On Saturday, May 18, at 18:00, the Victoria Cinema will screen the documentary “Ceramics: A Fragile History, Part III (The Ceramicist’s Art)”, made by BBC. The screening is one of the CAOLIN festival events.
Towards the end of the 19th century, a group of craftsmen decided to break the monopoly of the big pottery factories. This is the emergence of the artistic or signature pottery studio, a movement that celebrates technical craftsmanship and personal decorative taste in contrast to industrial mass production. Through the likes of William De Morgan, Bernard Leach and William Staite Murray, the studio potteries have made a significant contribution to the development of decorative arts and modern art in general, not just in Britain but throughout Europe.
Some of the figures who re-launched the art of ceramics in the UK after the second half of the 20th century are presented: Lucie Rie, Alison Britton, Grayson Perry or Edmund de Waal, who are now considered to be among the most important living ceramicists.
CAOLIN also presents in Cluj, between May 16 and 19, 2019, the Contemporary Ceramics Fair at the Tailors’ Tower, the international exhibition of conceptual-artistic ceramics at the Casino Center for Urban Culture, creative workshops and seminars at the artistic café Espresso Studio, as well as a focus on the Talavettes from Tărtăria in collaboration with the National Museum of Transylvanian History.
Since 2017 CAOLIN International Contemporary Ceramics Festival is organized under the High Patronage of Her Royal Highness Princess Maria of Romania.
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