International Ceramics Studio - Nemzetkozi Keramia Studio

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Objects of Desire
an international ceramic symposium with masters
5th - 26th July, 2012

During the three week syposium, workshop participants wil create new works, share information and learn new techniques through the formal and informal sessions, discuss the advances and developments in this expanding field of ceramics through a series of presentations and lectures from all the participants.

The workshop will culminate in an exhibition of the work created during the symposium in the Museum of the International Ceramics Studio.

Featured Masters:

Paul Mathieu (Canada)

His work in ceramics uses function and decoration as concepts to explore the specificity of ceramics within art and culture. Altogether art, design, media and crafts, the works contest and subvert these categories to show their irrelevancy, ultimately.

Mathieu received an MFA from UCLA in 1987. He has taught ceramics at many college and university levels, including Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Since 1996, he has been teaching at Emily Carr University in Vancouver, BC. His work has been shown internationally and he has received many awards, including the "Grand Prix des Metiers d'Art" in 1985, the Chalmers Award in Crafts in 2000 and the Sadye Bronfman Award for Excellence in Crafts and the Governor General Award in Visual Arts in 2007.

Mathieu’s texts have been published by Studio Potter in the USA, Ceramics: Art and Perception in Australia, La Revue de la Ceramique et du Verre in France, Keramieki Techni in Greece, and the national ceramics magazine of Israel, as well as Espace magazine, Artichoke and Contact in Canada.

He is the author of a book "Sexpots: Eroticism in Ceramics", recently published by A&C Black in England. It features erotic ceramics from the Neolithic to today with an emphasis on the work of upward to 100 contemporary artists from all over the world. He also recently completed a new book, an overview of the history of ceramics, with an emphasis on contemporary works. This book, "The Art of the Future: 14 essays on Ceramics", is available on his website at www.paulmathieu.ca/theartofthefuture/

He has been an artist in residence at the Banff Centre in Canada, the Tama Art Studios in Machida, Japan and the International Ceramics Studio in Kecskemet, Hungary. Since the fall of 2003 he has made four separate stays at the San Bao International Ceramics Studio in Jingdezhen, China to research and realize new works. In 2009, he participated in an experimental design residency and symposium at the Hauguang Zibo Bone China Factory, in Shandong, China.

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His work is in numerous private and public collections including Musee du Quebec, Musee d'Art Contemporain, Musee des Beaux-Arts both in Montreal, and the Gardiner Museum for Ceramic Art in Toronto; Shigaraki in Japan; the Victoria and Albert Museum in England and the LA County Art Museum in California.

see Paul Mathieu's website. http://www.paulmathieu.ca/

Leopold Foulem (Canada)

"I think that art is about ideas and about abstraction... it's very important to me that my objects are not useful. They are about function but they are not functional.

There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that ceramic objects can be full-fledged art objects and even cross into the art field as we understand art to be in our western society. However all ceramics are not created equal and also all objects made in clay do not possess "ceramicness."

Léopold L. Foulem’s extraordinary career has confirmed him as a world-renowned ceramic artist whose work is represented in important public and private collections in North America, Europe and Japan. Although the conceptual base of his practice originates from within the craft tradition, it deals primarily with contemporary issues of post-modern aesthetics, thus elevating the current discourse about ceramics, and challenging generally-held perceptions of what is considered craft.

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Foulem creates works that address our knowledge and understanding of ceramics, while challenging our presumed stereotypes, and exploring the fringes of respected traditions. A technical wizard, Foulem’s pieces combine erudition and humour to create a vocabulary which is indisputably his own, playing on semantic reversals that force us to question the role of ceramics.

Foulem is a world authority on Picasso’s ceramic work, and has collected considerable documentation on the subject over the past 25 years, with his research resulting in a number of publications. In addition, Foulem taught for more than 20 years in the ceramics programme of the CEGEP de Vieux Montréal, and more recently has been teaching at the CEGEP St-Laurent in Montreal’s north end. In 1999, he received the Jean A. Chalmers National Craft Award, in recognition of his more-than 30-year history in ceramics.

"I believe that genuine art is about concepts and indisputably neither about medium nor style, nor even about making. My ceramics are about ideas. My artistic output is never about self-expression or the pursuit of beauty."

How to participate

At the International Ceramics Studio we have comfortable ceramic studios and on site accommodation in single bedrooms (provided with bedding, pillows, blankets, towels etc.). The accommodation is self catering and we have large modern kitchens for preparing meals and lounges for socialising. Artists have full 24 hour access to their studios.

Cost of participating in the symposium is 210,000 HUF and includes, accommodation in single room, studio space,use of all equipment etc. Extra costs will be for the materials and firings you use.

Please email Steve at icshu@hotmail.com for details and application.

Masterclass
Objects of Desire
an international ceramic symposium with masters
5th - 26th July, 2012

További információ: Kormos Emese: icshu@t-online.hu