MAESTROS DEL FUTURO, Castillo de San Jorge, Sevilla, Spain, March 22>May 31, 2023

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‘Masters of the Future. Crafts and Design in Europe’ is an event taking place at Castillo de San Jorge in Seville from 22 March to 31 May 2023, presented by Seville City Office and coordinated by the Contemporary Association of Arts and Crafts, with the support of BeCraft and the Michelangelo Foundation for Creativity and Craftsmanship. 

 

The exhibition is part of a larger movement celebrating craftsmanship, a movement that began in Venice in 2022 with ‘Homo Faber: Crafting a more human future’, specifically with the exhibition called ‘Next of Europe’. Since then, the Michelangelo Foundation co-created with BeCraft a Belgium-based event called ‘Creative Nature’ and is now in Seville for ‘Masters of the Future’. 

The exhibition is curated by Jean Blanchaert, gallery owner, art critic, writer and illustrator who was involved with the curation of ‘Next of Europe’, along with Irina Eschenazi (assistant curator) and Ramón Vergara (assistant curator for Spain). ‘Masters of the Future’ will showcase a total of 50 works that explore and exemplify contemporary master craftsmanship. The excellence of Sevillian and Andalusian savoir-faire will be represented by a selection of international and Spanish artisans.

 

CREATIVE NATURE, Becraft, Mons, Belgium, November 19, 2022 > February 12, 2023

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BECRAFT EXPO GRANDE HALLE DES ANCIENS ABATTOIRS, MONS, BELGIUM
Commissariat : Jean Blanchaert assisté par Irina Eschenazi
Scénographie : Evelyne Gilmont

Une exposition collective avec le soutien de la Michelangelo Foundation.

Réservoir (de savoir), le vase, le bol, l’amphore,… revêt une fonction primitive, étroitement liée à la Nature et à la nature des Hommes. Le contenant renferme tout ce qui est de matière, de denrées, d’Histoire et d’Humanité. Creative Nature propose cette rencontre entre Nature créative et créativité du geste. Évoqués ou formels, ces concepts s’illustrent par une centaine d’objets réinterprétés par les métiers d’arts contemporains de la céramique, du verre, de l’orfèvrerie, du bois, du textile, exploitant parfois de nouveaux matériaux tels que le silicone ou les matières organiques… autant de créations faisant appel à la maîtrise du geste et appelant résolument à questionner le monde.

Abundance of her delicacies, 2021, H 75x63x56cm, ceramics, ©peterclaeys

HIGH FIRED, Galerie Franzis Engels, Amsterdam, NL, September 01>October 15, 2022

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HIGH FIRED A groupshow HIGH FIRED at Galerie Franzis Engels: Anne Marie Laureys Ceramics, Deirdre McLoughlin, Eileen Cohen Sussholz, Joke Raes, Marga Knaven, Marja Kennis, Nathalie Campion en Reinier Lagendijk.

On Saturday 03.09.2022, Wendy Gers (Curator of Modern and Contemporary Ceramics, Keramiekmuseum Princessehof) will officially open the exhibition at 16.00 hrs. You are welcome!

Ceramics is hot! And not only because it is fired so hot, but especially because it is such a fantastic material with almost inexhaustible possibilities for making a sculpture. Techniques and forms of expression are almost limitless. From white as snow to ink black and all the colours in between, matt or glossy, figurative or abstract, traditional, rough or very delicate, whatever an artist dreams up (and these are often very exceptional sculptures) everything seems possible with clay and porcelain. Clay and porcelain are magical materials that, under the hands of the artist, transform from an unformed lump into wonderful sculptures.

SOLID SOIL, duoshow with Stefan Peeters Galerie 10a, Otegem, Belgium til June 19, 2022

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From May 14 to June 19, we invite you to the expo Solid Soil where we present clay sculptures by Anne Marie Laureys Ceramics along with paintings by Stefan Peters.

It is the first time that the Hasselt-based painter Stefan Peters can be seen at Gallery 10a. Anne Marie Laureys Ceramics previously had a duoshow with photographer Nick Geboers during the expo Høst.

The primal element of earth in the title Solid Soil is easily connected to both artists. Anne Marie Laureys literally starts from earth and transforms thrown clay vessels into sculptures with a very special texture. Through various firing phases, the sculptures acquire a granular and distinct structure with shifting color tones that never fail to amaze.

This tactility for the material is also present in the paintings of Stefan Peters. Through the intensity of the brushstrokes you get a suggestion of recognizable natural elements.

IN THE ROUND, Unit London, UK til April 23,2022

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Unit London is excited to present its first group exhibition dedicated solely to visual art in three dimensions. In The Round places the mediums of sculpture and ceramics at centre stage, drawing on a vast global and cross-cultural history. Human beings have crafted sculptural objects for many millennia, and these objects have come to slip between practical, domestic, religious, cultural and artistic definitions. The exhibition aims to showcase these diverse sculptural mediums, which have perhaps played a secondary role to works on canvas in the contemporary artworld.

In The Round decisively brings sculpture to the fore, championing the physicality of the medium and demonstrating its continuing pertinence for modern audiences. In this sense, In The Round celebrates the fluidity of sculpture and ceramics. The exhibition questions the rigidity of past canonical sculptural parameters by emphasising the freedom of process and material that three-dimensions can allow. In The Round strives to chart the flexibility of sculptural materials that can metamorphose from something tactile and malleable into something durable and solid, while still maintaining a sense of movement and mutability.

SYNONYMES D’OBJETS, ELEVEN STEENS, BRUSSELS, BELGIUM, til April 10, 2022

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Dans le cadre de l’exposition “Matières premières”, le Centre d’art contemporain ELEVEN STEENS invite BeCraft a occuper le troisième plateau pour y exposer ses artistes membres.

 

Les courants passent, évoluent. Toujours, les artistes s’imprègnent de ce qui a été. Ils reformulent, regardent autrement, proposent un “ce qui semble” mais qui n’est plus – ou qui est, différent. Ils repensent, recyclent, détournent, ennoblissent.

C’est là toute la puissance des Arts appliqués contemporains. Baignés dans les – lointaines – racines du fonctionnel, les artistes s’en libèrent ou s’en inspirent pour parfaire le monde, le questionner, le défier. Par la diversité de matières, de techniques, et le riche héritage des métiers d’Arts, c’est un univers vaste et en constante évolution qui s’offre au regard de tous.

Les artistes membres de BeCraft, issus de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, démontrent ici des savoir-faire contemporains dans les domaines de la céramique, du verre, du textile, du bijou, du papier, jusqu’aux matériaux non-conventionnels.

Abstraites, organiques, subtiles, leurs œuvres exposées détournent pour mieux voir, réinventent pour mieux penser. 

 

Ils exposent : 

Myriam A. Goulet, Mylène Auquière, Studio Biskt, Aurore de Heusch, Chantal Delporte, Dolorès Gossye, Anne Goy, La Gadoue, Laure Kasiers, Machteld Lambeets, Anne Marie Laureys, Claire Lavendhomme, Jean-Claude Legrand, Myriam Louyest, Antonino Spoto, Nelly Van Oost et Clémentine Vaultier

 

DISTORTED DUETS, USINE KUGLER, GENEVA, CH, October 7>17, 2021

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Distorted Duets showcased the work of five contemporary photographers alongside sculptural works by Taste Contemporary gallery artists.

Since its establishment in 2012, Taste Contemporary has championed ceramic and glass art. In this exhibition, presented at the industrial setting of Fonderie Kugler, we introduced audiences familiar with each genre to the possibilities that exist within the others. 

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PRIVATE COLLECTION SELECTED BY #3 HANS VANDEKERCKHOVE, TATJANA PIETERS GALLERY GHENT, BELGIUM til August 29, 2021

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Tatjana Pieters Gallery Ghent, Belgium 

Private Collection Selected by #3 / Hans Vandekerckhove selects from the collection of Paul & Marie-Rose Declercq – Benoot from June 18 – August 28, 2021

Closing Drink Saturday, August 28, 2-6 pm.

Interested in the process of collecting as a reflection/expression of the owner’s identity, we are pleased to present the third edition of ‘Private Collection Selected By’, a collaboration where gallery artist, Hans Vandekerckhove, selects works from a collection of which he is also a part to bring it into an ensemble with available works of its own. This time we invited Hans Vandekerckhove (BE, 1957) to select works from the collection of Paul & Marie-Rose Declercq- Benoot, which focus on historical as well as emerging and contemporary Belgian art.
Gallery view.

THIS IS THE SOUND OF C, Curator Kris Campo, CC ZWANEBERG, HEIST O/D BERG, BELGIUM til May 30, 2021

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Curator Kris Campo has a reputation for making idiosyncratic choices and surprising combinations. In ‘This is the sound of C’, she brings together the work of eight contemporary artists from Belgium and abroad, averse to any ‘pigeonholing’. She combines figurative sculptures with whirling ceramic pottery and textile and painting in expressive scenes. In doing so, she indicates that the conventional classification of art forms on the basis of discipline or material is of little importance. What counts is the expression and the impact of the sculptures created by the artist.

Participating artists: Johannes Nagel, Anne Marie Laureys, Babs Haenen, Clémence van Lunen, Coline Rosoux, Klaas Rommelaere, Michel Gouéry and Robin Vermeersch.

INFO: CC ZWANEBERG