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Lourdes Riera Rey – Spain
Eva Koj – Germany
Simon Levin – USA
Bärbel Thoelke – Germany
Vlad Basarab – Romania
Andile Schoellhorn – South Africa / Germany
Douglas Kenney – USA
Florine Offergelt – Italy
Marilyn Richeda – USA
FORUM
Interested Pleasure – Gustav Weiß – Art philosophy
Historical stove tiles in Saxony – Rainer G. Richter – Art history
EXHIBITIONS / EVENTS
Bauhaus at the Hetjens – Düsseldorf – Germany
Weser Chinesen – Fürstenberg – Germany
Fantasy Island – Rapperswil-Jona – Switzerland
COLLECT 2019 – London UK
“Etats de Matière” – Le Fel – France
Galerie Del Campo – Wijster – Netherlands
Tulou / Earth buildings – Fujian – China
Ceramics Fair – Oldenburg – Germany
ARTIST JOURNAL
Yuan-Te Wang – TW and Bean Finneran – USA – Ting-Ju Shao
IN STUDIO
Heide Nonnenmacher – Evelyne Schoenmann – Interview / Developing skills
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Lourdes Riera Rey – ES, Eva Koj – DE, Simon Levin – USA, Bärbel Thoelke – DE, Vlad Basarab – RO, Andile Schoellhorn – ZA / DE, Douglas Kenney – USA, Florine Offeriert – IT, Marilyn Richeda – USA
Lourdes Riera Rey
EXHIBITIONS
Bauhaus at the Hetjens – Düsseldorf – DE, Weser Chinesen – Fürstenberg – DE, Fantasy Island – Rapperswil-Jona CH, COLLECT 2019 – London – UK, “Etats de Matière” – Le Fel – FR, Galerie Del Campo – Wijster – NL, Tulou / Earth buildings – Fujian – CN, Ceramics Fair – Oldenburg – DE
Zemer Peled – Cynthia Corbett Gallery
Bean Finnegan
DATES
Dates and Exhibitions from Amsterdam to Winzer
Exhibitions: Fantasy Island – Rapperswil-Jona CH, COLLECT 2019 – London – UK, Tulou / Earth buildings – Fujian – CN,Artist Journal: Yuan-Te Wang – TW and Bean Finnegan – USA
In Studio: Heide Nonnenmacher – Evelyne Schoenmann[/rs_section_title]
“I am from a small village and I have always been very much in contact with nature. My first memories are of playing with mud and the broken snails I used to find.”
In this environment, Lourdes Riera, also known as “Caelles”, was trained as an artist. Riera left her native Lérida when she was very young to settle in Teruel; there she studied ceramics at the School of Art and at that place she began to exhibit in 1989. Since then, he has displayed in more than thirty exhibitions, of which the latest, and probably the most important, has been at the School of Ceramics in Muel, near Zaragoza, where she presented dozens of pieces that perfectly define her career.
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Lourdes Riera Rey
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[/rs_promo_box]Eva Koj was born in Ratingen, North Rhine-Westphalia, in 1962. After work experience with Christine Atmer de Reig from 1983 – 85, she studied fine art / ceramics at the technical college of design, now the Muthesius University of Fine Arts and Design, under Professor Johannes Gebhardt. Her studies were complemented by a study trip to South Korea and a study visit to a glass blowing workshop in Sunderland, UK. She graduated in 1992 and took over the Stadttöpferei, the municipal pottery in Neumünster until 1995. This was combined with running the Galerie im Fürstenhof.
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Eva Koj
Andile-Ceramics makes handmade porcelain, ranging from functional ware and jewellery to conceptual work. As stated before, my earlier works were mostly earthenware but I have then since moved on to a more challenging and daring body.[/rs_section_text_block]
Andile Schoellhorn
Richeda’s colour choices in muted tones first bring a hush so that visually, I am captured and emotionally, I am listening. Then I notice the textures, which lend to the mysterious quality of the work. Are those scratches and scars to the clay the work of the artist’s hands or the work of time having worn away at the memories the sculptures contain? I am captivated. Richeda hand builds with terracotta clay using coils and slabs.
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Marilyn Richeda
It thus seemed obvious for swissceramics, the Swiss ceramics association, and the Kunst(Zeug)Haus (“art armoury”) in Rapperswil-Jona to cooperate in organising the juried group exhibition Fantasy Island. The Kunst(Zeug)Haus as a centre of contemporary Swiss art is particularly concerned to promote pluralist approaches in art practice and to provide a platform for various artistic genres. The fact that the participants of the swissceramics exhibition are from the various geographical and linguistic regions in Switzerland also corresponds to the pan-Swiss, trans-regional orientation of the Kunst(Zeug)Haus.
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Muller, photo – Tobias Humm
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Bian Xiadong and Wan Liya – China Design Center
In 2008, approximately 23,000 earth houses still in existence in the provinces of Fujian, Guangdong and Jiangxi in the south and southeast of the country were listed by UNESCO as world heritage sites.
The earth houses were built between the 12th and 20th centuries by the Hakka. The Hakka people originated in northern China and are one of the eight ethnic groups in China. After the Song dynasty was displaced by the Mongols in the 13th century, they fled across the Yellow River and the Yangtze to the mountainous south, where they could continue to live with their language and according to their culture. The name Hakka means “guests”.
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Tulou with a rectangular configuration in the old city of Yun Shui Yao
Wang was born in Taichung, Taiwan in 1971. His thin porcelain is a synthesis of the traditional concept and techniques of thin porcelain and contemporary, new experiments on thin porcelain. The elaborate and elegant White Thin Porcelain and Circling Clouds, or the dynamics of the Colorful Patterns series, demonstrate the highly focused and sophisticated craftsmanship. The delicate lightness and colours of his works manifest the tranquillity of time or an animated aesthetic charm.
Bean Finneran (USA)
Bean Finneran was born in 1947 in Cleveland, Ohio. The artist brings many ceramic tubes of various shades into different fields. As the tubes are installed, their colours and shapes begin to interact with the space until the work is fully installed and has quietly expanded in space, urging the viewers to re-examine the actuality of the new space.
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Yuan-Te Wang
Bean Finneran
Heide, you are a ceramist body and soul. When you chose your profession, what made you decide on clay and porcelain?
With clay and with porcelain I am fascinated by the various physical states of the material. Ceramics is a material that you can find all over the world. The firing process is an important aspect, which follows its own rules. I hit upon porcelain when I was invited to the international symposium in Kahla. The porcelain factory offered us artists a huge area to experiment in.
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Heide Nonnenmacher