An exhibition by Elissa Armstrong at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art features a surreal ceramics that evokes the Baroque ceramics of Melbourne. Curator Elizabeth Dunbar is quoted, “The free-form abstraction of plaster, the gaudiness of glitter, and the sentimentality of childhood figurines all combine to push the boundaries of ceramics to their limits, and ultimately, transcend them.”" The works sound quite amazing, but why talk of transcending boundaries? The pieces may speak for the power of ceramics to express particular sensibilities and it is the boundaries of ceramics that may partly enable that - the boundaries between art and design, art and kitsch, ceramics and photography, etc.
Saturday, 8 July 2006
Beyond ceramic boundaries
An exhibition by Elissa Armstrong at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art features a surreal ceramics that evokes the Baroque ceramics of Melbourne. Curator Elizabeth Dunbar is quoted, “The free-form abstraction of plaster, the gaudiness of glitter, and the sentimentality of childhood figurines all combine to push the boundaries of ceramics to their limits, and ultimately, transcend them.”" The works sound quite amazing, but why talk of transcending boundaries? The pieces may speak for the power of ceramics to express particular sensibilities and it is the boundaries of ceramics that may partly enable that - the boundaries between art and design, art and kitsch, ceramics and photography, etc.
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