08 10 / 2011
Tanoue Shinya: KARA 09: Kan, 2009, Glazed clay, 22” x 22 3/4” x 22” (h)
/ Keiko Gallery - Japanese artists
06 7 / 2011
By Ken Price (one of my favorites) “Eeezo” 1995-2009 Fired and painted clay 20 x 24 x 17 inches
05 7 / 2011
What will the last piece of art ever to be made by a human look like before we disappear from the face of the earth? With this question in mind, 31-year-old Argentinian artist Adrián Villar Rojas created his imposing installation at the (current) 54th Venice Biennale (June 4, 2011 – November 27, 2011). Located in a privileged space at the Artigliere in the very heart of the Arsenale, his project consists of a group of oversized site-specific sculptures made of clay over a framework of cement, burlap and wood; the ‘larger than life’ installation is enigmatically entitled “The Murderer of Your Heritage.”
03 5 / 2011
ROUND THOUGHTS n. 4 / 2001 / 6 x 6 x 6 cm / Etna’s lava, clay: I incorporated clay into fragments of newborn rocks formed by lava from Mount Etna. They emerged as a series of mental concretions, nodules of the mineral world, seeds of nature transformed into “seeds of thought.” In this blurring of the boundary between the natural and the manmade, I sense the feelings of the human, mineral, and plant world. Shinji Turner-Yamamoto Castelmola, Sicily - December 2001
27 2 / 2011
"Judgment in art cannot be other than intuitive and founded upon sense experience, on what Kawai calls ‘the body’. No process of reasoning can be a substitute for or widen the range of our intuitive knowledge."
09 6 / 2010
FROM CLAY TO MARBLE: THE PROCESS : Thom Puckey
Sculpture in clay to making molds to casting in plaster to carving in marble… Loving the process. <3
05 6 / 2010
If you make a crazy amazing piece out of PlayDoh or Legos or crayons, I’m pretty sure the viewer isn’t standing there thinking “That medium is so second grade.” When I said I wanted the work to be taken seriously, it was more about the content that I had previously shown. I didn’t want it to just be about all the cute characters – it was important to me for the viewer to see there was something deeper going on.
- Interview with Meredith Dittmar via Juxtapox Magazine
