WFC An International Collection of Wood-fired and Sculptural Ceramics 薪窯陶芸と彫刻陶芸 インターナショナル・コレクション Een Internationale Collectie van Houtgestookte en Beeldhouwtechnieken Keramiek Une Collection Internationale du Feu de Bois et Céramique Sculptural ????????????
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Featured Artist 特選 陶芸家 Kunstenaar Voorgekomen Artiste Décrit



Göteborg, Sweden
Force, movement, and a restless desire to constantly move forward has been distinguishing qualities in the rapid artistic development of Helena Andersson, since she graduated in 1998. The graduate exhibition, consisting of a group of softly arched wall reliefs in grogged earthenware with glazes in mild hues, gave only a hint of what was yet to come. In her debut exhibition a year later, the surfaces of the reliefs were broken up, and now had craters and valleys and careening rims, as if they could no longer withstand the inner or outer pressure. The expressive forms hung very closely on a smooth wall, eagerly communicating with one another, in contrasty interplay. In Helena Andersson´s latest works, the sculptures´outward movement towards the room has continued. The reliefs now have backsides; the shell fragments have become bodies. The forms speak with stronger, more urgent voices and gradually conquer greater independence. If Helena Andersson previously preferred to arrange the individual objects into larger compositions, at the same time as she stressed the inner tensions of each and every one of them, she now seeks to give every piece its own totality in form, colour and structure. They are becoming solitary individuals. She rolls down the clay in chunks and slabs, and builds up and shapes volumes with her hands. The great varieties of the surface structures are often created by putting the soft clay on top of thick foam rubber, where it is exposed to brutal treatment. Helena Andersson has learned to treat the clay ruthlessly. As such, she belongs to the expansive sculptural direction that has become a leading movement in young Swedish ceramic art. But, as opposed to many of her friends in her generation, she has not rejected the traditional methods of expression. Her objects radiate a clear ceramic quality, not the least due to their rich register of glazes. Oftentimes slips and glazes are layered in several coats, and the objects are reduction fired in gas or wood kilns. Helena Andersson works exclusively with earthenware, and the at times distinguishable decorative streaks in her sculptures, show that there is only a thin line boarding to the popular earthenware tradition. Besides her sculptural work, Helena Andersson has periodically also spent time at the potter´s wheel, wheel-throwing utility goods and rolling large slabbuilt dishes Art critic: Love Jönsson Twelve Hertha Bengtson Grant Recipients - Ceramic Art from Sweden
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