerazione di quanto desueta possa essere la classica decorazione del manufatto in ceramica
soprattutto in rapporto all’esasperata velocità del progresso tecnologico. “Offerta” è tributo
altrettanto sacro come quello dedicato a Circe: candido tripudio di frutti e i-phone anch’essi
accomunati al cibo di cui ci nutriamo, poggiati su un tablet in ceramica dorata come un vassoio
votivo. Trecento piatti sono al centro del Convivio luogo in cui Circe si compiaceva dei suoi malefici
mutando gli ospiti in animali diversi a seconda del carattere di ciascuno. Qui i resti del banchetto
sono impilati alla rinfusa testimoni di altrettante mutazioni, eredi di un decadente fascino ormai
abbandonato ad una mutazione virale e virtuale che non lascia altra via se non quella di una nuova e
ripensata interpretazione. Poggiate o sospese tra due ambigue realtà le proliferazioni virali si
accendono minacciose di un blu sintetico com’è nella natura di alcune specie animali o vegetali a
presagire il pericolo ed al contempo la fatale conclamata attrazione. Staticamente riposte nella teca
del “Megaron” come fasi riscontrabili di un processo naturale ed inevitabile tra la purezza
incontaminata degli oggetti bianchi sino alla decomposizione e totale sopraffazione. Il fulcro del
fenomeno, focus determinante di stabilità è privo di ulteriori possibilità multimediali inerte si erge a
simulacro dell’avvenuto cambiamento. Protetto da una teca come reperto di archeologia dell’arte si
lascia esaminare nel dettaglio ad un’attenta considerazione che saprà suscitare interesse e rispetto in
una dolorosa quanto inevitabile metamorfosi.

Circe

Contemporary Japanese Ceramics in Rome

La ceramica giapponese contemporanea del MIC di Faenza in trasferta a Roma

Dewa Eri

Il Museo Internazionale delle Ceramiche espone all'IstitutoGiapponese di Cultura una selezione di 40 opere premiate al "Concorso della Ceramica d’Arte contemporanea - Premio Faenza" dal 1964.

Dal 26 marzo al 25 maggio una quarantina di pezzi realizzati da artisti giapponesi dagli anni ’60 ad oggi e appartenenti alla collezione del Museo Internazionale delle Ceramiche in Faenza saranno esposti a Roma all'Istituto Giapponese di Cultura in Italia in una mostra dal titolo "Ceramica giapponese in Italia: il Premio Faenza. Opere dalle Collezioni del Museo Internazionale delle Ceramiche in Faenza” organizzata per celebrare il 50° anniversario della fondazione dell’Istituto.

Inaugurazione il 26 marzo con conferenza a cura di Claudia Casali, direttrice del Museo Internazionale delle Ceramiche in Faenza.

Fino al 25 maggio.

Contemporary Japanese Ceramics in Rome

From Pottery to Plastic, Tolfa

Event for ceramics in Tolfa (Italy) 2013: From pottery to “plastic”
 
 
























Cultural Association “Chirone” and Laboratorio Boschivo (Pirjo Eronen and Pietro Matarese) are organizing in collaboration with Municipality of Tolfa and Centro Studi Italo-Norvegese in Tolfa a ceramic event called From pottery to “plastic” at the museum of Tolfa 25.5.-23.6. 2013 which includes an exhibition, conferences and workshops. We have invited to participate this event more than 20 ceramists, restorers of ceramics, experts, organisations, cultural operators from Italy, Norway and Finland. The conferences are hold on Saturday and on Sunday (25.5. and 26.5.), the opening ceremony will be on Saturday 25^th at 6 p.m. Workshops are organized during the weekends on June; ceramic for children 8.6./9.6., paperclay workshop held by Professor Rebecca Hutchinson from University of Massachusetts United Sates 8.6./9.6. and raku workshop 15.6./16.6./22.6. Our intend is to create a bridge between the tradition and the modern ceramic, have dialogue with ceramic artists from the North and the South and share experiences. It will be also an opportunity to reflect about the future of ceramic art; how have we arrived from the pottery to the plastic? Tolfa will be a “meeting point”.

Evento per le ceramica in Tolfa 2013: From pottery to “plastic” (Dalla ceramica alla “plastica”)
 
Con la collaborazione dell’ Associazione “Chirone”, Laboratorio Boschivo, Comune di Tolfa e Centro Studi Italo-Norvegese si terrà un evento per la ceramica nel periodo di maggio - giugno 2013 (25.5.-23.6.2013) nel Museo di Tolfa. Abbiamo invitati a partecipare in questo evento più di 20 ceramisti, restauratori, operatori culturali, esperti e appassionati di ceramica dall’ Italia, da Finlandia e da Norvegia. Si organizza una mostra di ceramica contemporanea (durata un mese) che viene inaugurata 25. maggio ore 18.00, conferenze (sabato e domenica 25.5. e 26.5.) su ceramica antica, contemporaneo e restauro della ceramica. In mese di Giunio durante fine settimane si organizzano dei workshop; laboratorio di ceramica per bambini 8.6./9.6., paperclay workshop 8.6/.9.6.(ospite di onore professore Rebecca Huchinson) e laboratorio di ceramica raku 15.6./16.6./22.6.
Nostra intenzione è di creare un dialogo fra ceramisti da sud e da nord, condividere degli esperienze e modi di lavorare, e anche un opportunità di riflettere sul futuro della ceramica; come siamo arrivati dalla ceramica alla plastica? Vogliamo che Tolfa sia un punto di incontro di tutto questo.
 

From Pottery to Plastic, Tolfa

Out of this world, Roma

Galleria “Il Laboratorio”
Via del moro, 49 00153-Roma

OUT OF THIS WORLD
Pittura e ceramica contemporanea
Dal 26 al 31 marzo 2013
Vernissage 26 marzo 2013 ore 18,30

ABSTRACT

Leena Knuuttila e Sabine Pagliarulo mettono in scena una visione quasi onirica della Natura,
lontano dalle contaminazioni della vita quotidiana, in un mix creativo da “respirare” per nutrire
l’anima.

Orario di apertura: 18-22,30

Free admittance

Per info evento: 333-6678631

Artisti: Leena Knuuttila

Sabine Pagliarulo

OUT OF THIS WORLD

Pittura e Ceramica Contemporanea

Di Leena Knuuttila e Sabine Pagliarulo

Le opere di Leena Knuuttila e Sabine Pagliarulo prendono possesso di questa piccola galleria nel
cuore di Roma mettendo in scena una visione quasi onirica della Natura.

Un “giardino segreto”, un’onda di emozioni , di sensibilità poetica, lontano dalle contaminazioni
della vita quotidiana, dove l’argilla dialoga con la pittura in un continuo scambio di energie:
contrasti materici e giochi di luce e colore si combinano in armonia, con la semplicità estetica che
da sempre le contraddistingue.

Boccioli, Conchiglie, Madrepore, forme organiche che accompagnano lo schiudersi della vita per
Sabine, colori tenui che ricordano i tramonti finlandesi e figure quasi aeree come in una visione
per Leena, e il sogno di queste due artiste prende forma in un mix creativo da “respirare” per
nutrire l’anima.

Out of this world, Roma

Crazy Teapot Vallauris

 

 

 

 

CRAZY TEAPOT Competition

An international competition  will be held from February 15^th,  2013.(deadline 15th April)

The aim is to create a unique piece with a lot of fantasy but also with all the usual characteristics of the teapot.

The piece will be judged on several criteria:

- originality
- aesthetic
- functionality

The jury for the awards will be selected from the Contemporary Art actors  (artists – critics – art historians – gallerists …) but also in the institutional environment.

An exhibition will be held in the C k’OMSA  gallery  in July and August, which will allow the public to vote.

An opening is scheduled at the beginning of the exhibition and the awards ceremony, in September.

http://vallauris-ioa.com/via/2013/02/concours-crazy-teapot/?lang=en

Crazy Teapot Vallauris

Jean-Nicolas Gérard

At Goldmark Gallery an exhibition beginning Saturday 27th April 2013, featuring ceramics by leading French potter Jean-Nicolas Gérard.
Widely regarded as the potter’s potter, Gérard makes freely thrown and decorated domestic ware.
Jean-Nicolas was born in Brazzaville (Congo) in 1954. He returned to France in 1961. He started studying ceramics in 1978 and was Jean Biagini’s student at Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Aix-en-Provence. He also trained with Claire Bogino.
His work has now gained international acclaim. He is regularly invited internationally for workshops or residencies and has exhibited in USA, Australia, China and Japan.

• Goldmark Gallery, 14 Orange Street,
  Uppingham, Rutland,
  LE15 9SQ, UK
  

Jean-Nicolas Gérard

The Lab, Roma

The Lab, Roma

Ceramic Art London 2013

CAL 2013 is coming a bit later than usual, the doors of the Royal College will be opening on the 12th of April. Warmer climate and a every year renewed program are a great temptation. Great artists are participating and the experience is enriched by the wonderful lectures exploring the diverse world of ceramics.


It would be a pity to miss it !

Jin Eui Kim

Ceramic Art London 2013 is the major selling fair for contemporary studio ceramics at the Royal College of Art on 12 April to 14 April 2013.

Ceramic Art London 2013 provides a unique showcase for contemporary studio ceramics featuring work from leading national and international makers.

•	Discover and buy work from over 75 leading contemporary ceramic artists
•	Enjoy an integrated education programme of talks, demonstrations and films designed to enhance your understanding and enjoyment of studio ceramics
•	Talent spot young emerging ceramic artists from the Royal College of Art

If you are a Collector, gallery owner, potter or enthusiast and want to see the best in contemporary studio ceramics check out our visitor registration page to receive regular updates on Ceramic Art London 2013.

Ceramic Art London 2013

Wouter Dam at Puls

Wouter Dam    2/03/13 > 4/04/13 at Puls Ceramics

The renowned Dutch ceramic sculptor Wouter Dam creates objects that are minimalist at first glance. Yet they are always complex and intriguing, leading the eye around soft curves and sharp edges and pleasing in a meditative way. Every new object Dam creates is unique. While all appear to be subtle variations on a same theme, each one is different from all that have gone before.
Dam confesses to being obsessed with the sculptural side of clay yet he still uses many traditional pottery methods such as throwing on a potter’s wheel to create his sculptures. His abstract ceramic sculptures are the result of a quest that started with traditional pots altered with minimalist intent. Over the years, they slowly became more open and complex and now consist only of curling strips of clay, barely disclosing the essential “potness” and “bowlness” of their forebears. In spite of appearances, one can still trace back the making process of the pieces to the potter’s wheel. Colors are chosen to enhance the sculpture; the pigments are sprayed onto the surface, adding nothing more than is necessary.

Puls Ceramics
19 rue du Page (Châtelain)
B-1050 Brussels
+32 494 83 60 55
mail@pulsceramics.com

Wouter Dam at Puls