Red Hot - Contemporary Ceramics
at Villa Rot
Germany
Villa Rot, a small museum in southern Germany, is hosting an exhibition Rot Hot - Ceramics in Contemporary Art. This show brings together artworks from artists around the world, including Ai Weiwei and Andrew Livingstone.
From the museum:
Since the beginning of modern times the hierarchies, limits and genres of art have dissolved. Nowadays all areas of human creativity belong to the fields of art. In 2008 the Museum Villa Rot started with a range of topics in exhibitions that have given attention to the reception of historical folk arts and the renewal of traditional techniques at the interface between applied and liberal art. In this context the exhibition deals with the newly woken up interest in the work with clay and the production of ceramic which belongs to the oldest crafts of mankind.
Ceramic is an ancient material and familiar for fine art. On its way to the presence it became an excluded, marginal medium. At the same time it was used by artists - on search for an artistic renewal - as strategic material for overcoming formal limits and traditional contents.
Since the modern age loam, the basic material seems to work as archaic culture reservoir. The exhibition goes far beyond the traditional understanding of ceramic: It shows contemporary positions which appear as wall objects, sculptures and exten-sive room installations. And it broachs the intercultural interest in the material clay as a central issue.
Artists include:
Ai Weiwei (China) | Ivan Albreht (USA) | Richard Deacon (Great-Britain) | Anke Eilergerhard (Germany) | Louise Hindsgavl (Denmark) | Leiko Ikemura (Japan) | Uwe Karlsen (Germany/Switzerland) | Markus Karstieß (Germany) | Bodo Korsig (Germany/USA) | Andrew Livingstone (Great-Britain) | Otto Piene (USA) | Edith Plattner (Italy/Germany) | Norbert Prangenberg (Germany) | Thomas Schütte (Germany) | Anne Wenzel (Netherlands)
'The Wave 3' by Ai Weiwei
'Things Done for Love #2' Louise Hindsgavl
