Transformations
Johannes Nagel, vessels, 2011, porcelain. Foto Thomas Kümmel.
The Bavarian Arts & Crafts Association’s current exhibition entitled Transformations is dedicated to artistic crafts products from Saxony-Anhalt. However, none of the participants call themselves a craftsperson. They are artists or designers who create jewelry or fashion, who work with ceramic, paper or metal, who use traditional or new techniques or even invent new ones, some are painters, graphic artists or sculptors.
Due to the influence of the Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle, the arts scene in Saxony-Anhalt is characterized by a mutually enriching interchange between the artistic and the design-oriented disciplines. Design and/or manufacture are based on a crafting process. The “crafting” aspect, now appreciated again even in the liberal arts, often serves as an explicit means to an artistic end.
Christine Matthias, Brooch “Spange 7”, silver. Photo Udo W. Beier.
The exhibitors are: Cilly J. Buchheiser, Josefine Cyranka, Anna Maria Gawronski, Gritta Götze, Moritz Götze, Michael Krenz and Davia Bukowsky, Benjamin Kräher and Sebastian Shettler, Lydia in St. Petersburg/Susan Krieger, Jule Claudia Mahn, Jasmin Matzakow, Christine Matthias, Martin Möhwald, Johannes Nagel, Antje Scharfe and Cornelia Weihe.
Benjamin Kräher and Sebastian Schettler, Coat, Collection Transformers, 2011. Photo Marko Warmuth.
20.01.–25.02.2012
Gallery for the Applied Arts
Pacellistraße 6–8
80333 Munich
Phone +49 (0)89 290147-0,
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