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By Odette Lopez Contemporary art is a product of art history, a transformation and utilization of the vast repository of images and ideas that came before it. It is a myth that the ancient world and contemporary art have relatively nothing to do with each other. On the contrary, ancient artworks are the foundation of our modern visual and cultural...

Fawn Krieger's recent series of sculptural works are inherently modular; their bounds are only limited by the decision to pause and ultimately stop. The nebulous structures seem to expand endlessly in multiple directions. Despite this organic fluidity and perceived extension, these sculptures are equivocal and ruminative in Rebus Principle at SE Cooper Contemporary in Portland, Oregon, and Mouth of the...

Ceramics takes center stage at Collect 2022, the leading international fair for contemporary craft and design Over thirty galleries (32 out of 40) will show ceramic works at Collect 2022, making ceramics the best-represented discipline at this year's fair. Founded in 2004 by the Crafts Council, Collect has established itself as the leading art fair for craft and has been...

By Graciela Olio, Anabel González Alonso, and Claudia Toro. We consider contemporary ceramics to be part of the concept of expanded ceramics, which is a concept that amplifies and expands its subject area and thus decolonizes itself from the historical tradition that implies the training from and within the ceramic trade as the ceramist’s sole track. This activity also refers...

An article about Christa Zeitlhofer's exhibition "On the vulnerability of the surface", Galateea Gallery, Bucharest, September 1-30, 2021.Curator: Cristina Popescu Russu. Expert reviewer: Monika PădureţTranslation: Flavia Iustina BosnariArticle by Constantin Hostiuc It may seem a truism to conceive or think of works of art as “singular objects”. For, not only by definition but also de facto, the author-artist cannot create...

Are Non-Fungible-Tokens (NFTs) the newest collectible? Yes, no, maybe? Depending on who you ask, you will get a different answer. One exhibition, New Ownership at Eutectic Gallery, a contemporary ceramics gallery and studio in Portland, Oregon, challenges the concept of how we can collect ceramics, with NFTs taking center stage. How would this recently-developed blockchain/financial technology be incorporated alongside physical...

A presentation about the 2021 Ceramics & Glass bachelor's class at Konstfack, Stockholm Artists: Hanna Hjalmarsson, Christian Håkansson, Cornelia Dahlin, Emma Nygård Stare, Isabel Tegström, Johanna Bylén, Mio Elias Halvarsson, Tilde Hansen, Olle Wärme, Malin Pierre Konstfack - University of Arts, Crafts and Design is a university college for higher education in the area of art, crafts and design in...

Ceramic art at Liste Art Fair, 2021 Ceramic art is more and more present at contemporary art fairs around the world. One example is Liste Art Fair, taking place between September 20-16, 2021, in Basel, Switzerland. Under the premise of promoting young international art, the Liste Committee selected 81 galleries from 33 countries to participate at the fair. Their artists...

By Melinda Farkasdy In the Summer of 2020, an extraordinary ceramics exhibition took place at the FISE Gallery in BudapestCriminal Craft alkotói közösség kiállítása (Exhibition of Criminal Craft community – translated by author). 21 July – 7 August 2020. Budapest, FISE Gallery.. The event was the debut of a recently formed community of young Hungarian ceramicists, Criminal CraftMembers: FARKAS, Gabriella...

Spencer Wells, a New York City-based photographer, filmmaker and writer, visited and photographed Jono Pandolfi's ceramics studio a few months ago. This photography essay is an incursion into a very beautiful and functional studio located across the Hudson River in Union City, New Jersey. Text by Spencer Wells Walking into the Pandolfi studio felt like walking into a familiar family...

Article by Erez Maayan Five Formica tables, the kind found in almost every (Israeli) kitchen through the mid-1980s, on top of which are what appear to be fossilized meals. Twenty-one porcelain dishes filled with gastromorphic (food-resembling) matter that is completely and undeniably inedible while not completely identifiable. Platters crammed with what could resemble rotten patties with congealed gravy, putrid porridge...

By Laetitia Wilson Once in a while a ceramics exhibition reaches breathtaking proportions by defying expectations and ambitiously expanding the medium. Here and Now 14 at the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery was such an exhibition. It showcased new works from 12 Western Australian artists and situated ceramics as a strong medium looking outward as ever greater than the insular cottage...

By Rachel Dickson It is no coincidence that we refer to the ‘making’ of a drawing. To draw is to make and to make is to draw. To draw on skills, experience, material qualities, the past, a glimpse of the future and the influence of others. Others who have taught us, told us their stories, showed us their secrets and...

Article by Debra Sloan In the province of British Columbia, on the far western edge of Canada, the ceramic culture was initiated through international immigration during the 20th Century. BC is one of the few places in the world where the indigenous people did not develop a ceramic technology.Instead, the First Nations were and remained masters of wood—their source of...

By Hagai Segev, 2014“Up until two years ago, my father, Yaakov, had an agricultural mechanization workshop. Every time I visited the workshop, I found myself entranced by the power of the iron boards and the pile of black and rust colored iron pipes of different diameters, waiting to be used”, Simcha Even-Chen reminisces. “When I saw the call for entries...

By Shamai Sam Gibsh & Stephanie Young A movie set, created in the style of a sixth century village, within forests and farmland, cherry blossom and azaleas, in valleys and mountains centrally located in South Korea, is the stage for this amazing Mungyeong Tea Bowl Festival. The City of Mungyeong and the South Korean government sponsor the festival, now in...

Meditations on a performance in clay by Cybele Rowe and Lauren AriBy Daniel Fleischmann 1. “Natural Great Piece” is an intricate, intimate, communal performance in the medium of clay. Like a dance or a concert, it is more overtly bound to time than most sculptural artwork, and it ends dissolved into the past.2. Cybele Rowe and Lauren Ari make a...

By James Romaine Since its inception in 2005, the Zentrum für Keramik-Berlin has been an oasis of cultural exchange for ceramic artists in one of Europe’s principal artistic centers. Founded by Thomas Hirschler and Kaja Witt, the residency program provides a creative sanctuary in the midst of an exhilarating city where artists from around the world can create artwork stimulated...