The exhibition Paradigm consists of works by 18 Norwegian artists working in glass, ceramics and metals. They are Ulla-Mari Brantenberg, Vidar Koksvik, Karen Klim, David Calder, Linnea Calder, Pål Vigeland, Heidi Sand, Leif Stangebye-Nielsen, Liv Midbøe, Marit Tingleff, Svein Thingnes, Sidsel Hanum, Tove Lise Røkke Olsen, Tulla Elieson, Jens Erland, Ruta Pakarklyte, Gunnar Thorsen and Irene Nordli. The curator of the exhibition is Lars Sture. Design Flanders is welcoming this group of artists and starts, after consult Lars Sture, for the presentation of this exhibition in Design Flanders Gallery a dialogue with artworks of Belgian artists.

www.norwegiancrafts.no, www.designvlaanderen.be

Groupshow of Contemporary Ceramics by Reinhilde Van Grieken, Ester Stasse, Kaat Pauwels, Barbara Nanning, en AnneMarie Laureys. Curator Dirk Schrijvers, AD Gallery&Consultancy, Grote Koraalberg 17, B-2000 Antwerp, Belgium.

International Ceramic symposium organized by The Association of Polish Artists and Designers in Walbrzych.A selection of international and Polish artists will be meeting and working together in porcelain factories in Walbrzych. There are two exhibitions following the symposium: in Walbrzych Museum and in The Glass and Ceramics Gallery in Wroclaw.For me this is an experiment the first time i will be working in porcelain…

Group show at the site of the old slaughterhouse, home of the office and exhibition gallery of the WCC-Bf,Rue de la Trouille 17/2, Mons, B.

A duo presentation of Anne Marie Laureys with the ceramics art work of P.V.(collection experiment  HITTE/HEAT 2011).

The WCC-BF site also hosts the international exhibition of selected and awarded art work for the Euorpean Prize of Applied Arts 2012, Rue de la Trouille, Mons, B

One of the selected artists in the EPAA is Hanneke Van Hage with Fever a work that was the result of the HEAT/HITTE experiment 2011, with exhibition automn 2011 in Ghent .

AnneMarie Laureys explores for HEAT, the possibilities of what seems impossible. During this Masterclass she illustrates her approach with a focus on the creation of her recent ceramics.

She throws archetypical forms on the wheel. Yet, the plasticity of the material invites her to go beyond the thrown wall. To meet her sensual involvement with the material she tests and explores its physical boundaries.After altering a series of forms she assembles them to create an organic abstraction as an open invitation to feel the constraint tension, to discover the vivacity and the altered touch.These ceramic objects have a dynamic sensuality that pushes the malleability of the ceramic medium and the fluidity of the glazes to the extreme.

http://www.ccstrombeek.be/programma/3363/masterclass-keramiek/met-anne-marie-laureys

Kunst RAI presents both renowned names and promising talent. This year, the international selection committee selected almost 80 galleries. This prestigious fair hosts a wide range of quality and variety of fine art, design and contemporary crafts represented by galleries of the Netherlands.

 http://www.kunstrai.nl/detail_deelnemer.php?d=24&lan=nl

De KunstRAI wordt gepositioneerd als brede, nationale kunstbeurs voor hedendaagse autonome en toegepast kunst: een publieksbeurs met circa 75 deelnemers die de diversiteit, kwaliteit en pluriformiteit van het rijke Nederlandse aanbod van beeldende kunst, vormgeving en design weerspiegelt.

At Collect London 2012, the World Crafts Council of Belgium, Francophone presents recent work of Caroline Andrin,, Nilton Cunha, Vincent Kempenaers, Anne Marie Laureys, Thérèse Lebrun, Jean Claude Legrand, Hugo Meert, Antonio Spotto.  All the artists will attend the Salon Collect London, 2012.

http://www.craftscouncil.org.uk/collect/

More to see at : www.wcc-bf.org

Good news: a brand new book by Edmund De Waal. My work selected by Mino Japan, 2011 is on the cover  of and in the book together with Halima Cassell, Bente Sjkottgaard, Akiyama Yo and many other ceramic artists from past and present.

The most comprehensive and accessible A to Z overview of ceramics from all periods in print.

‘This book is like an installation where the arrangement of illustrations makes the reader look with surprised attentiveness’ V&A magazine

a wonderful new book… by the presiding genius of modern studio ceramics, Edmund de Waal. …a treasure house containing over 300 beautiful full-page plates. … informative’ RA magazine

www.phaidon.com

Anne Marie Laureys invites artists out of the fine and applied arts, not into ceramics, to work in her studio during several months to try out new ideas into clay.  The exhibition of these unusual results will take place at a well known ceramic gallery and private museum in Ghent, Belgium. Most of the art works are made in dialogue with the medieval rooms and eclectic modern new spaces build on … A great opportunity for several participants in this exhibition is the confrontation with lots of remarkable objects from the historic private collection of  the owner with their recent creations…

Jos Devriendt, Hilde De Decker, Frans Gentils, Hanneke Van Hage, Patrick Vanhuffel, Anne Marie Laureys work out objects and atmospheres different from what the public is used to see in this gallery!

Didier Van de Steene is writing an essay about HITTE/HEAT!

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