CERAMIC
MOMENTUM – Staging the Object
CLAY Museum of Ceramic Art
Middelfart, Denmark.
11 May – 3 November 2019
It is a
great pleasure for us to announce the opening shortly of this big international
exhibition of contemporary ceramics at CLAY Museum of Ceramic Art.
As curators
of the exhibition Copenhagen Ceramics has put focus on the contemporary
international ceramics scene viewed in the light of the current global exchange
of images and inspiration that flows non-stop through various social media,
etc. The parallel digital life of the actual works, you might say.
We have
selected works by 23 artists from Denmark and abroad. Artists who consciously,
in widely different ways, are incorporating their own day and age
into the
expression of their works. In sculptures, pots, objects, tableaux, etc. In
works which clearly speak of great involvement in and understanding of the
material and its potential.
The exhibiting
artists are:
Anton Alvarez (SE/CL),
Karen Bennicke (DK), Martin Bodilsen Kaldahl (DK), Nils Erichsen Martin (NO),
Michael Geertsen (DK), Mia E Göransson (SE), Carl Emil Jacobsen (DK), Ole
Jensen (DK), Gitte Jungersen (DK), Marianne Krumbach (DK), Takuro Kuwata (JP),
Turi Heisselberg Petersen (DK), Steen Ipsen (DK), Morten Løbner Espersen (DK),
Marianne Nielsen (DK), Pernille Pontoppidan Petersen (DK), Anders Ruhwald
(US/DK), Christina Schou Christensen (DK), Bente Skjøttgaard (DK), Linda Sormin
(US/TH), Marit Tingleff (NO), Anne Tophøj (DK) and Matt Wedel (US).
The very character
of the work is central – the finished ceramic object which is the result of a
long-term focused work with the concepts, techniques and materials.
With approximately
100 ceramic works, the exhibition invites you to take a closer look at both new
connections and differences between the works and at the rôle assumed by the
works in both the local and the globalized world.
The
exhibition is the result of a close collaboration between CLAY Museum of
Ceramic Art and Copenhagen Ceramics. The scenography of the show has been put
in the hands of exhibition-designer Johan Carlsson of JAC studios. Concept and
lay–out of the accompanying catalogue (to be published at the end of June 2019) is by graphic designer, Henrik Kubel (A2/SW/HK, London), who throughout all
the years of Copenhagen Ceramics, brilliantly
has been in charge of our graphic profile.
The
exhibition is generously supported by the Annie and Otto Johs. Detlefs
Foundation (OJD).
We hope you
might find the time to pass by CLAY Museum of Ceramic Art during the summer or
autumn period. We guarantee a great and extraordinary experience in the varied
ceramic landscape drawn by up the exhibition.
Best
regards
Copenhagen
Ceramics
Bente
Skjøttgaard, Steen Ipsen and Martin Bodilsen
Kaldahl
Photoes from the exhibition by Jeppe Gudmundsen-Holmgreen:
Matt Wedel,
US: Flower Tree, 2014. 107 x 93 x 122 cm. Fired clay and glaze. Courtesy of L. A. Louver, Venice, California.
Martin
Bodilsen Kaldahl, DK: Spatial Drawing #18, 2017. 68 x 49 x 51 cm. Glazed
earthenware.
Spatial
Drawing #20, 2017. 166 x 55 cm. Earthenware with slips (Works made at The
Danish National Workshops).
Morten Løbner Espersen, DK: Moon Jar #2171,
2019. Stoneware
and Glaze. Detail.
Morten Løbner
Espersen, DK: Group of Moon Jars, 2019.
All 44 x 44 cm. Stoneware and glaze.
Mia E Göransson, SE: Travers, 2018. 71 x 60 x 29 cm. Sugar Landscape, 2018. 54 x 100 x 32 cm. Porcelainand earthenware. Shelf in wood and metal.
Carl Emil Jacobsen,
DK: Group of Powder Variations. Red Powder #9, 2017. 60 x 85 x 85 cm.
Pink Powder #4, 2017.
54 x 100 x 50 cm. Dark Red Powder Variation #2, 2017. 85 x 60 x 60 cm. Acrylic, fiber concrete, pigments from
crushed bricks, polystyrene, steel.
Anton
Alvarez, SE/CL: Group of extruded works, 2018. Colored porcelain and glazed
ceramic.
Steen Ipsen,
DK: Organic Movement 2, 2015. 63 x 60 cm. White glazed earthenware with black
decal decoration. (Work made at The Danish National Workshops)
Nils Erichsen Martin,
NO: Group of works of Cody Lundin and Dave Canterbury, 2018. Earthenware.
Pernille Pontoppidan
Pedersen, DK: Nickel dipping from heights unknown, 2013. 36 x 28 x 25 cm.
Monolith 90,
2015/2018. 90 x 65 x 30 cm. Honey Pie, 2016. 42 x 100 x 100 cm. Glazed Ceramic.
Ole Jensen, DK: Primal
Pottery Project, 2016. Glazed earthenware.
Marit
Tingleff, NO: Ornamental Double, Green, 2019. 89 x 118 x 20 cm and Ornamental
Double, Blue, 2019. 86 x 120x 20 cm. Earthenware. Transparent glaze, recycled
glass.
Gitte
Jungersen, DK: Everything Changes and Nothing Stands Still #10, 2019. 151 x 94 x 5 and Everything Changes and
Nothing Stands Still #11, 2019. 151 x 89 x 5 cm. Three different glazes in
several layers. (Works made at The Danish National Workshops)
Turi Heisselberg
Pedersen, DK: Group of untitled sculptures, 2018. Slip glazed stoneware.
Takura Kuwata, JP: Tea Bowl, 2016. 9 x 13 x 12. Porcelain,
glaze pigment, platinum. Courtesy of Kosaku Kanechika.
Marianne Nielsen, DK: Pair 2018. Glazed stoneware.
Anne Tophøj, DK: Canteen head-setting. Food tray reflection, 2019. Cast porcelain.
Anne Tophøj, DK: Canteen head-setting. Food tray reflection, 2019. Cast porcelain.
Karen Bennicke, DK:
Urban Complex – III, IX, VIII, 2015
-2017. Terracotta and glazed earthenware.
Marianne
Krumbach, DK: State´s #5, #1, #2, #4, #6, 2018. #3, 2019. From Outside, #9,
2018. Glazed stoneware.
Linda Sormin, CA/TH:
Sketch for Wet Dream Architecture, 2017. 74 x 100 x 77 cm. Glazed ceramic,
discarded 3D prints.
Bente Skjøttgaard, DK:
Nature of Glaze #1801, #1802, #1803, 2018. Glazed stoneware.
Michael
Geertsen, DK: Wall object, 2008. 45 x 120 cm. Glazed earthenware. (Private
Collection)
Christina
Schou Christensen, DK: Group of objects with fluid glaze, 2017. Stoneware and
glaze. Curtesy of the artist and the Danish Arts Foundation´s collection.
Anders
Ruhwald, US/DK: Group of works, 2017. Glazed earthenware. Courtesy of Morán Morán
Gallery, Los Angeles
Exhibition design: Jac Studios
Matt Wedel,
US: Flower Tree, 2015. 111 x 119 x 122 cm. Fired clay and glaze. Courtesy of L. A. Louver,
Venice, California.
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