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.
John Ward ceramics exhibition at Loewe
Chance Encounters-III
Chance Encounters III–Installation of ceramics by John Ward
John Ward ceramics-Loewe Foundation Miami
John Ward ceramics-Loewe Foundation Miami
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
Sara Flynn, Loewe, Miami
Sara Flynn installation at
Loewe, Miami
John Ward pottery Loewe Chance Encounters 3
Sara Flynn
Sara Flynn
John Ward — Chance Encounters II
John Ward — Loewe @ art basel
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 — ‘Quart Creixent’ (Waning Crescent) sculptures – Exhibition by Erskine, Hall and Coe
Photography by Andy Stagg
Ceramic sculptures – ‘Quart Creixent’ by Claudi Casanovas
Claudi Casanovas — ‘Waning Crescent’ contemporary ceramic sculpture
Exhibition by Erskine, Hall and Coe
Photography by Andy Stagg
Claudi Casanovas, ‘Pop’ (Octopus), stoneware sculpture
2017
Claudio Casanovas sculpture
Photography by Andy Stagg
Claudi Casanovas — ‘Serposa’ (Serpent) – Stoneware
2017
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 paper clay suspended lamps
Handmade collection by Paola Paronetto – ‘Cartocci, Colori, Terra’
Handmade paper ceramic collection by Paola Paronetto
Paola Paronetto
Paola Paronetto
Paola Paronetto – Cartocci, Tulipani ribbed paper clay vessels
Paola Paronetto — ‘Cartocci Colori Terra’
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Paola Paronetto
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
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.
Photo – Jayme Odgers
Mocad
Photo – Jayme Odgers
Mocad
Photo – Jayme Odgers
Mocad
Almine Rech Gallery
Anselm Reyle, ‘Laguna Sunrise’
Anselm Reyle, ‘Laguna Sunrise’
Anselm Reyle, ‘Laguna Sunrise’
Almine Rech Gallery, Brussels
Anselm Reyle, ‘Laguna Sunrise’
Almine Rech Gallery, Brussels
Nicolette Johnson
Ceramic cup — Decembrance 2017 by Catherine White
Decembrance 2017 by Catherine White
Decembrance 2017 by 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’ 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’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
Paul Outerbridge — ‘Triumph of the Egg’
1922
Lynn Chadwick — Three sculptural candle holders
Jan Hardisty
‘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
‘Quite song’ – a ceramic statue in the garden – Šárka Piešová
Keramikas, Czechoslovakia
‘Borrowed Muse of the Temple of Niké’ ceramic lamp —Šárka Piešová
Keramikas, Czechoslovakia
‘Drinker with a window’ —the fluttering of the feathers—Šárka Piešová
Keramikas, Czechoslovakia
‘Face of the girl’ (even herbs) planter –Šárka Piešová
Keramikas,, Czechoslovakia
‘Fairy Angel’ —Garden ceramics, statue, drinker – Šárka Piešová
Keramikas,, Czechoslovakia
‘When the field whispers—a drop’ – outdoor ceramic bird bath – Šárka Piešová
Keramikas,, Czechoslovakia
‘With hope closer ‘— ceramic garden sculpture — Keramika
‘Head in the palms’ — Šárka Piešová
Keramikas, Czechoslovakia
‘Eternity – Painted Terracotta Statue of Heavenly Guardian, Sleeping Muse’ – Xu Zhen
2016
Buddha Head High on Mountain Top Steve Poe
Composite image of male divers flying over Buddhas head to illustrate dreams – Steve Poe
Ceramic sculptures in a pond — Daniel Rhodes
‘Starting a New Life’ by Simon Chidharara
Shapely vintage fruit bowl