The glass project: made in China: landscape in Blue consists of 101 porcelain vases painted by artists of Qing Hua (blue and white) in Jingdezhen, China, between 2004 and 2006. The exhibition will be on display at the Gallery of the Williams Center, May 21, 1 April.
Although all the vases represent a landscape, traditionally found in vases, curator Barbara Diduk, Dana Professor of art at the Dickenson University, played a special role in the creation of the works. She requested the first artist to paint the glass with a landscape by incorporating the batteries of ubiquitous oven of the city and provided an outline of what you had in mind. The second painter received a green white ceramic vase and asked to use the first piece of inspiration.
One painted and fired at a later time painters referred to the earlier work. The result is a "chain letter" of 101 vase paintings, a file of life of the current painting in Jingdezhen, which incorporates the historic practices. Together, the pieces constitute a statement about the relationship between traditional and contemporary artifacts. The full value of the aesthetic of the exhibition arises only to see the works as a whole. For this show, the pieces are displayed in the order completed to accentuate its linear relationship.
The parts comprising the installation were created during a time of economic transition in Jingdezhen, known as the capital of porcelain, where thousands of objects still are created and hand-painted. Based on visual narrative, sociological study of part and part of archived document, the exhibition pays tribute to artists largely unacknowledged receipt and captured artisans working in a time of profound economic transformation.
Diduk, who is also a ceramic artist, will give the talk "Copy, counterfeit, and capitalism" in the ceramic art of the Chinese world at 4: 10 pm on Thursday, April 14, in the Williams Center Room 108. Gallery hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday-Friday, Saturday and Sunday mediodÃa-5 pm and 7: 30-9 pm on the nights of public performances in the Centre of Williams. For more information, please contact with Michiko okaya, director of galleries Lafayette, (610) 330-5361 or e-mail.
In addition, Maris Gillette, whose research focuses on Jingdezhen and the effects of potters of China's transition to a market economy, will the Carol p. Dorian ' 79 Memorial Conference in history of art at 4: 10 hours on Wednesday6 April, in Room 108 from downtown Williams. An anthropologist, curator and filmmaker based in Philadelphia, Gillette is Professor and Chairman of anthropology and coordinator of Islamic studies and Middle East at Haverford College.
Exhibitions in the Gallery of the Williams Center are financed in part by a grant from the Pennsylvania Council on the arts, a State agency funded by the State of Pennsylvania and the National Endowment for the arts.
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