ARTISTS INCLUDE
Angela Jarman, Neil Wilkin, Michael Brennand-Wood, Tord Boontje, David Clarke, Junko Mori, Felicity Aylieff, Mary Rogers, Richard Slee
Continue reading BUD TO BLOOM │ Derby Museum & Art Gallery → 14 June 2015
“Dd y evr xpct t vizit a sramicsxbišn n b asct t brñ yr vînlc̣lẋn alñ wɖ y? Or t b invîtd t wōc ovr n dstrý wn v ɖ xibits?
Frajîl? šôcesz ɖ byti n dvrsti v cntmprri sramicspractis in its wîdist sens. It xplorz ɖ ātistc n xpresv psbltiz v sramic az a mtirı̣l, includñ ɖ contṛdiẋn btwn tu v its inhiṛnt qoḷtiz – dyṛbiḷti n fṛjiḷti.
Ɖ xbišn includz ci wrcs fṛm ɖ c̣lẋn v Amgueddfa Cymru – Našnl Myziym Wêlz, šôn alñsd mêjr, xîtñ insṭlešns cmišnd fṛm Fībi Cumñz, Cler Tūmi n Cīʈ Harisn. Ambišs ny wrcs bî for Wêlz-bêst ātists – Clér Crnīn, Woltr Cīlr, Lôri Dêvis n Adm Buic – wl b šôn tgɖr wɖ spešli-cmišnd filmz ɖt wl delv intu č mcr’z crietv prôses.
Frajîl? z jenṛsli fundd bî Ɖ Colwinstn Čaritbl Trust n ṣpwtd bî Ɖ Deric Wiłmz Trust.”
Continue reading FRAGILE? │ National Museum Cardiff → 4 October 2015
“Ɖ ātist’s old-êj comṗzišnz r magnifisntli simplifîd n mr gwjsli opyḷnt ɖn evr. (Fnanšl Tîmz, Êpṛl 2015)
Ɖs Sprñ ɖ Aḷn Cristīa Gaḷri wl unveil a ny siriz v wrcs, alñsd a ṣlct grūp v historic pêntñz, spanñ ɖ c̣rir v Jiłn Erz RA CBE, wn v Britn’z most rspctd n bst-luvd pêntrz. Nâ in hr 85ʈ yir, n aftr 65 yirz dedicetd t abstract āt, Erz cntinyz t pṛdys a cnsidṛbl bodi v wrc wɖ unsisñ vîbṛnsi n eṇji.
Dspled in ɖ gaḷrīspês in 34 Cwcstrīt wl b for lj-scêl pêntñz bî Erz spanñ 1959–97. Ɖ grūp includz Kmylî, undâtdli wn v hr most impwtnt pêntñz, n ɖ wn ẇč, az ɖ sentrpìs v ɖ Ātcaunsl’z 1960 seminl xbišn, Sičuešn, istablišt Erz’ repytešn. Ɖz for pêntñz três ɖ ivlušn v Erz’ stîl n acumplišmnts az a pêntr ovr ɖ frst 40 yirz v hr c̣rir. Pṛgresñ fṛm ɖ ŕli ys v ýl n riṗlin ʈroun n pord ontu wŭdn panlz twdz hr rīsnt ys v ʈic aplîd ýlpênt t criet clir n dfînd ejz n šêps, ɖz wrcs demnstret hâ Erz hz olwz fwjd hr ôn paʈ in a cmplitli orijinl we. Ɖz wrcs hv nvr bn ofrd fr seil bfr.
Erz’ ny pêntñz n wrcs on pêpr wl b xibitd in ɖ gaḷrīspês at 31 Cwcstrīt. Hr luv v culr n lît hz bn aproprietd fṛm ɖ načṛl wrld t criet wrcs fl v muvmnt. Dspt hr insistns on abstraẋn, rcuṛnt šêps in hr rīsnt wrc rmînd s v načṛl fnoṃna, sč az, petlz, wñz, fanz, līvz n starz, n ɖ tîtlz v wrcs drw on plêsnemz, nemz v flârz n fems gādnz, or most rīsntli ɖ vrsz v powts sč az Oscr Waild, Diḷn Toms n Wiłm Butlr Yêts. Erz hz cnsistntli md prints in nymṛs tecnīcs ovr ɖ yirz. A ṣlẋn v prints, includñ wŭdcuts, ečñz n hand-pêntd moṇprints, wl b dspled alñsd ɖ pêntñz.
Erz, hu stl spendz evri de in ɖ stydio, cntinyz t brêc ny grând wɖ pêntñz n prints ɖt r xūbṛnt, vigṛs n fl v culr n eṇji.”
(Posted 9 May 2015. The text is in an older version of Ñspel.)
“Venis-bêst siblñz Lâra de Santiyana n Aleșandro Diaz de Santiyana r inṭnašnli rnând ātists n dsndnts v ɖ Venīni glaswér diṇsti, istablišt bî Pâlo Venini on ɖ îḷnd v Murano in 1921. In Me 2015, ɖe brñ ɖer eḷgnt sculpčṛl fwmz n culrfl glas pêntñz t YSP’z rfrbišt 18ʈ senčri čapl in ɖer frst evr YC xibišn.
Xperimentešn, risc-têcñ n iṇvešn drîv ɖ de Santiyaṇz’ wrc, fed bî wîdspred travl n c̣laḅrešnz wɖ glasmêcñ xprts acrs ɖ wrld. Aleșandro’z inspirešn z wōtr, ẇč trnzlets t ɖ incredbl trītmnt v ɖ srfis in hiz wrcs, mni v ẇč hv a stroñ, pêntrli qoḷti. Ɖ YSP xibišn includz a siriz v wōl n flor wrcs bî ɖ ātist, wɖ a complex, dāc blac yt mirrd patina, rcwlñ ɖ sens v lcñ intu dīp, rflctñ pūlz.
Crušñ ɖ tipicl blôn silindr, foldñ it in on itslf, z a tecnīc ofn implýd bî Lâra de Santiyana t pṛdys slab-lîc fwmz ɖt r, in a sens, envlops f̣rvr sìld bî ɖ mcñ-prôses. Ɖ ātist rfŕz t ɖm az glasbcs, n ɖe rten a pârfl sens v sīmñ t cnten nolij held in sspenšn. In ɖ čapl, ɖ ātist šoz a lîbrri v ɖz fwmz, t ẇč š rtrnz hbičli, in spešli md bcšelvz.”
