The Norwegian artist Hilde A. Danielsen will join the Clayarch Gimhae Museum for a workshop and exhibition later this month. The theme is Architectural Ceramic - Art.
The trip to Korea will be Mrs. Danielsen’s first. However, she is already active on the international scene, and this year she will also host exhibitions in Denmark and The Netherlands. With an education from The Bergen National Academy of Arts, she is now working from the same city.
Her main thesis from the academy focused on visual arts, and her works consist of location installations – both in the natural environment, and connected to structures. In these projects, she gives a visual interpretation of the location she is using, telling us something about its background and culture, as well as traditions and craftsmanship connected to a place and its surroundings. Although Mrs. Danielsen uses many types of material for her work, brick is perhaps used more frequently than the rest. It is also the main material in her ongoing long-term project called The Transparent Brick Wall. Walls are a recurring theme for Mrs. Danielsen – both as physical objects, and as metaphors.
The workshop at the Clayarch Gimhae Museum will start on July 27. and lasts until August 23. The Architectural Ceramic- Art exhibition starts somewhat later – on September 5. The exhibition stands until March 2010. For those interested, the address and webpage of the museum is the following:
Clayarch Gimhae Museum
356, Songjeong-ri Jillye-myeon
Gimhae-si Gyeongsangnam
621-883 South Korea
www.clayarch.org
Architectural Ceramic Art
This is the third international project initiated by Clayarch Gimhae Museum, and it has a focus on artistic and innovative use of traditional ceramic architectural materials. The nine participants invited for the workshop use a variation of industry-produced ceramic materials; tiles, roof tiles, bricks for floor and walls, different transformer/insulators, sanitary wares etc.
Mrs. Danielsen chooses Korean traditional kaolin bricks and unburned mud bricks for her project plan, entitled In Between. She will make a new sight-specific sculpture for the museum, developed from her earlier experiences with art installations, which were built with Norwegian earth ware bricks turned inside out and redesigned.
The idea if In Between is to use the specific outdoor space/the landscape sight as ab inspiration for the form of the sculpture. Mrs. Danielsen’s goal is to work with semi-transparency and perforation walls in combination with ordinary massive brick walls. The relationship between light and shadows is her inspiration, as well as the use of optical illusions. In her work, she wants to play with the contrast between open and closed walls.
Kristoffer Lund Langlie, Norwegian Embassy in Seoul