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Manuela Klerkx
Ceramics in six artworks
Until recently, it was rare for ceramic work to be accepted in the world of contemporary art. But since more men have started making ceramics and the ‘artisanal’ and ‘goody-goody’ aspect of the medium has made room for a more conceptual approach, it has also been embraced by the art world. The renowned American art critic and Pulitzer Prize winner Jerry Saltz once aptly pointed out, "Don’t call yourself a ceramist. You’re sculptors, you assholes.” A justified observation because, after all, why can’t a ceramist be an artist?
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Flemish ceramist Anne Marie Laureys (1962) finds inspiration in the clay itself, or rather in its the processing. She is interested in the physical laws, fluidity and ultra-plasticity of the material. By exploring the boundaries of centuries-old turning techniques and their influence on the shape, volume, skin, texture and colour of clay, she creates her own anthropomorphic forms, which she defines as ‘metaphors for feelings’. Using her fingers and hands, she models the wet and soft plastic wall that arises while turning on the potter's wheel. She transforms the resulting ‘cast clay’ into organic sculptures that thanks to the different firing phases, acquire a granular and pronounced structure and are characterised by shifting colour tones.
Represented by Galerie Franzis Engels
Represented by Galerie Franzis Engels
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Daan Paans (1985) likes to explore the way in which we assign value to works of art and historical artifacts and the question of how our perception changes over time. Which processes underlie this? To answer this question, he investigates themes such as the relationship between original and copy, scaling up and scaling down, as well as cultural mutations and changing images caused by different cultural backgrounds, time periods and ideologies and by commerce, taste and available technology. In his artistic practice, Paans studies how image formation processes have evolved throughout history in order to better understand how our view of the world is constantly changing.
Represented by galerie dudokdegroot
Represented by galerie dudokdegroot
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Robbert Goyvaerts (1989) and Frank Merkx (1989) have known each other since secondary school in Kortrijk and have been known as the artist duo Robbert&Frank Frank&Robbert since studying art at KASK in Ghent. Through their artistic expressions – from theatre and performance to video art, 3D print, VR and art objects – they try to better understand each other and the world: “We look at the world with amazement, at how people behave and the phenomena we encounter. We don’t want to explain these things, but study and deconstruct them. The whole notion of assigning meaning remains endlessly fascinating. How meaning is generated, how we forge a bond with someone, an object, a material or an event.” In a humorous, playful way, they approach such themes as power and friendship based on the holistic principle that everything in the world is connected. In their performances and plays in particular, they strongly appeal to the audience to participate, which is often as unfamiliar as it is confrontational.
Represented by FRED&FERRY
Represented by FRED&FERRY
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Painting, drawing, wood carving and sculpture: you name it, he does it. All of Jonat Deelstra’s work stems from the same source of inspiration, namely different cultures and religions. Miscommunication and clashes between cultures motivate him to embrace them. For his paintings, he borrows motifs and symbolism from the visual language of different religions and cultures. When sculpting, he works in a much more intuitive and associative way. For the series Uitvaartcentrum De Noordzee, he made more than 30 ceramic ‘coral statues’, urns on which coral can grow and with which he would like to make an underwater cemetery. Deelstra explains, “Perhaps in the future, when we die, we can have ourselves planted in the sea, so that coral can cling to our mortal remains.” The sacred aspect of such an image appeals to him. Yet, he also takes a humorous approach to death and the weirder his urns become, the more beautiful he finds them.
Represented by GoMulan Gallery
Represented by GoMulan Gallery