Nemzetközi Kerámia Stúdió - 5 kontinens kerámiái (Kecskemét, 1976)

¥ H-6000 Kecskemét, Kápolna u. 11. H-6001 Kecskemét, P.O. Box 18. tel: (+36) 76 486 867 fax: (+36) 76 482 223 e-mail: icshu@axelero.hu internet: www.icshu.org Danmarks Keramikmuseum Museum of International Ceramic Art, Denmark Grimmerhus, Kongebrovej 42 DK-5500 Middelfart. tel: (+45) 64 41 47 98 fax: (+45) 64 41 47 96 email: museet@grimmerhus.dk internet: www.grimmerhus.dk Nemzetközi Kerámia Stúdió International Ceramics Studio It is with respectful thanks to Mr. Hardy Granhoj and the West Sealand County for their invitation and assistance in mounting this exhibition. I am especially pleased that the initiative to organise and host the first European seminar of the Heads of European Ceramic Centres is to co-incide with this collaboration. I sincerely hope this meeting will build real connections between us in an attempt to enrich our artistic and cultural life in the 21st century as we head towards a more fully united Europe - at last. The INTERNATIONAL CERAMICS STUDIO (ICS) is a world famous ceramic art centre located eighty kilometres south of the Hungarian capital, Budapest. The mission of the International Ceramics Studio is to promote the fonnál, aesthetic and technical development of ceramics, an art which plays an important role in the formation of environment cultures and to help foster creative skills. The studio is open to all challenges of ceramic research, design and experiment. With these aims in mind, the ICS offers the following facilities Eight individual and shared studios with equipment Plaster workshops Modem kilns and traditional firing techniques Silkscreen printing and computer design facilities Museum of the ICS International collection of contemporary ceramics Exhibition galleries Library and extensive slide collection ICS - Museion The International Ceramics Studio was created in Kecskemét on the initiative of Hungarian artists and the wishes of artists from Central Europe who had felt culturally and ideologically isolated during their recent history. It was the wish for freedom and the desire to work alongside international artists that led to the founding of the centre in 1975. Since its foundation the ICS has been maintained by the local authority of Bács-Kiskun County, which is reknowned for supporting culture. A condition for invited artists at the Studio is that they leave some of their pieces made in the studio for the collection of the ICS. This is how a Museion has been created here - in the original, ancient meaning of the word: a place devoted to the Muses, where the source of inspiration is easy to find, where the created values are preserved and shown, where the works of the predecessors inspire the newcomers for perfection and where the collection of the pieces also enhances creativity. The current collection of the ICS comprises in excess of 3000 pieces of art work from 315 artists of 41 countries and the 5 continents. An important and unique collection of pieces all made in this Studio. The Museum and Gallery of the ICS, which houses the collection and gives the opportunity for exhibitions for contemporary artists from all over the world, was opened at the turn of the millennium in a new wing of the Studio. After 10 years hosting the Master School of the Hungarian University of Art and Crafts, we still have strong connections with the university but a process is under way to create a new university level, under and post graduate education on the basis of the accumulated experience of the past 25 years. A school where, alongside the professors, leading Hungarian artists and world­­famous teachers invited by the Studio, will teach while making their own work. Thus a special art complex is being created where, uniquely in the world, the invited masters, teachers and students live, create and learn together in an atmosphere where art, education and the respect for the values of different cultures, tolerance and internationality, in the noble meaning of the word, are in the air. The aim is to help a hundred year old dream come true, forgetting borders, ideologies and prejudice, that artists of nations and generations create a 21st century NEW MUSEION here. DANMARKS KERAMIKMUSEUM - THE MUSEUM OE INTERNATIONAL CERAMIC ART - DENMARK is among the youngest of the world's many institutions specialized in ceramic art and crafts. The phenomenon of living contemporary museums for what is the further development of the fields of arts & crafts, is still rather new in the Nordic countries. This explains why many of our museum visitors show sincere surprise when they experience what the museum represents. With its organization and activities the museum is in a lively interregnum between the art museums and the cultural historicai museums, and since a central part of the activities here - the studio activities - are innovative and didactic, the institution is also different from the more classical Danish museum types. The Museum of International Ceramic Art - Denmark is the only museum in Scandinavia combining a museum, galleries and studios for ceramics. The museum is the result of the uniting the 1 st of January 2002 of the Ceramic Art Museum of Grimmerhus in Middelfart, Funen, and the International Ceramic Center at Guldagergârd in Skælskor, Sealand. In Danish the unity is now named: Danmarks Keramikmuseum. Guldagergârd Grimmerhus houses the best facilities for exhibitions and presentation of the museum collection, just like the art, theoretical competence and research is placed here. However, Guldagergârd has the best facilities for progressive investigations in materials and special techniques of the ceramic art which makes a vital part of the basis for theoretical research and writing. Danmarks Keramikmuseum with its two premises serves the superior purpose of promoting the knowledge of the ceramic art. The collections of the Museum of International Ceramic Art - Denmark include studio ceramics, artists' ceramics, pottery and ceramic design from the postwar period, primarily after 1950 by artists from Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, England, Finland, Gennany, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland. Taiwan and USA. The collections contain owned and stored works. All works have been chosen for their esthetic and technical qualities; the collection represents significant Danish and foreign tendencies in contemporary international ceramic art. Every single work in the collection has been selected or approved by the Ceramic Board of Advisors of the museum, whose members have been appointed by the organizations Danish Arts & Crafts and The Danish Academy Council. Unlike many other Danish museums, this one was not established on the basis of one or several private collections. Through the first years, former Grimmerhus Museum of Ceramic Art owned only a few works, but in 1998 the museum could start increasing the owned collection. At the same time, the collection at Guldagergârd was established. After combining the Grimmerhus and Guldagergârd collections, this collection has several hundred owned works, registered in a database according to rules stated by the Danish government. The museum continues to add to the owned collection. The works in the collection are registered on index cards, sorted alphabetically, including the artist's name, country of origin, title of the work, year, description, measurements, materials/technique, condition/preservation, insurance amount etc. The index cards also include a photo of each work. This registration relates to an alphabetically sorted archive of the artists, containing their CV, articles and reviews, catalogues etc. The museum also has a database of information about the works organized with the most important information about the artists. This database is updated continuously. W AYS TO PARTICIPATE AT THE ICS 1. INVITED ARTISTS. Each year the studio selects a small number of artists, masters in their fields, from all over the world, to make on their individual work, teach on master courses and lecture to the programme participants. 2. ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE. Applications are welcomed at any time of the year. Please send a CV, 10 slides, photos or digital images of recent works and a description of the project to be developed at the ICS or your intended work programme to the ICS address. 3. COURSES AND MASTERCLASSES. The studio organises an annual series of courses with guest teachers from all over the world. Applications are accepted onto these courses at any time of the year. The studio will also accept applications from individuals to organise courses of a suitable standard using our facilities. Containers for art works partly sponsored by KAL Rt. “KAL-BOXES FOR EVERYONE” Anyone who knows the disadvantages of carton or wooden boxes will probably also know the advantages of aluminium storage boxes. Their use is extraordinarily universal, they can be useful in the food- and light industry as well as in trade and around the house. They are ideal for storing and transporting tools, fragile articles and special instruments. UNICEF is pleased to use containers from KAL Rt. for the delivery of international aid. “QUALITY OUT OF ALUMINIUM” Kecskeméti Alumínium Rt. (KAL Rt.) H-6000 Kecskemét, Fuzfás köz 3. Telefon: +36-76-482-233, Telefax: +36-76-481-408 E-mail: info@kalrt.hu Web: www.kalrt.hu For further information please contact the ICS on the address above or visit our website at: www.icshu.org design: Pócs Péter / Steve Mattison

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