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ERNA
AALTONEN (Fi)
Ceramics
Keramiikka
Keramik
Hand-built stoneware, 2007
hight 81cm
Photograph: Winfrid Zakowski |
Erna
Aaltonen
(Born 1951, Loimaa/Finland)
My great concern as a ceramist is the simplicity and elegance of form.
I have chosen for my preoccupation the pot form, I find it abstract
and sculptural - in fact it is abstract sculpture. Another dimension
of the pot form - I find quite fascinating is the long role pots have
played and continue to play in -human -history. My forms are -hand-built
of strips of clay, a slow and deliberate process. By leaving the forms
with openings I have retained the inner space, to emphasize the genesis
of the form as a pot. Colour has fascinated me all my life. When I
began studying ceramics, it was the results that came from the kiln,
the glaze colours and structures, that hooked me and still continue
to keep me excited. The ceramic medium gives me the possibility to
bring together form, colour and surface structure in perfect unite.
My works have no other function than to be harmonious and beautiful.
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