Video: Unusual ceramic installations by Claire Twomey
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
British sculptor Clare Twomey works with ceramics, but is not one of those avant-garde masters whose works are eager to get their hands on collectors. Her works are emphatically fragile, temporary, but at the same time their place is not on pedestals or in glass cases. In her bold and inventive installations, she invites us to look at art from a completely new perspective. Let's see?
Remember how we are asked to view ceramics in museums? As a rule, they are either hidden under glass, or are under the formidable sign "Do not touch with your hands!" But with the works of Claire Twomey, the opposite is true. For example, her installation Trophy, presented in 2006 at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, consisted of 4,000 tiny birds hand-made from Wedgwood porcelain. The birds were placed right on the floor of the gallery, and after five hours they all disappeared, one and all, hiding in the pockets and bags of visitors. Claire implied that people would take her work with them, although she did not openly ask for it. Interestingly, in the gallery, the author left a note with a request to photograph the birds in a new environment and send her pictures - and subsequently received many photographs from the new owners of her works.
However, Claire Tuomi invites you not only to take her work with you, but also to destroy them. Her installation Consciousness / Conscience features 7,000 hollow bone china tiles laid out on the gallery floor. If you were allowed to walk on such a floor, which would win: the desire to protect the installation or curiosity - will it support your weight? As practice has shown, curiosity turned out to be stronger …
Claire Twomey's other interesting works include Blossom, an installation of 9,000 ceramic flowers planted in a Cornwall garden on Christmas Eve; or "A Dark Day in Paradise" - an installation of 3 thousand black butterflies in the Royal Pavilion, dedicated to the criticism of King George IV. Of course, both flowers and butterflies are made by hand.
Claire Twomey has been working in ceramics since 1999. You can learn more about what she managed to "do" over ten years on her website.
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