Ingrid Mol gaat met enkele kunstenaars collega's van Structuur ongeveer een maand werken in Fuping, een uur van Xian vandaan.
Het schema is simpel, 3 dagen Peking, dan werken in de keramiek werkplaatsen en zij eindigen met 4 dagen Shanghai.
hier een tekst van de Flicamsite over Dr Hsu en zijn ontmoetingen in Nederland met de keramisten die geregeld bij Stuctuur werken.
Holland Pavilion, Western Europe Museum, FLICAMII.D Holland Pavilion, Western Europe Museum, FLICAM
In Feb. 13th morning, Piet took Dr. Hsu to the train station in Mastericht and took a train to Amsterdam, Holland. Dr. Hsu arrived there at noon. Before Dr. Hsu came to Amsterdam, he contacted
Gert Germeraad and
Adriaain Rees in Amsterdam,. Adriaain has been in China many times and worked in Dr. Hsu’s studio in Beijing and also participated Fuping’s 1st International Ceramic Workshop. He arranged
Gijs Assmann to meet Dr. Hsu at train station and took him to the Lloyd Hotel. Later Dr. Hsu met Adriaain and
Stan Petrusa .
Dr. Hsu came to Amsterdam in a good timing, These three artists plus the few others he will see in the next two days were reviving an artists group as organized by Struktuur 68 in 1968 when COBRA art movement was very hot. COBRA was a group artists from COpenhagen, BRussels, and Amsterdam. Their influence to the ceramics was the formation of Struktuur 68 Ceramic Studio. By the 90s, first generation of CORBA artists were getting old and the Struktuur 68 was fighting for survive. Now this group of young ceramic artists see the possibility of COBRA influence. Their style is bold, colorful, and expressive which is quite different from the current world ceramic trend. Now the owner of Struktuur 68, Henk Trumpie, got excited again and liked to revive the old Struktuur 68. So, the next day (Feb. 14) Dr. Hsu went with another their artist
Hans van Bentem to Den Haag to visit the Struktuur 68. and met Henk.
After Dr. Hsu arrived there he realized that he was there before during the Millennium Ceramic Conference time. He met the whole group and viewed all their work. They were doing large piece work for Adriaain and Hans. Dr. Hsu also met one of their artist
Ingrid Mol. Who later took back him to Amsterdam.
They all wanted me to visit the ceramic museum up in the northern country, a place called Leeuwarden. Henks daughter Ank Trumpie is the main Curator there. Now this young generation is regrouping themselves as a Structural Ceramic Group. They hope FLICAM museum could be their base in China, a show case for their newly reviving effort. They immediately feel the space we saved for Holland is too small. Dr. Hsu also emphasize that the future FLICAM Holland Pavilion should have other artists also, not just the Structural Ceramic Group. They agreed. Adriaan and Hans will visit China in May this year, Dr. Hsu ask them to make a full presentation to FLICAM and let FLICAM management to understand how good their project is and in turn what should we do more for them. In their studio
Although this time Dr. Hsu did not visit EKWC, but Dr. Hsu was there two times in the past. Because they are primarily dealing with international artists and very few from Holland. So, this time Dr. Hsu skipped their visit. But he will inform them what FLICAM will do for Holland.
On Feb 15, Dr. Hsu took 3 hours train to visit Leeuwarden, particularly to visit the museum and meet curator Ank Trumpie, Hank’s daughter.
The visit was very fruitful. Dr. Hsu previewed their coming exhibition ”The Mysterious Celadon”, a good collection of Chinese celadon gathered from 4 Holland museums. Museum’s Asian curator Willem companied him not only viewing the celadon show but also their China collection in the middle level. Then Dr. Hsu went to top level and had a good understanding of Holland ceramics from early time till now. Then Dr. Hsu had a good chat with Ank. She is the chief curator there. She also writes ceramic articles. She is also a member of the newly formed
Structural Ceramic Group.
We informed Holland group that we have the new design of the museum and they also told me that they have a new list now:
Holland artists is organized by the Sculpture Ceramic Foundation
Adriaan Rees, Hans van Bentem, Nicolas Dings, Nick Renshaw, Remco Postuma
Netty van den Heuvel, Anton Reijnders, Simone van Bakel, Esther van Groeningen
Hella Jongerius, Bob van Schie , Esther Stasse, Pauline Wiertz,Ingrid Mol...
Han van Wetering (catalogue), Mirjam Veldhuis (catalogue) kijk ook bij de site's van de kunstenaar die naar China gaan:
Ingrid Mol Nieuws
Hans van Bentem
Adriaan Rees
Pepijn van den Nieuwendijk
Images of the Western Europe Museum (The New Moon Hall):
UK in the center, Belgium and Holland on the wings
