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Wed 11 am – 8 pm,
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The international art fair for contemporary objects
Presented by the British Crafts Council
25.1-29.1.2008
V & A, London
http://collect.craftscouncil.org.uk/
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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.
Hand-built stoneware, 2007
hight 81cm
Photograph: Winfrid Zakowski |
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Pekka
Paikkari
(Born 1960, Finland)
For me human presence is the starting point of art. Clay is a flexible
material for -expression and as such contains the history of time.
As an artist I construct a never-ending story. Despite the physical
appearance of the art work, whether it is placed on the façade
of a building or is an installation consisting of several pieces,
the dialogue between the viewer and the work defines its final form.
Fractured Sheet V, 2007
Fired Clay
93 x 93 x 2 cm
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Kristina
Riska
(Born 1960, Finland)
One of my very first memories is a shadow moving on a white wall.
How the light comes in to the material fascinates me.
By cutting holes in to the walls I can make the object transparent.
Light comes through the holes and creates special illusion. The pieces
with no holes are as simple as possible. The surface is plain, no
glaze, only the clay and fingerprints - space for the light on the
material.
My technique is very slow - I build layer by layer. I wish this silent
concentration could be sensed in the object.
Bath, 2007
ceramic
Photograph: Rauno Träskelin
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Kim
Simonsson
(Born 1974, Finland)
I made my first sculpture out of snow in the backyard of my childhood
home.
I combine traditional -ceramic art with popular -culture phenomenon
in my large ceramic sculptures. For me the unusual is interesting.
Therefore I create my own strange world of characters that comment
on everyday life and its’ weirdness. The subject matters are
usually children, animals or hybrids. An important detail in my sculptures
are the eyes made out of glass that give the figures a life like appearence.
Authority in its’ many forms fascinates me and in my works I
want to reverse the common beliefs by making the weak powerful.
Steel Rabbit, 2007
Ceramic, glass, platinum, bondo
110 x 100 x 145 cm
Photograph: Kalle Kataila
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Caroline
Slotte
(Born 1975, Helsinki/Finland)
Objects from the private sphere intrigue me. Second hand-items have
a way of directing our gaze to the past. They are symbols of the life
stories of those who used them. These seemingly trivial everyday objects
link us with our past, they connect us with our history and effect
us emotionally.
Using ‘found’ material as a starting point for conceptual
works in ceramics, I’m exploring the links and tensions between
individuals, objects and the memories that these objects evoke.
Rose Border Multiple,
Double Blue II, 2007.
Reworked ceramic
second hand-material
Ø 28 cm
Photograph: Tuukka Paikkari
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Amazing
Animals / Mervi Kurvinen
(Born 1974, Finland)
Mervi Kurvinen is making contemporary jewellery, jewellery- like objects
and -installations . Her aim is to work conceptually with an open
mind with no need to classify herself into any -categories. She gets
inspiration from contradictions like combining something precious
and not valuable and loves kitschy objects that are not useful at
all in practise. Sense of humor plays an -important role in her work.
She thinks humor is very close to spirituality.
The Grandmother, 2006
ceramics, silver, pearls,
hand painted miniature (Tarja Häsä),
15 x 6 cm
Photograph: Kimmo Heikkilä
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Amazing
Animals / Kati Nulpponen
(Born 1974, Lappeenranta/Finland)
Nulpponen’s work comes close to contemporary visual art without
loosing its -character as jewellery.
She makes visible the -conditions of human -relations and rearranges
their -conventional rhythms. -Her works -explore the -differences
-between garment and -jewellery, between -femininity and masculinity,
between innocence and violence, and between me and you.
In Mourning Dress, 2006
cotton, silver, nylon,
satin (crocheting),
16 x 55 x 4,5 cm
Photograph: Jaan Seitsara |
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Amazing
Animals / Maria Nuutinen
(Born 1975, Lappeenranta/ Finland)
I enjoy myself around objects. I prefer old and ordinary things than
modern and new.
I love flea markets not -because of longing -nostalgia but for having
straight impulses. Toothmarks, broken pieces, missing parts and fading
colours are part of my life that keep my mind open and clear.
’First Aid Kit’, 2005 (detail) cotton wool, elastic band, fabric,
iron printed fabric, pins, plaster, plastic, plaster, metal, 22 x
17 x 5 cm
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