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FASSBAENDER Violette, ceramic, permanent artist of Galerie Capazza since 2011

“Violette Fassbaender, natural inspiration


These sculptures cause an alternation between the unique object and the object part of a whole. There is a gap between fragment-objects, splinters, fallen rocks, and unique objects defined in the imagination.


A dialogue is created, born from the rhythm of the different volumes containing these sculptures, and the tension of the vaults whose bulge is different.


These sculptures first give sensations of weight, suggesting stone, rock, petrifaction. And yet, they often rely on a single point of support and swing as soon as they are touched because they are not anchored in the ground, and thus are very light and a sensitivity open to any vibration.


What I try to do is to grasp the laws of shapes and structures produced by nature, made ​​in connection with my own creative will of forms.


I try to approach the birth of forms from random and conscious effort. I try to approach the meeting point between order and chaos”.


Violette Fassbaender, November 2006

Biography

1958
Born in Bâle, Switzerland.

1978 - 80
Student "Tekisui Institut d'art de Céramique", Ashiya, Japan.

1981 - 86
Assistante de la céramiste Takako Araki, Nishinomiya, Japan.

1986 -
Studio in Bâle, Switzerland.

2001
Member of the International Academy of Ceramics (AIC).

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Symposiums

1992
Rakuworkshop Jena, Germany

1996
Symposium international au studios de Kecskemét, Hungary

2001
(artist in residence) à Seto, Japan

2002
(artist in residence) à Shigaraki, Japan

2005
(artist in residence) à Shigaraki, Japan

Symposium and festival d’art céramique à Seto, Japan

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Public collections

The Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park, Japan

Cultural Center Seto, Japan

Musée Ariana, Genève, Swiss

Musée de la porcelaine, Riga, Latvia

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Selected exhibitions

2014
Ceramics Biennale, Saint-Clergue, Swiss

2013
Ceramica contemporanea svizzera, Museo d’arte Mendrisio, Swiss
2012   Invitée par le „Gruppe 83“, Musée de la ville Bad Hersfeld, Germany
2011   Exposition au Château pendant les „Keramiktage Oldenburg“, Germany   Galerie Capazza, „Matières à réflexion“, Nançay, France

2010
Galerie Metzger, Johannesberg, Germany

2008
Musée de la Céramique de Staufen, Germany

2007
AR-T-GILLAE II, exposition céramique contemporaine, Koksijde, Belgium

European Triennale of Glass and ceramics, Mons, Belgium

„Porcelains“ at the Ludwigsburg Castle, Germany

2006
AIC members exhibition, Musée d’Art, Riga, Latvia

„I’m Dreaming of...“, Angela Mellor Gallery, Ely, United Kingdom

2005
Galerie Heller, Heidelberg, Germany

Céramique Suisse, Contemporary Art Museum, Baltimore, USA

2004
Galerie Metzger, Johannesberg, Germany

AIC members exhibition in Icheon, Korea

2003
Keramiek, exposition internationale, Vichte, Belgium

World Ceramic Biennale 2003 Icheon, Korea

2002
Fonction fiction, Bienniale of the swiss ceramics Association (ACS)

Musée d’art et d’histoire, Neuchâtel, Switzerland

Swiss ceramics exhibition in Shigaraki and Aichi, Japan

Musée d’art et d’histoire, Hüfingen, Germany

Galerie le Vieux-Bourg, Lonay, Switzerland

2001
Exhibition at the "Ceramics and Glass Art Center" in Seto, Japan

2000
4 Ceramists at the Kunstforum Kirchberg, Switzerland

„Feu sacré“, Biennale of the swiss ceramics Association, Lucerne, Switzerland

„Small ceramics sculptures“, Kunstforum Kirchberg, Switzerland

1999
Galerie Robert Jaccard, Carouge, Geneva, Switzerland

1998
Kunsthuis Ingrith Desmet, Heule, Belgium

199
Maison de la Céramique, Mulhouse, France

Galerie Maya Guidi, Carouge-Geneva, Switzerland

Galerie Byfang 21, Bâle, Switzerland

Galerie le Vieux-Bourg, Lonay-près-Morges, Switzerland

1996
Exposition de groupe, Kunstforum Kirchberg, Switzerland

Galerie Objekta, Kreuzlingen, Switzerland

International ceramic Symposium in Kecskemét, Hungary

Galerie Kasahara, Japan

1995
„Terres de Femmes", Galerie Argile, Bruxelles, Belgium

Galerie Kinkel, Leverkusen, Germany

1994
Galerie Desinfarkt, Berne, Switzerland

1993
Group exhibition at Berowergut, Riehen, Switzerland

1992
Raku Workshop, Jena, Germany

1991
swiss ceramics Association Biennale(ACS), Winterthour, swiss ceramics Association

Group exhibition, Musée cantonal de Liestal, Switzerland

1985
Galerie „La Pola", Osaka, Japan

1983 - 85
Several Group exhibitions in Kobe, Osaka and Tokyo, Japan

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Articles

Jane Perrryman, Naked Clay, A & C Black 2004 London

Neue Keramik, revue No 6/2004, Höhr-Grenzhausen, Germany

KeramikMagazinEuropa, revue No 5/2008, Frechen, Germany

   

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