Sandra Davolio - Exhibition May 2008

Sandra Davolio
Ceramic objects in dialogue with rhythms of life

Ann Linnemann studio gallery April 26 – May 31 2008

Biography www.sandradavolio.dk
Born 1951 Correggio, Reggio Emilia, Italy - Living in Danmark since1974 - Own studio 1985 - Member of Danske Kunsthåndværkere

Education Danmarks Design Skole 1985

Teacher Lundtofte Gl. Skole Keramikværkstedet, Lyngby-Taarbæk; Studio Pandora, Sorano, Italy; Keramikskolen, Copenhagen DK

Selected exhibitions

2008 Art Herning 2008 - gaalleri New Form, Trelleborg

2007 Aalborg Kunstpavillon - ”Cerco Aragòn, Saragoza, Spanien - Huset i Asnæs - International Furniture Fair, Bella Center, Copenhagen - Illums Bolighus, Copenhagen - Galleri Humlum, Struer - KIC (Kunsthåndværk I Centrum), Århus - Galleri New Form, Trelleborg.

2006 Borreby Slot, Skælskør - KunstHåndværkDesign, Janus Bygning, Tistrup - Design& Brugskunst, Bella Center, Copenhagen - ”Porcelæn”, Huset i Asnæs - International Furniture Fair Bella Center, KCopenhagen - KIC Kunsthåndværk i Centrum, Århus

2005 Galleri Carlin, Paris - Gallery Nørby (Conversation pieces) - Skovhuset,Værløse (HCA Eventyr 16 artists)

2004 Galleria Jean Blanchaert, Milano, Italy - White, Fiskars, Finland - Galleri Brantebjerg, Nykøbing Sj - Galleri Pagter, Kolding - Farum Kulturhus, Farum - Galleri Nørby, Copenhagen.

2003 53th International Ceramic Art Competition, Faenza, Italy - Galleria 8,75, Reggio Emilia, Italy - Galleri Nørby, Juleudstilling - Cerco Aragòn, Saragoza, Spain - Kunstnernes Sommerudstilling, Tistrup.

2002 Kunstnernes Forårsudstilling, Charlottenborg, Copenhagen - Kunstnernes Sommerudstilling, Tistrup - Kromatech-Tendenze, Rimini, Italy

2000 Etelå-Kartjalan Taaide Museum, Lappeenranta, Finland

1998 Galerie Ceramic Arts, Østrig - SAK Kunstbygning, Svendborg - Skovhuset, Værløse

1997 Grassi Museum, Leipzig, Tyskland - Borreby Galleri, Skælskør - 49. Internationale Handwerksmesse, München,Tyskland - Galerie L, Hamburg, Germany.

1996 Keramion, Europäische Keramik, Frechen, Tyskland - Galleria Materia Prima, Art and Crafts, Venice, Italy - Fletcher Challenge Ceramics Award, New Zealand - Farum Kulturhus, Farum

1995 Galerie Blås & Knåda, Stockholm - Kunstindustrimuseet, Copenhagen - Gug Kirke, Ålborg - Kunstnernes Påskeudstilling, Århus - Bangsbo Museet, Frederikshavn

1994 Musei Civici, Reggio Emilia, Italy - Fletcher Challenge Ceramics Award, New Zealand - Daglidagens Rum og Ritualer, Den Frie, Copenhagen - Skovhuset, Værløse.

Grants

2006 Solarfonden, rejselegat

2004 Statens Kunstfond, arbejdslegat

2002 Dronning Ingrids Romerske Fond. Sport Goods Fonden, rejselegat

1998 Danmarks Nationalbanks Jubilæumsfond. Statens Kunstfond, arbejdslegat

1997 Statens Kunstfond, arbejdslegat. Kulturministeriet, rejselegat

1996 Kulturministeriet, rejselegat

1995 Nordisk Konst.och Kunstindustrikommitè. Københavns Tekniske Skoles rejselegat

1995 Københavns Tekniske Skole, rejselegat

Awards Ordine della Stella della Solidarietá Italiana (2007) - Årets Kunstner, Skovhuset, Værløse (2000) - Københavns Tekniske Skoles Kunsthåndværkerpris af 1978, sølvmedalje (1995)

Collections Kunstindustrimuseet, København, Statens Kunstfond, Danmarks Keramikmuseum Grimmerhus, Middelfart, Grassi Museum, Leipzig, Tyskland, Museo Internazionale delle Ceramiche, Faenza, Italien, Bellerive Museum, Zürich, Schweiz, Musei Civici, Reggio Emilia, Italy, Collezione Maramotti, reggio Emilia, Italy

Sten Lykke Madsen - March/April 2008

Sten Lykke Madsen
Exhibition March 1 - April 26 2008

Adventurous fabel figures with humor poetry and storytelling
Fancyful - Fabulous - Fascinating - Felicitous - Fabulating

The Fanciful Ceramist by Ole Lindboe, Editor of Art
There are ceramists and there are ceramists and then there is Sten Lykke Madsen. More than any other, he embodies the fanciful in Danish ceramics. In his universe the imagination is on a continuous voyage of discovery, and rationality has been relegated to the stuffy office where it belongs.
Sten Lykke Madsen tells stories as if drawing from an inexhaustible source of whimsical, humorous and bizarre visions. Anything is possible in his fantastic universe where nothing is what it seems. Fish, frogs, small lizards and other strange but benign mutants tumble about as if they were a kind of people.
These beings are indubitably sweet but make no mistake: They may bare their teeth, revealing dangerous depths. You might feel somewhat ill at ease upon meeting his creatures and their fickle natures. Imagine turning your back on them for a minute: What might they do?
Transformation is a keyword for the ceramist’s universe. Believe it or not, we live in a world that is both magical and realistic at the same time. The magic cancels the realistic. Or extends it. The magical causes us to question conventions. And everybody is something in someone else’s narrative. Altogether we are always included in other people’s stories. And maybe we are also all part of God’s great narrative?
Sten Lykke Madsen is blessed with a both simpleminded and refined sense of the wonder of life. In his perspective even the most mundane objects are imbued with magical forms. A kettle, a washboard and an iron (and their basic forms) can appear side by side with the strangest lizard creatures. Everything is stirred together in the wizard’s kindly cauldron where mythology and the everyday form a synthesis.
His deeply original sense of form has a touch of cubism. The world is lightly twisted. It is turned upside-down. Cracks to the subconscious are opened, but please refrain from interpreting Sten Lykke Madsen’s universe to death. He has an almost childish aversion to heavy-handed interpretations and theoretical explications attempting to schematise his art. It resists that. It is sufficiently anarchistic in a beautiful and subtly witty manner.
There is no doubt that Sten Lykke Madsen is one of our great artists in his special field. The false dichotomy between art and crafts loses all meaning when you visit his world. His art is a happy marriage between the curious and the general. It is freewheeling fancy.
When encountering the artist for the first time you cannot help deliberating whether he is really of this world. Might he not be a pixie later in the evening to return to his knoll somewhere in the woods? It seems credible that he is an envoy sent to our world to spread fables and fantasies.
His approach to his art is the same deliberately naïve one found in Henry Heerup. And Sten Lykke has retained his childhood’s ability to wonder. He can go off into a reverie. He can be surprised and he can be amused.
He is a watcher who always looks again, pondering the details, always spotting the small in the great – and the great in the small. And he just can’t help inventing over the things he experiences in his inner world, as well as the outer one (and every time we see his works, invariably we think: What is the difference?).
O, to once again encounter his stories for the first time!

BIOGRAPHY - STEN LYKKE MADSEN
Born 1937 Copenhagen, Denmark

EDUCATION & PROFESSIONAL CARRIER
The Art, Craft & Design School (now: Achademy Design School) Copenhagen 1958 - Bronze Award.
Kähler, Næstved 1958 - Own studio 1959.. - Bing & Grøndahl 1962-86 - Royal Copenhagen Porcelain Factory 1986-2003.

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Bing & Grøndahl 1971 - Höganäs Museum 1973 - Charlottenborg 1975 - Koldinghus 1975 – 'Ceramic Sculpture' Travel exhibition in Scotland, The Danish Culture Institute in Edinburg 1986-88 - 'Keramiske Udtryk – med Kærlighed' Lidköpings Konsthall 1987 – Royal Copenhagen Porcelain Factory 1988, 1995 - Musikhuset in Aarhus 1990 - Næstved Museum 1989, 1998 - Galerie b 15, Munich 1992 - Rundetårn 1998 - Gallery Nørby 1999, 2002, 2006 – Danish Embassy in Berlin 2001 - 'Salt' Design Museum Denmark 2002 - Gallery Pagter 2004 - Gallery Svenshög, Lund 2005 - Kähler, Næstved 2006 – 'Dice & Dice' Fukuoka, Japan (w. Takashi Nakazato) 2006 - Ann Linnemann Gallery, Copenhagen 2008 -

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Bing & Grøndahl 1963,1965, 1967, 1981 - Nieman Marcus, Dallas 1964 - Concorso Internazionale delle Ceramice, Faenza 1967, 1975, 1978, 1981 - International Ceramics, Victoria & Albert, London 1972 - Chunichi International Exhibition of Ceramic Arts, Japan 1976 - Keramion, Frecehen - Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam 1977 - Design Museum Denmark 1978, 1980 - Kunstnernes Efterårsudstilling, Charlottenborg 1983 - Keramiske Veje, Den Fries Udstillingsbygning, Copenhagen 1985, 87, 89, 92, 94, 97, 2000, 2004 - Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan 1984, 1994 - Denmark Modern Craft Exhibition, Seibu, Tokio 1987 - 1st Biennial Internacional de Obidos, Portugal 1987 - 'Design au Danemark 1950-87 - Travel exhibition in France 1987-88 - 'Deense keramisten en Leen Quist', Singer Museum & Galerie Amphora, Holland 1990 - 'Form und Glasur', Hoechst, Frankfurt 1991, 2000 - Gallery Nørby, Copenhagen - 1995, 1996, 2005 - 'From Golden Age to The present Day', Edinburg 1995 – Pro, Charlottenborg 1996 - Danish Ceramic Triennial, Trapholt 1997 – Denmark's Ceramic Museum 1997, 2000 - 'Keramik aus Dänemark', Munich 1998 – International Ceramic Biennial, Korea 2001 - 'From the Kilns of Denmark' New York, Fitchburg, San Diego, Sacramento, Racine, Paris, Berlin 2002–2004 – Danish House, Stockholm 2003 - Gallery Kaffeslottet, Gudhjem 2004 - 'Sofa', Chicago 2005 - Museum De Tiendschuur, Holland 2005 - World Clay, IAC members, Riga 2006.

REPRESENTED IN COLLECTIONS
Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam - Grimmerhus - Helsingborg Museum - Höganäs Museum - Keramikmuseum, Westerwald - Design Museum Denmark - Museo Internazinale delle Ceramice, Faenca - Nationalmuseet, Stockholm - Nordenfjeldske Kunstindustrimuseum, Trondheim - New Carlsberg Foundation - National Danish Art Foundation - Trapholt Museum - Victoria & Albert, London – Fuping International Museum, Kina.

COMMISSIONS
Gavludsmykning Vesterbrogade 147, Copenhagen 1978 - Fountain, Store Torv, Holstebro 1986 - Gavludsmykning Sølvgade 14, Copenhagen 1993 – Wall commission Castberggaard, Urlev 2002.

GRANTS AND AWARDS
Guldmedalje Museo Internazionale delle Ceramice, Faenza 1967, 1975 - Hofjuveler Michelsens Anniversary Award 1969, Paul Mindelegat 1971, Thannings Rejselegat 1972, Danish National Bank's Anniversary Award 1974, Ole Haslunds Legat 1984, National Danish Arts Foundation 2003, 2005 travel grant 2004 - Sølvsmed Kay Bojesens og hustru Erna Bojesens Award 2005 – Arts Association of 14 August Award 2005.

MEMBER OF Académie Internationale de la Cèramique (AIC) – Keramiske Veje/Ceramic Ways DK

Body Landscape - culture landscape 2009

Body Landscape
porcelain - handthrown & altered - ash glazez ..ceramic colour - inspired by culture landscapes from Australia and Denmark.


Exhibition: Culture Landscape - october 2009

Kær & Linnemann - Collaboration project

Freudlinger
Peter Kær & Ann Linnemann collaboration pieces
Hand-thrown, altered pieces in porcelain

Exhibition February 2009 Peter Kær Hellerup, Denmark

Body duo & Swingers 2009

Body Duo - Porcelain, handthrown & altered - H.60 cm

Body trio & Swingers
porcelain
handthrown & altered
Trio H.60cm - Swingers H.15cm

Exhibition Ann Linnemann - Helen Stephens Gallery Sydney. Australien LINK
Guest artist Australia National University, School of Art - Canberra AU
Workshops Teapots JamFactory Adelaide AU & Sculptural Objects & Design - SODA Perth AU

Workshop - Australia 2009

Australia journey January - March 2009
Exhibition at Helen Stephens Gallery - All Hand Made Gallery, Sydney
http://www.allhandmadegallery.com/

Workshops in Canberra, Adelaide and Perth
Ann Linnemann - Distance Diploma Workshop
School of Art, ANU College of Arts, Canberra
http://www.soa.anu.edu.au/
Identity & originality
Inspiration & collaboration
Throwing & altering technique

How do you develop your personal language of form?
How do you find form ideas that relate to yourself?
How do you use inspirational ideas and make them yours?
Describe a personal, private story, mood or feeling in a wheel thrown ceramic form
Make a piece that shows a personal story that relates to your identity, personality or mood.
Combine form elements, that attracts you, with elements of form that you find non-attractive/ugly.
Make a piece that combines and presents those opposite sides of your personality.
Techniques:
Wheel throwing and alteration of the form without using tools, cutting into the form, changing the surface of the basic thrown form.
Make wheel-throw basic forms (bowl, cylinder and round closed form) and use the qualities of the thrown form as a canvas for ideas.

The Teapot Workshop at JamFactory, Adelaide – Feb 21 & 22, 2009
http://www.jamfactory.com.au/
Ceramics Studio of JamFactory will run an intensive two-day workshop where leading artists demonstrate skills and techniques needed in making teapots. Demonstrating artists include Bruce Nuske on hand-building the teapot, Robin Best on casting teapots and Stephen Bowers on decorating. They will be joined by special guest artist Ann Linneman from Denmark, who will be constructing a wheel-thrown teapot.
This workshop is an initiative of Uni SA and the Ceramics Studio of JamFactory.
To enrol please enquire at the JamFactory retail counter or Telephone 8410 0727 or email robin.best@jamfactory.com.au

Ann Linneman workshop at SODA, Fremantle
Saturday 28th of February 2009 at SODA studio’s 1/98 Stirling Hwy North Fremantle 6159.
www.sodaresidency.com
Ann Linnemann presents a one-day demonstration workshop that explores elements of her own ceramic practice and an evening lecture about her own career and ceramics in Denmark.

Ann Linnemann Portrait - October 2008

Exhibition 4 – 30 October 2008

Ann Linnemann
Portrait


The gallery celebrates the 10th anniversary of the opening of Ann Linnemann studio gallery in Copenhagen.

The exhibition shows sculptural 'portraits' that were made in Denmark by Ann Linnemann. These works were inspired by journeys abroad and international studio residencies during the past ten years.

In 1998, Linnemann established the gallery and studio in Nyboder, Copenhagen. Later that year, she was awarded the three year stipend by the Statens Kunstfond (Danish National Foundation).

The exhibition - Portrait
The theme of this solo exhibition is the 'human'; abstract forms of the body drawing from cultural traditions within ceramics; the 'Tang' glaze, wood fired surfaces, pure porcelain, ceramic print (made by the British artist, Paul Scott).
The focus is the various connecting points between the individual pieces, the history of ceramics and the meeting of opposites.

The exhibition is partly retrospective. The selected early pieces are composed with new pieces. They work together to tell a different story about dualism, interaction and the 'contrary' to form a new dialogue.

The exhibition shows Ann Linnemann’s ten years of artistic and technical development as well as her exploration of culture, form and material.

The memories and cultural stories are set into play by the linked 'body portraits'. These portraits may speak to the viewer about their own personal presence, their experience, senses, illusions and visions.

Body vase & Spooning 2008

Body Vases & Spooning
porcelain
handthrown & altered
human size 1:1
guest arist & workshop

Exhibition: JamFactory Gallery Adelaide Australien www.jamfactory.com.au

Australia 2008

Studio Residency March - April 2008
I visited Australia as a guest artist at JamFactory Contemporary Craft and Design, Adelaide, Australia.
My residency was funded by Helpmann Academy and JamFactory.
http://www.jamfactory.com.au/

Artist in residence, lecturer and workshop
Thank you for the invitation to:
Stephen Bowers, Director of JamFactory
Gabriella Bisetto, Glass and Ceramics, UniSA School of Art
Kirsten Coehlo, Ceramics, UniSA School of Art
Bruce Nuske, Head of Ceramics AC Arts

The porcelain pieces I made during my studio residency at JamFactory, Adelaide, Australia: Spooning & Body vases - Handthrown porcelain, altered

Exhibition: Porcelain JamFactory Gallary
Prue Venables, Gwen Hansen-Pigott, Bruce Nuske, Gerry Wedd, Robin Best, Kirsten Coehlo and Ann Linnemann.

Body - China Tang 2007

Body - China Tang Handthrown & altered porcelain - Human size H.20-35cm

Ann Linnemann Gallery

The Gallery in Copenhagen shows exhibitions and features contemporary ceramics and glass of high quality.
Danish text: http://annlinnemann.blogspot.com/

EXHIBITION CALENDAR 2010

30 OCTOBER - 26 NOVEMBER Illustrious Wonderers
Kurt Weiser USA, Stephen Bowers AU, Paul Scott UK
Kurt Weiser - Stephen Bowers - Paul Scott

30 SEPTEMBER - 28 OCTOBER Cumulus
Bente Skjøttgaard DK
www.skjoettgaard.dk

2 - 25 SEPTEMBER Diamonds are...
Karen Bennicke DK
www.karenbennicke.dk

5 - 28 AUGUST Setups
Lone Skov Madsen & Turi Heisseberg Pedersen
Lone Skov Madsen - Turi Heisselberg Pedersen

4 - 31 JULY SUMMER Exhibition

4 JUNE - 3 JULY
Things in Common
Kirsten Coelho, Prue Venable AU & Ann Linnemann DK
www.kirstencoelho.com
www.beavergalleries.com.au/venables www.mossgreen.com.au/venables

6 - 29 MAY Contrast
Sten Lykke Madsen & Marianne Nielsen DK
www.stenlykkemadsen.com - www.mariannenielsen.com/

8 APRIL - 1 MAJ Happenstance
Karen Harsbo DK & Neil Brownsword UK
www.kunstakademiet.dk/labs/keramik/ www.galeriebesson.co.uk/brownsword

4 - 27 MARTS Doni Votivi Sandra Davolio DK/ Italy
www.sandradavolio.dk/

4 - 27 FEBRUAR Fulby Hans & Birgitte Börjesen DK
www.fulby.com/

7 - 30 JANUAR 2D to 3D
Ole Akhøj & Ane-Katrine von Bülow DK
www.anekatrinevonbulow.dk/ www.oleakhoej.dk/

CALENDAR 2009

1 OKTOBER - 26 NOVEMBER Culture Landscape - Ole Akhøj & Ann Linnemann
Photographer Ole Akhøj & ceramic artist Ann Linnemann show photographs and ‘image vases’ with references to Culture and Landscape.

3 - 26 SEPTEMBER SeptemberRUM
Sia Mai, Jeanette List Amstrup, Vibeke Fonnesberg Schmidt & Annemette Kissow.
Siamai.dk Listamstrup.dk Vibekefonnesbergschmidt.dk Annemettekissow.dk


6 - 29 AUGUST Akio Takamori
Exhibition of new work by Akio Takamori USA/Japan


4 JUNI - 1 AUGUST Summer in Copenhagen
Summer exhibition of new ceramics and glass by the Danish artists:
Barbro Åberg Better Lübbert Jac Hansen, Helle Hove Anne Fløche Karen Bennicke Mette Marie Ørsted Karen Harsbo www.kunstakademiet.dk Karin Michelsen Morten Løbner Espersen Ninna Gøtzsche Ane-Katrine von Bülow Ann Linnemann Hans Vangsø Iben Kielberg Sandra Davolio Sten Lykke Madsen International artist Paul Scott

18 APRIL - 16 MAJ Landscape Blue - Body Blue
Paul Scott UK & Ann Linnemann DK
www.cumbrianblues.com

3 MARTS – 8 APRIL Anne Fløche DK


3 – 28 FEBRUAR Flower Power
Ane-Katrine von Bülow & Iben Kielberg DK


3 - 31JANUAR Formateket
Vicki Hansen, Joan Høgh, Kirsten Høholt, Pi Bjørg & Birgitte Due Madsen.

EXHIBITION CALENDAR 2008

29 NOVEMBER – 23 DECEMBER Christmas exhibition
Ane-Katrine von Bülow, Ann Linnemann, Iben Kielberg, Sandra Davolio, Sten Lykke Madsen and guest artists.

1 NOVEMBER – 27 NOVEMBER Hans Vangsø DK


4 OKTOBER – 30 OKTOBER Ann Linnemann – portrait
We celebrate 10 years anniversary for the studio gallery in Nyboder, Copenhagen. Ann Linnemann shows a portrait exhibition of sculptural work made in Danmark and influenced by various ceramic traditions and cultural experiences at international studio residencies.

6 SEPTEMBER – 2 OCTOBER De sjældne kander - the rare/=soul pots
Danish ceramists show unique pots for coffe and tea
Exhibitors are Bente Hansen, Birgitte Ran Bennike Mayall, Christian Bruun, Gurli Elbækgaard, Henriette Duckert, Karina Skibby, Lis Biggas, Malene Møller Hansen, Nina Gøtzsche and Ann Linnemann.

9 AUGUST – 4 SEPTEMBER The unique table setting
Ann Linnemann, Iben Kielberg, Ane-Katrine von Bülow, Sten Lykke Madsen and guest artist Nina Gøtzsche.

7 JUNE – 7 AUGUST Summer flowers – Vases
Ane-Katrine von Bülow, Ann Linnemann, Iben Kielberg, Sandra Davolio, Sten Lykke Madsen and guest artists Lone Skov Madsen, Turi Heisselberg Pedersen.

26 APRIL – 31 MAY Sandra Davolio DK
Ceramic objects in a dialogue with the rythms of life.


1. MARCH – 26 APRIL Sten Lykke Madsen DK
Fairytale, fabel figurs with humour, poetry and story.

Exhibition - The Scottish Gallery

August-September 2008, the collaborative cups by Paul Scott & Ann Linnemann are exhibited at The Scottish Gallery in Edinburgh.

Exhibition
The Blue Room
6 August – 8 September 2008
Landscape Blue - Copenhagen Trees

Handthrown porcelain cups by Ann Linnemann annlinn@worldonline.dk
Screen-prints/decals by Paul Scott UK cumbrianblues@mac.com www.cumbrianblues.com

The Scottish Gallery
16 Dundas Street
Edinburgh EH3 6HZ

www.scottish-gallery.co.uk

+ 44 (0) 131 558 1200

Body wood & soda 2006

Body
Stoneware soda & woodfire
handthrown & altered
stony gray glaze 1350C