Barbara Nanning (NL), grosse blaue Schale mit Öffnungen
Barbara Nanning, eine kobaltblaue Schale aus den Terra series, Steinzeug, pigmentierte Silversand. Dieses Stück war gekauft in 1992 im Studio von Barbara Nanning.
Terra series
Various trips to Japan laid the foundation for Nanning's ceramic work from the mid 90s. Inspired by centuries-old Zen gardens, she made bowls with parallel grooves and gnarled objects of petrified wood with ceramic components that seamlessly coalesce into a new entity. "The bowls with strict geometrical shapes sometimes only have a pattern of parallel lines, like a stilled movement of water, others have a more complex structure lying between ceramics in its classical sense and current autonomous art." "The objects are earthy and stand on their own, they rise up from the earth. The straight lines are reminiscent of ploughed fields and Zen gardens. I take these rational forms and combine them with organic forms from nature, grafting feeling onto reason in this way. Dynamics with a static resting point. There must, I think, be a balance, a harmony between the positive and the negative, the static and the dynamic, inner and outer forms, growth and gravity." (text from: Barbara Nanning_evolution)
Barbara Nanning, eine kobaltblaue Schale aus den Terra series, Steinzeug, pigmentierte Silversand. Dieses Stück war gekauft in 1992 im Studio von Barbara Nanning.
Terra series
Various trips to Japan laid the foundation for Nanning's ceramic work from the mid 90s. Inspired by centuries-old Zen gardens, she made bowls with parallel grooves and gnarled objects of petrified wood with ceramic components that seamlessly coalesce into a new entity. "The bowls with strict geometrical shapes sometimes only have a pattern of parallel lines, like a stilled movement of water, others have a more complex structure lying between ceramics in its classical sense and current autonomous art." "The objects are earthy and stand on their own, they rise up from the earth. The straight lines are reminiscent of ploughed fields and Zen gardens. I take these rational forms and combine them with organic forms from nature, grafting feeling onto reason in this way. Dynamics with a static resting point. There must, I think, be a balance, a harmony between the positive and the negative, the static and the dynamic, inner and outer forms, growth and gravity." (text from: Barbara Nanning_evolution)