BIENNALE OF
CERAMICS IN CONTEMPORARY ART
Asger Jorn
modeling the large Aarhus' panel in clay. Fabbrica San Giorgio,
Albisola, 1959.
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1st International Meeting: The Local Ceramics Tradition and the
Globalization of Contemporary Art
19/20 October, 2002
Priamàr Fortress, Palazzo della Sibilla, Savona (Italy)
Organized by:
attese
(non for profit cultural association)
email info@attese.it / attese@iol.it
http://www.attese.it
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BIENNALE OF CERAMICS IN CONTEMPORARY ART
1st International Meeting: The Local Ceramics Tradition and the
Globalization of Contemporary Art
19/20 October, 2002
Priamàr Fortress, Palazzo della Sibilla, Savona (Italy)
THE MEETING:
During the 1st International Meeting, founders and artistic directors
Tiziana Casapietra and Roberto Costantino together with the team of
co-curators and the art historians involved with the special projects
will
present the developments of the 2nd edition of the Biennial of Ceramics
in
Contemporary Art.
Among the panelists: René Block (Director of the Kunsthalle
Fridericianum, Kassel); Nelson Herrera Ysla (Founder of
the Wifredo Lam
Center and the Havana Biennial, Cuba); Vasif Kortun
(Director of the
Museum Proje4L and of the Platform Garanti, Istanbul); Young Chul
Lee
(Artistic Director of the 2nd Gwangju Biennial and of the 2nd Pusan
Biennial, Korea); Gianfranco Maraniello (Independent
curator, MACRO,
Rome); Olu Oguibe (Artist and co-curator Biennale of
Ceramics in
Contemporary Art, 2nd edition); Bili Bidjocka, Wang Du
(Artists, Biennale
of Ceramics in Contemporary Art, 2nd edition)
THE BIENNALE:
The inspiration of the Biennale of Ceramics in Contemporary Art lies in
the 20th century avant-garde tradition that, in its most significant
phases, found an outlet for expression in this area of Western Liguria
well known for its long-established ceramics manufacture. Departing from
the numerous noteworthy traces left in the region and amongst the local
ceramics firms by artists of the calibre of Arturo Martini, Lucio
Fontana,
Asger Jorn, Wifredo Lam, Piero Manzoni and Pinot Gallizio, the objective
of the Biennial of Ceramics in Contemporary Art is that of once again
bringing artists, curators, art historians and critics with established
international reputations into contact with this local tradition.
Invited
by the artistic directors and a team of international curators, the
artists involved will be asked to abandon their customary media, be it
painting or the latest technology, in order to design and develop works
in
ceramics in collaboration with local firms. Between April 2002 and March
2003 the invited artists will follow one another in the ceramics
factories, working with local craftsmen to produce the works that will
be
presented in the 2nd edition of the Biennale of Ceramics in Contemporary
Art due to be held in the summer of 2003 at Savona, Vado Ligure,
Albisola
Superiore and Albissola Marina.
The Biennial of Ceramics in Contemporary Art is seen as a
work-in-progress
that invites the protagonists of the new global and multicultural arts
scene to filter their identities through the magical and archaic medium
of
ceramics. In experimenting with multicultural encounters and exchanges,
the Biennial of Ceramics in Contemporary Art is taking a positive stance
against the prevailing trend towards cultural uniformity on a global
scale
and reinterprets the territorial context as a ³glocal² space of flux
and
connection within a process of reciprocal metamorphosis.
Organized by:
attese
(non for profit cultural association)
email info@attese.it / attese@iol.it
http://www.attese.it
Promoters:
Fondazione "A. De Mari" Cassa di Risparmio di Savona
Comune di Savona
Comune di Vado Ligure
Comune di Albisola Superiore
Comune di Albissola Marina
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