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Galerie Besson is delighted to announce an exhibition of new works by major ceramic artist Claudi Casanovas. The exhibition, entitled Camp d’urnes (Field of Urns), will be an installation of 24 ceramic urns. Named after the ‘Urnfields’ of the ancient pre-Iberian, Indo-European civilizations in Europe, the artist imagines the installation “as if from an ongoing archaeological excavation”.
These are the artist’s first new ceramic works in over four years. Casanovas spent three years from 2003-6 working on ‘Als Vençuts’ an immense project for a monument against Fascism in Olot, Spain. The monument’s ceramic core, encased in a concrete chamber, weighed some 15 tonnes and measured over 6 feet high. Since then Casanovas has completed an impressive series of aquatints and etchings – also on an vast scale; the most recent ‘Roca’ (Rock) etchings measuring over 2 metres in width.
The urns are made from a conglomeration of clays of different colours, formed around a ‘nucleus’ and dampened into a block. After firing, the blocks are divided in the middle with a hammer and chisel, exposing the empty nucleus within. Each closed urn measures approximately 35 cm squared.
“It is with great pleasure that we greet Casanovas’ return to clay”
Anita Besson
Further images and information, including a biography of the artist – available at www.galeriebesson.co.uk/casanovas2009
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