tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7192227531617038362.post4701264085514245708..comments2024-03-18T13:21:38.338+00:00Comments on A Place Called Space: British Ceramics Biennial, 2013 - installationsEirenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05350820845130506117noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7192227531617038362.post-9056253573348943592013-11-12T17:53:16.780+00:002013-11-12T17:53:16.780+00:00Potlatch is my favourite too. There were two more ...Potlatch is my favourite too. There were two more pieces by Jane Cairns but the photographs came out all fuzzy - I must have moved as I was taking them - and I was really sorry about that. I also liked her artist's statement.<br /><br />Lumen was fun and I really liked Christie Brown's and you're right, it is like Ana Maria Pacheco's work - I am a real fan and loved the exhibition I saw of her work in Coventry many years ago. I have never seen any of Juan Munoz' work 'in the flesh' so to speak.<br /><br />It was an exhausting day. By the time we got to the Gallery and Museum we were very tired but then the work there was so stimulating that we sort of revived. No energy to look at their permanent collection though, even though I would have liked to have looked at the Lowrys properly. The ceramics collection is very good as you would expect in Stoke, but again, no energy. And, of course, we had the two hour drive ahead of us....I always look forward to the Ceramics Biennial though, as I know it's going to be an excellent day.Eirenehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05350820845130506117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7192227531617038362.post-37712787611046890412013-11-12T14:32:14.824+00:002013-11-12T14:32:14.824+00:00I find Potlatch the most moving piece, because it ...I find Potlatch the most moving piece, because it is the artist's response having worked through any direct 'memorial' of what used to be in the buildings. It is a piece which would work anywhere, and we only know that it is a response to the site because the artist said so.<br /><br />The installations are most thought-provoking, and you must have been thoroughly mentally exhausted by the end of the visit. Just considering them superficially is work enough.<br /><br />The pieces which call to me immediately, apart from Potlatch, which I really love - and I like her Forgotten Function pieces on her website, are Lumen by Jo Aylmer - although I'm left rather cold by the work on her website, and Sleepover by Christie Brown. I have long been a fan of Christie Brown's work, and regret to say that I was not as drawn to this piece as to previous ones. Maybe I needed to be there - but the forms still interest me, nonetheless. I do like that kind of group of figures that one walks through or round - rather like the work of Juan Munoz, or Ana Maria Pacheco.<br /><br />Thank you for all these images to think about.Olga Norrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10554469124546960971noreply@blogger.com