NEW PERSPECTIVES IN #CERAMIC
SWING Design Gallery is pleased to present NEW PERSPECTIVES IN #CERAMIC, the first group exhibition entirely dedicated to ceramic including new names and leading designers who have helped shape the history of our gallery over the years. The exhibition is curated by Angela da Silva with the support of Antonella Palladino, and brings together works by Alberte Agerskov, Studio Berg, David Casini, Lino Fiorito, Sarah-Linda Forrer, Hella Gerlach, Ahryun Lee, Studio Moon, Daniel Nikolovski, Héloïse Piraud, Hannah Simpson Studio, Dávid Valovič, Alissa Volchkova, and Jingbei Zheng. The specific styles of these designers and artists are joined by their interest in ceramics and its aesthetic, technological, and cognitive implications. The exhibition is among the NEW PERSPECTIVES series of exhibitions about the world of materials, including ceramic, marble, glass with which SWING Design Gallery focuses on innovation and the multisensory realm tied to the expressive potential and vocabulary of materials. The gallery is opening its doors to a dialogue between design pieces and sculptures, some made especially for this exhibition. They are situated within an exhibition trajectory conceived as the story of expressive, formal possibilities, explorations and experimentation about the working of ceramic, an age-old material that can still surprise us and open fresh perspectives. According to Zygmunt Bauman, modernity is the belief that “change is the only permanence, and uncertainty the only certainty.” The works offer visitors’ perceptive and sensorial experiences, through which each can delve into the many philosophical, symbolic and metaphorical interpretations that have always been given to ceramics. In the main room, works of art and design are placed in relation, forging dialogues and correspondences between ambiguous and dreamlike forms and color vibrations. Daniel Nikolovski, Alissa Volchkova, Hannah Simpson Studio, and Studio Berg go beyond an object’s mere functionality and play with it to give it multiple meanings and project it towards abstract and surreal dimensions. There is a succession of vases, coffee tables, plates like small sculptures, bowls with liquid shapes, lamps, and trays with a surreal appearance. While limits serve merely as stimuli to keep on evolving, Héloïse Piraud, Dávid Valovič, Studio Moon, combine formal investigations with technological experimentation through the use of extruders and fluid materials in their vases and sculptures. Overcoming limits and defining shapes to the smallest detail are shared traits in the work of Alberte Agerskov, Sarah Linda Forrer and Ahryun Lee, expressed in vases with extremely well-finished tactile textures. David Casini, Hella Gerlach, Lino Fiorito, and Jingbei Zheng make use of hybrid languages and forms with a sculptural character, ranging from a sense of fragility to the pursuit of open forms that lend themselves to ever possible changes and reconfigurations. The exhibition is part of the NEW PERSPECTIVES series that seeks to promote the rediscovery of design’s sensory and expressive dimensions connected to the importance of materials.
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