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02/02/2018

Turi Heisselberg Pedersen

Copenhagen-based artist Turi Heisselberg Pedersen’s new ceramic series Faceted Shapes features works which draw upon organic crystal and igneous rock formations. Despite their geometric forms, each piece has an irregularity imbuing the organic occurrences from which their shape is derived, Pedersen states in her artist statement.

31/12/2017

23/12/2017

Jeanne Bonnefoy-Mercuriali, née en 1980, est sculpteur-céramiste, diplômée de l’Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Appliqués et des Métiers d’Art – Olivier de Serres (Paris). Elle voyage depuis plusieurs années entre son atelier français en Eure et Loir et le Moyen-Orient. Ses créations, à la frontière entre l’art et l’artisanat, tentent de conjuguer inspirations traditionnelles et formes contemporaines, pièces utilitaires et ambitions artistiques.

Jeanne Bonnefoy-Mercuriali
Born in 1980
Based in La Chapelle-Forainvilliers, Eure et Loir, France

For several years now, Jeanne Bonnefoy-Mercuriali has been travelling back and forth between her studio in France and the Middle East. Her creations interweave traditional inspirations and contemporary shapes. After perfecting her "colombin" technique in Yemen, she travelled to Palestine, where she created the Jeux d'anses series, drawing inspiration from antique earthenware jars. To call up the presence of the place where she lived, she started out by modeling local clay. The sobriety of these pieces is the reflection of this minimalist approach, which she has carried over to France.

17/09/2017

CARPENTERS WORKSHOP GALLERY
Carpenters Workshop Gallery produces and exhibits functional sculptures by international rising and already established artists and designers going outside their traditional territories of expression.

The gallery is actively involved in the research and production of the limited edition works exhibited.

03/09/2017

James Marshall’s "Black Interfusion"
Liminal Explorations
There are works of art which I can quickly digest and rattle off about – the process, the kinesthetic creation and the final product. Then there are those, in which, after viewing, I need to sit with. Their presence so profound, transcribing the visual form into a written one seems to belittle and cheapen them. I’ve been mulling over James Marshall’s Black Interfusion sculptures for a while now and my conclusion is that these works transcend the perceptual experience existing, rather, between.

18/08/2017

" ... but the "show must go on .... "

Toshiko Takaezu

Born 1922, Pepeeko, Hawaii; Cranbrook Academy of Art (CAA), Teaching Assistant, Department of Ceramics, 1953–1954; CAA MFA, Department of Ceramics, 1954; died 2011, Honolulu, Hawaii

17/08/2017

Adrián Villar Rojas Cuts Michelangelo’s David Down to Size at Marian Goodman in London
The artist's travesty of one of history's great masterworks forces the viewer to reconsider status.