Scorched Earth Happy Land

featuring:

Yulia Chuma Belova
Katrin Bobek
Cybel Cox
Martin Grandits
Julia Hanzl
Unbekannter Künstler
Georgij Melnikov
Benjaminn Nachtigal
Anna Steinhäusler
Susanna Strasser

Vernissage 09.03.2017 at 7pm
Exhibition 10.03 - 01.04 / Th - Sa / 5pm -9 pm

“Scorched Earth Happy Land”

10 Artists give a look at the impressive variety of forms, colours and textures, possible in the medium of ceramics.

Exploring the realms, of burned earth eruptions and stone cold perfection. The act of playing with fire, the act of breathing life into stone.

There is great excitement when you put a piece of clay into the kiln. A space, peacefull at first, but determined, to become hellish, as hieronymus bosch would have drawn it, filled to the top with burning imortal creatures.

The destructive force of the fire, captures the fragile life formed into the soft clay. The fire hardens it and makes the temporary Ideas last, until they brake and go back to the earth where they came from. Eventually to get found and puzzeld together again, by some other future civilisations.

You never know what you can find when you dig into the earth and you never can tell for sure what result this play of elements known as burning will bring to you.

It all comes down to this one moment when you finally slowly open the doors to the chamber of surprise…