En vackrare sanning / A More Beautiful Truth
Summary
I explore how ceramics can imitate other materials, and how other materials can look like ceramics. Using tiles, both self-made, bought and found, I build stories around identity and representation. I am fascinated by the authentic, but even more so by its opposite.
Description of project
See attached: PDF-Project reflection text. PDF-Exhibition documentation. JPG-Invitation Card. PDF-Review from DN (Shared with exhibit. In neighbour gallery).
Description of work included
Granit. Tiles 60x60 cm.
Like a bridge. Tile sculpture 120x57x35 cm.
Från stranden du till stranden jag. Tiles and earthenware. 95x40 cm.
I strandlinjen. Earthenware sculptures with water¬color on tiles. 120x100x65 cm
Vågorna. Tiles and earthenware. 50x43 cm.
Tile collage. 45x50 cm.
Rosa fris (detail). Slip, oxides and glaze on tile.
En vackrare sanning. Tiles and earthenware. 45x30x5 cm
The exhibition also contained a few more objects not depicted in single photos.
Type of work
Artistic work. Solo exhibition of ceramics and mixed media.
Published in
Kaolin Gallery, Stockholm
Link to web site
http://dceramic.se/photos.html
http://kaolin.se/david-carlsson/
Other description
Kaolin Gallery exhibition text: I want to be different things on different occasions, and sometimes everything at the same time. The border between the fact and the aim gives room for something else. I want to see both what it is and what it depicts.
Sometimes the imitation can do. Sometimes it is the whole point, because the real thing wouldn’t work. First and foremost it is potent and provocative, because it is everything at the same time and yet none of it.
This is a story about the imitated as much of the imitation. I point to mountains and the sea, on the things I call home. I think of how I see it and of other people’s view on it, and how their view becomes a part of how they view me. I think of how these pictures goes together, and how they don´t. I think of how I sometimes try to make them match, for my sake and for others, and why I do so. I re-write and beautify, just as everyone else. Somewhere on the way it becomes unclear, but also unnecessary what things are. There are layers of love, irony, humour and anxiety. Everything at the same time.
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Date
2017Creator
Carlsson, David
Keywords
tiles
ceramics
ceramic art
crafs
industrial ceramics
hand production
imitation
faux
simulacra
fake
look-a-like
representation
Publication type
artistic work