Exhibition I visited
I also visited an exhibition the George Muscat
has displayed at the St James Cavallier in Valletta. The date that I visited
the exhibition was on the 8th of March 2013. And the name of the exhibition was
Forces. This exhibition was all about ceramics where we can see that George
Muscat worked with the Raku, Stoneware, Stoneware paper clay, Paper clay /Pit
Fired Earthenware, Stoneware Black Paper Clay, Stoneware Fired with melted
glass, Stoneware Black Clay and Gilded, Earthenware Terracotta Clay, Terracotta
Gilded.
Facebook
Date: 8thMarch2013
Name of Practitioners: George Muscat
Title of Exhibition: Forces
Title of work: Facebook
This art piece is
named as the Facebook it is made from ceramics. George Muscat used the Raku to
make these faces. All these faces were made between the year of 2011-2013 which
are wall hanging and the dimensions is 77x325cm.
My opinion
In this piece of art
work we can see a lot the formal element of the line and the texture also the
shape and the shades of the faces. We can see some real straight lines that
create an amazing texture on the faces. Also the shade of the face helps you
see more the smile or even the sad face.
It might be shown that the lines
creates the rough texture
but in the other way the
lines won’t be felt when you are touching
the piece of art. The artist
created all the types of
faces such as faces
that has open eyes
and also closed eyes. It
also shows us as I
said before the smiling parts and also faces
that are sad. The artist
also in the middle of all these faces
he added a mirror so that the person who is seeing the exhibition will be able
to see the identity and
also the status of the
participant. He says these words “like the social network, all friends
have concerned to be liked by the artist through having their face replicated”.
About raku
Raku is a type of clay
that is created from a specific ceramic firing method which the process
is that you use both the fire and the smoke and that is
how the cracks come. The piece is bisque fire and then it is glazed and
undergoes a raku firing process.
As we are talking
about the raku it has a special kilin for itself that reaches the temperature
of about 1,800˚F that it is about 982˚C.
the pottery must remain in
the kilin for
about 30 minutes it is
the order of
the firing process. By
using the tool
that is called the
raku tongs you will put the
piece while it is hot and glowing inside a metal can
full of combustible materials. The heat will be emit
from the pottery and because of the materials
that we find inside
the can it
will catch fire.
After the
materials cause the
firing a lid will
be added onto the can and the pottery is still
being inside the can. That is how the raku ceramic will have that
type of texture and the cracks which the process is called post fire reduction.
Torso
This is
also an art piece that is made out from ceramics
which George Muscat exhibited
during the exhibition . This is another art piece that inspired me
during the visit of the exhibition called Forces.
Name of Practitioners: George Muscat
Title of exhibition: Forces
Title of work: Torso
This ceramic art piece
that it is named as Torso is made out of the paper clay and pit Fired
Earthenware. It is made during the year of 2012 and it is a wall hanging. The
measurement of this art piece is 89x40cm.
My opinion
I choose this
art piece because it had some
interesting features such
as that the hand
of this art piece
is separately but still
attached to the body . It also inspired me how he made
sort of shelves and added the vases into the body. We also can see how the
artist made the colours and developed an interesting texture. As formal elements
we can see that there are lines that are curved and also straight lines. Also
we can see some rough texture around the hand of the body.
We also can
see the close up of the
part that inspired me
where there is 2 vases.
Freedom
This is
also an art piece that is made out from ceramics
which George Muscat exhibited
during the exhibition . This is another art piece that inspired me
during the visit of the exhibition called Forces.
Date: 8th March 2013
Name of Practitioners: George Muscat
Title of exhibition: Forces
Title of work: Freedom
This art piece is
named as Freedom and it is made by ceramics where the artist George Muscat used
the technique of melted glass and also used the stoneware. This art piece is
made during the year of 2012. It is designed to be a wall hanging and the
measurements of this piece of art work are 76x136cm.
My
opinion
I choose to talk
about this art piece
because it has been used a different technique
on this wall hanging piece
because the artist used
the glass in this art
piece where when you fire
the object the
glass melts and give
us this interesting texture and
interesting feeling. The artist also used a different type of clay that is
stoneware clay and he made an abstract shape. We also can see the formal elements
in this piece of art such as the texture as
I said before we can see that it
is rough but when you touch it feels soft and also it has
the health and safety because it
won’t be sharp because
the glass is melted. We also can
see that the texture at the edge inside looks rough. We also can see the colours that the
artist added on the
piece called freedom where we
can see that he
matched the colours to the colour of the glass.
Migration
Name of Practitioners: George Muscat
Title of exhibition: Forces
Title of work: Migration
I choose
this art piece that is
made with ceramics has also
been done with a different
technique where I think that the artist to
make the fish
used the technique
of the mold. He also used the
stoneware and this art piece is done during the year of 2012. The purpose of this
art piece is to be a wall hanging and the measurements are 52x65cm.
My
opinion
I choose to
talk about this
art piece because
it also has a
different technique from the
other pieces that the artist made. I think that the artist used the
technique of the mold where he made the form of the fish with the mold. As the
formal elements we can see a lot
the texture on the fish where it look that it
is rough where also the background
looks rough. apart the
interesting texture that we can see
on the background we also can see the colour that it is also interesting where we also can see that it has more than one colour.
Galaxy
Name of Practitioners: George Muscat
Title of exhibition: Forces
Title of work: Galaxy
The art piece
that is made
by ceramics is named
as Galaxy which the artist used a different type of clay that is Earthenware Terracotta clay.
This art piece is also made
in the year of 2012 and it is
also a
wall hanging the diameter of this art piece is 52cm.
My
opinion
As from the other pieces
this one has a different
shape which as we can see it has
the shape of a circle but it has
some of the edges that are squashed so it gives
it a unique circle shape. I also
think that the artist used the slip technique where we can see the green. As a
texture we can see that where there is the green part it will be
felt as a rough texture but
the other parts
looks smooth. We can see that how
the color is made it also gives you the impression that it is rough but that it
is made with the colour The colour the artist used matches a lot and made the
art piece looks more interesting.
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