Exhibition

A Legacy in Clay: The Ceramics of Pablo Picasso in Return to Earth

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Presented September 21, 2013.

'Pablo Picasso: Life with Art' – Dakin Hart, Senior Curator, The Noguchi Museum, New York

In this presentation Dakin Hart explores Picasso’s transition to ceramic practice after World War Two. Tracing the personal, social and political factors which lead to Picasso’s desire to create objects which merged both sculpture and painting to create a visual legacy which would withstand the test of time.

Organized to coincide with the public opening of the exhibition 'Return to Earth: Ceramic Sculpture of Fontana, Melotti, Miró, Noguchi, and Picasso, 1943–1963', this symposium offers a number of new perspectives on the often-overlooked, yet ground-breaking work in fired clay of some of the most important artists of the 20th century.

Watch other presentation from the 'Return to Earth' Symposium:
'Joan Miró and the Artigases: A Phantasmagoric World of Living Monsters' – Jed Morse, Chief Curator, Nasher Sculpture Center

'Isamu Noguchi Ceramics: A Kind of Antisculpture' – Catherine Craft, Adjunct Assistant Curator for Research and Exhibitions, Nasher Sculpture Center

'A View from Today': Panel Discussion

Since 2006, Dakin Hart has been a prolific independent curator and researcher. Recent projects have included an unconventional retrospective of work by the American Fluxus, mail, and book artist Davi Det Hompson, on view at the ZieherSmith Gallery, New York, through March 2, 2013; and 'Sculpture in So Many Words: Text Pieces 1960–1980', which was presented at the Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas in 2013. From 2007–2010, he worked with Picasso scholar John Richardson to develop a series of exhibitions for Gagosian Gallery exploring aspects of Picasso’s career. From 2006–2007, he was research assistant for Mr. Richardson on the third volume of the latter’s ongoing biography of Picasso, 'A Life of Picasso Vol. III: The Triumphant Years'. He has contributed a catalogue essays on Picasso, for the 'Return to Earth'. Dakin Hart has served as Assistant Director, Nasher Sculpture Center (2002–2004); Director of Arts Programs and Artistic Director, Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga, CA (2000–2002); and Director of the Lucas Artist Residency Program, the third oldest artists’ community in the U.S. (2002). He was Assistant to the Director of The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco from 1995–2000. Dakin Hart earned his B.A. in English, with a minor in art history, from Georgetown University, and an M.A. in the history of art from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, where he is presently working to complete his PhD (dissertation in process; projected 2013).

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Points of Departure: Haniwa

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Points of Departure: Treasures of Japan from the Brooklyn Museum

March 7, 2014–June 8, 2014

"Haniwa"

Join Japan Society Gallery Director Miwako Tezuka as she guides viewers through time and space to explore Japanese art, culture, and history using works from Points of Departure: Treasures of Japan from the Brooklyn Museum as signposts along the way. For this journey you won't need a map, compass, or even a plane ticket! In this final installment, Dr. Tezuka examines two clay figurines known as haniwa. These two figures are almost 1,400 years old!

"A radically reorienting show…gives you a new way to navigate Japanese art." – The New York Times

Points of Departure: Treasures of Japan from the Brooklyn Museum is organized by Japan Society in collaboration with the Brooklyn Museum.

Music: "Takeda no Komoriuta" performed by Yoko Reikano Kimura and Hikaru Tamaki

Jean-Nicolas Gérard: “The Potter’s Potter” film about French slipware potter

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This documentary follows French slipware potter Jean-Nicolas Gérard as he prepares for his 2013 exhibition at the Goldmark Gallery.

Jean-Nicolas describes himself as an artisan craftsman who, above all, wants his pottery to be used and enjoyed. His work ranges from small mugs, bowls, plates and dishes to large jars and press moulded platters. All are decorated with slip and many with sgraffito and finger marks. He takes the tradition of European slipware and infuses it with elements from modern painting, medieval earthenware and Japanese pottery. In the film we watch him throwing, glazing and decorating and explore the influences that nature and his surrounding landscape have on his pottery.

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Biography – Jean-Nicolas Gérard was born in Brazzaville (Congo) in 1954 and returned to France in 1961. He started studying ceramics in 1978 and was Jean Biagini's student at École des Beaux-Arts in Aix-en-Provence. He also trained with Claire Bogino. Often labelled the potters' potter Gerard's work has a spontaneity that so many strive for.

Gérard's work has now gained international acclaim and he has exhibited all over the world, including America, Australia, China and Japan. He is one of those rare potters who brings genuine life and gusto to contemporary slipware, investing the tradition of terre vernissée with a fresh and expressive energy unlike any other.

What is Goldmark?

A family business started by Mike Goldmark, we've been selling art from the Goldmark Gallery in Uppingham, UK for over 40 years and hold over 50,000 items in stock. Explore a wide range of the very best art and ceramics available to you through our website where you'll also find scholarship pages, books, online catalogues and even GoldmarkTV! Enjoy your visit here:

BROKEN MAGIC | The Work of Arthur Gonzalez | episode 2

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Episode 2 of 9.

Arthur Gonzalez is an internationally exhibiting artist with over fifty one-person shows in the last forty years, including eight in Manhattan, New York, and a four-time National Endowment for the Arts fellow. His sculptures and paintings are in numerous public collections including the Museum of Modern Ceramic Art in Gifu, Japan, the Smithsonian Archives of American Art, the Oakland Museum of California and the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento. He is a tenured Professor at the California College of the Arts.

This series is the work of Bay Area filmmaker Isaac Pingree, a producer and director of both feature films and short form content. Over the past fifteen years, Isaac’s eclectic output has played in festivals across the country from San Francisco’s Another Hole in the Head Film Festival to New York City’s Wildlife Conservation Film Festival, and his features have been distributed internationally. Isaac’s most recent feature length documentary is about the late singer/songwriter Bob Frank, distributed by Light In the Attic Records, it has been praised in the Nashville Scene, Spin Magazine, Goldmine Magazine, Mojo Magazine, Aquarium Drunkard, and Ugly Things.

The collaboration for this series began in 2014 when Arthur invited Isaac to his Alameda art studio to show Isaac the early stages of an attempt to reconstruct a sculpture that had smashed into hundreds of pieces. The production began that day and the intermittent filming continued over the next 7 years, as Isaac followed Arthur to exhibits, classrooms, and all around his studio. The series delves into the process and philosophy that sustains and undergirds Arthur’s immense body of work. While Arthur’s work has been described as “dark, somber and foreboding,” the documentary’s tone alternates between meditative and instructional, and we hope the series is an accessible and inspiring look into the day-to-day work of a singular ceramic artist.