Clayart notes – captivating display

 

 

Chance Encounters III Sara Flynn pottery-Loewe Miami

Sara Flynn pottery – Loewe Miami

 

Location, lighting, composition, camera angles, exhibition concepts and use of props  are some of the factors that can determine the successful creation of a marketing image for artwork display. Jonathan Anderson, the Artistic Director for the Spanish fashion house Loewe, used a bold curation concept for the ‘Chance Encounters’ series by importing an 18th Century grainary from Portugal to the Loewe store in the Miami Design District .The weathered, unadorned monolithic structure is featured in its stone plus wooden roof frame entirety.  Naturally the degraded and rugged surfaces provided an excellent contrast for the contemporary pottery, art and fashion on show. Featured ceramic artists for Chance Encounters have included Lucie Rie (2015), John Ward (2016) and Sara Flynn in 2017.
Images below highlight the grandeur of this ambitious display. I have also highlighted other ceramic pieces and some sculptures for their good photography and original presentation concepts.

 

Chance Encounters-II-John Ward ceramics exhibition at Loewe

John Ward ceramics exhibition at Loewe

Chance Encounters-III

 

 

Chance Encounters-III--Installation of ceramics by John Ward

Chance Encounters III–Installation of ceramics by John Ward

 

 

John Ward ceramics-Loewe Foundation Miami

John Ward ceramics-Loewe Foundation Miami

 

 

John Ward-ceramics vessels-Loewe

John Ward ceramics-Loewe Foundation Miami

 

 

Lucie Rie - Loewe Foundation

Lucie Rie pottery – Loewe, Miami

 

 

Loewe, Miami

 

 

Left: Glass sculpture ‘Dinosaur’ by Reno Taria Pietra· Venezia motifs prehistoric creatures.

Right:  Line and Surface VI  by Ken Igawa, a skillful lacquer painter

Loewe Craft prize 2017

 

 

loewe display in Rome_John Ward

Loewe display in Rome — John Ward

 

 

Sara-Flynn ceramic-vessel

Sara Flynn, Loewe, Miami

 

 

 

 

Sara Flynn installation-at-Loewe, Miami

Sara Flynn installation at

Loewe, Miami

 

John Ward pottery Loewe_Chance_Encounters_3

John Ward pottery Loewe Chance Encounters 3

 

 

Sara Flynn-contemporary ceramic art pottery vessel

Sara Flynn

 

Sara-Flynn British ceramics

Sara Flynn

 

 

John Ward  — Chance Encounters II

photo World Red Eye

 

 

Loewe art basel -- John Ward

 John Ward  —   Loewe @ art basel

 

 

Aneta-Regel--Raining-Stones - Finalist of the LOEWE Craft Prize 2018

Aneta Regel — ‘Raining Stones’

Finalist of the LOEWE Craft Prize 2018

 

 

Lowe Foundation

 

 

Claudi Casanovas Quart Minvant 

 

Catalan artist Claudi Casanovas’ had a  solo exhibition Quart Minvant (Waning Crescent) in 2017 at the  Fitzrovia Chapel curated by Erskine, Hall and Coe which featured large stoneware sculptures with biomorphic shapes. The pieces, which contain the form of an arch, refer to a metaphorical journey, a moment in balance, which ultimately alludes to life: life in its final evanescence and its promise of completeness.

 

Claudi Casanovas  --  'Waning Crescent' sculptures Exhibition by Erskine, Hall and Coe

Claudi Casanovas  —  ‘Quart Creixent’ (Waning Crescent) sculptures – Exhibition by Erskine, Hall and Coe

Photography by Andy Stagg

 

 

Ceramic sculptures - quart-creixent by Claudi Casanovas

Ceramic sculptures – ‘Quart Creixent’ by Claudi Casanovas

 

 

Claudi Casanovas-Waning Crescent contemporary ceramic sculpture

Claudi Casanovas  —  ‘Waning Crescent’ contemporary ceramic sculpture

Exhibition by Erskine, Hall and Coe

Photography by Andy Stagg

 

Claudi Casanovas, Pop (Octopus),-2017, Stoneware sculpture

Claudi Casanovas, ‘Pop’ (Octopus), stoneware sculpture

2017

 

Claudio Casanovas sculpture- Photography by Andy Stagg

Claudio Casanovas sculpture

Photography by Andy Stagg

 

 

Claudi Casanovas -- Serposa (Serpent),-2017,-Stoneware,

Claudi Casanovas — ‘Serposa’ (Serpent) – Stoneware

2017

 

Claudi Casanovas contemporary sculpture---photo Andy Stagg

Claudi Casanovas contemporary sculpture—photo Andy Stagg

 

 

Paola Paronetto – creazioni ceramiche

 

Paola Paronetto aspires to a certain degree of fragility in her sculptures by making them look more like cardboard constructions then ceramic. The principal material is clay, with the a variable percentage of other materials like pulp, paper, cardboard, glazes, vitrified engobes, gold, and platinum in the third fire.  I felt that the presentation, apart from the excellent lighting, also gained from the contrast of muted palettes against a grungy, monochrome background.

 

Paola Paronetto ribbed paper clay bottles

Paola Paronetto ribbed paper clay bottles

 

 

Paola Paronetto paper clay suspended lamps

Paola Paronetto paper clay suspended lamps

 

 

Handmade Cartocci collection by Paola Paronetto

Handmade collection by Paola Paronetto – ‘Cartocci, Colori, Terra’

 

 

Handmade paper ceramic collection of various vessels by Paola Paronetto

Handmade paper ceramic collection by Paola Paronetto

 

 

Paola Paronetto-paper-ceramic bowl and two bottles

Paola Paronetto

 

Paola-Paronetto-paper ceramic contemporary vessels

Paola Paronetto

 

Paola Paronetto-ribbed paper clay vessels

Paola Paronetto –  Cartocci, Tulipani ribbed paper clay vessels

 

Paola Paronetto Cartocci Colori Terra paper clay bottles

Paola Paronetto  — ‘Cartocci Colori Terra’

 

Paper-Clay-Paola-Paronetto bottle and bowls

Paola Paronetto

 

 

Paola Paronetto working in her studio

Paola Paronetto

 

 

 

Olivia Jeczmyk for Patek

 

Objects by still life photographer Olivia Jeczmyk for Patek

Objects by still life photographer Olivia Jeczmyk for Patek

 

 

 

Objects by still life photographer Olivia Jeczmyk for Patek - various pottery vessels and dried flower

Objects by still life photographer Olivia Jeczmyk for Patek

 

 

a selection of pottery vessels and dried flower -- -photographer-olivia-jeczmyk

Objects by still life photographer Olivia Jeczmyk for Patek

 

 

a selection of pottery vessels and dried flower -- -photographer-olivia-jeczmyk

Objects by still life photographer Olivia Jeczmyk for Patek

 

 

 

The three images created below by Jayme Odgers were for the 1972 catalog of Architectural Pottery’s Pro/Artisan Collection. They were assembled from photographs Odgers took in the Arizona desert and his images of the company’s stoneware products ornamented by David Cressey.

 

 

created by Jayme Odgers for the 1972 catalog of Architectural Pottery's Pro/Artisan Collection. They were assembled from photographs Odgers took in the Arizona desert and his images of the company's stoneware products ornamented by David Cressey

Photo – Jayme Odgers

Mocad

 

Photo – Jayme Odgers

Mocad

 

Photo – Jayme Odgers

Mocad

 

Almine Rech Gallery

 

Anselm Reyle, ‘Laguna Sunrise’

Almine Rech Gallery, Brussels

 

Anselm-Reyle-‘Laguna-Sunrise-Photo-Hugard-and-Vanoverschelde

Anselm Reyle, ‘Laguna Sunrise’

Almine Rech Gallery, Brussels

 

 

Anselm-Reyle,-Laguna-Sunrise-at-Almine-Rech-Gallery,-Brussels

Anselm Reyle, ‘Laguna Sunrise’

Almine Rech Gallery, Brussels

 

 

Anselm Reyle, Laguna Sunrise,-Almine Rech Gallery, Brussels - ,-Brussels-(7-September–5-October-2017).-©-Anselm-Reyle---Courtesy-of-the-Artist-and-Almine-Rech-Gallery,-Brussels

Anselm Reyle, ‘Laguna Sunrise’

Almine Rech Gallery, Brussels

 

 

Nicolette-Johnson black and white vase image

Nicolette Johnson

 

 

Nicolette-Johnson-pottery vase with flower buds

Nicolette Johnson

 

 

Ceramic cup -- decembrance-2017-Catherine-White

Ceramic cup — Decembrance 2017 by Catherine White

 

 

Decembrance 2017 by Catherine White

Decembrance 2017 by Catherine White

 

 

Small ceramic vessel Decembrance 2017 by Catherine White

Decembrance 2017 by Catherine White

 

Ceramic plate Catherine White

Decembrance 2017 by Catherine White

 

 

Barbara Hepworth felt passionately about the role of the artist within society and was instrumental in the promotion of the modernist spirit. Most of her public sculptures were an inspiration for great photography.

Barbara Hepworth with the plaster of Single Form 1961–4 at the Morris Singer foundry, London, May 1963

Barbara Hepworth with the plaster of ‘Single Form’ monumental bronze sculpture

Morris Singer foundry, London, May 1963

Photograph: Tate

 

 

Barbara Hepworth ‘Single Form’ (Memorial) (1961) Battersea park

Photo by Michael Gray (2008)

 

 

Barbara Hepworth,-Project Monument to the Spanish Civil War,-1938–39

Barbara Hepworth,- Project Monument to the Spanish Civil War

1938–39

 

 

Barbara Hepworth’s ‘Figure (Archaean)‘ 1959

Hakone Open Air Museum, 1970

 

Barbara Hepworth’s ‘Three Obliques (Walk In)’ 1968 installed beside Aristide Maillol’s ‘Action in Chains’ 1906

Hakone Open Air Museum, 1970

Hepworth Photograph Collection © Bowness, Hepworth Estate

 

‘Mother and Child’ – Barbara Hepworth

 

 

 

Outerbridge,-Paul-(1896-1958)---1932-Triumph-of-the-Egg

Paul Outerbridge — ‘Triumph of the Egg’

1922

 

 

Lynn Chadwick_Three sculptural candle holders

Lynn Chadwick  —  Three sculptural candle holders

 

 

Abstract-Photographs-by-Jan Hardisty

Jan Hardisty

 

 

Bust of a Woman was to measure 102 feet in height Carl Nesjar Picassocollaboration, a 100-foot concrete monument that would have dominated the campus of the University of

‘Bust of a Woman’ was to measure 102 feet in height as a Carl Nesjar and Pablo Picasso collaboration, The concrete monument that would have dominated the campus of the University of Florida, Tampa, never came to fruition.

 

 

 

Keramikas, Czechoslovakia

 

Šárka Piešová Keramikas, Czechoslovakia Quite song - a statue in the garden

‘Quite song’ – a ceramic statue in the garden – Šárka Piešová

Keramikas, Czechoslovakia

 

 

Borrowed Muse of the Temple of Niké---Keramikas

  ‘Borrowed Muse of the Temple of Niké’  ceramic lamp  —Šárka Piešová

Keramikas, Czechoslovakia

 

 

Drinker with a- window---the fluttering of the feathers---Keramikas

‘Drinker with a window’ —the fluttering of the feathers—Šárka Piešová

Keramikas, Czechoslovakia

 

 

Face of the girl-(even herbs)-Keramika

‘Face of the girl’  (even herbs) planter  –Šárka Piešová

Keramikas,, Czechoslovakia

 

Fairy Angel---Garden ceramics, statue, drinker

‘Fairy Angel’ —Garden ceramics, statue, drinker – Šárka Piešová

Keramikas,, Czechoslovakia

 

 

When the field whispers---a drop outdoor ceramic bird bath

‘When the field whispers—a drop’ –  outdoor ceramic bird bath  –  Šárka Piešová

Keramikas,, Czechoslovakia

 

 

With hope closer---ceramic garden sculpture

‘With hope closer ‘— ceramic garden sculpture  —   Keramika

 

 

 

Head-in-the-palms---ceramic-statue

‘Head in the palms’ — Šárka Piešová

Keramikas, Czechoslovakia

 

‘Eternity – Painted Terracotta Statue of Heavenly Guardian, Sleeping Muse’ – Xu Zhen

2016

 

Buddha-Photography-Art-Prints_Buddha Head High on Mountain Top Steve Poe

Buddha Head High on Mountain Top Steve Poe

 

Buddha-Art-Photography--A composite image of male divers flying over Buddhas head to illustrate dreams

 Composite image of male divers flying over Buddhas head to illustrate dreams – Steve Poe

 

 

Ceramic sculptures in a pond -- Daniel Rhodes

Ceramic sculptures in a pond — Daniel Rhodes

 

 

Starting a New Life by Simon Chidharara

‘Starting a New Life’ by Simon Chidharara

 

 

Shapely vintage fruit bowl

 

 

 

1 Comment

  1. Catherine
    Posted June 27, 2018 at 10:46 pm | Permalink

    I like the ‘Raining Stones’ for there happy look and I am checking the “paper clay” technic which I have never heard of. Thank you for all these beautiful “novelties” !

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