Decorazione e Readymade with Robert Cooper
Robert Cooper's workshop will develop around the assembly technique as a method for creating and constructing works of different shapes and sizes. The student will be invited to produce a wide range of shapes and objects obtained from the pressure of clay on plaster and ceramic molds, but also through the slab and colombine technique.
During the preparation of the objects, the artist will demonstrate a series of decoration techniques with engobes and glazes: printing on plaster surfaces, silk-screen printing on ceramics, carving on clay and plaster, use of papers and fabrics for the creation of textures and surfaces through pressure or immersion in clay, painting with engobes and enamels.
Through these techniques each participant will have the opportunity to realize his own artistic object with an original and personalized decoration! This workshop is ideal for beginners and intermediates.
The course will be held in English and will be translated into Italian. Limited seats.
Saturday 16 March from 11am to 1pm and from 2pm to 5pm
Sunday 17 March from 10am to 1pm and from 2 to 5pm
Robert Cooper , british ceramist of consolidated fame and success, has been exhibiting for many years in both the United Kingdom and other countries.His studio, where he works and collects all the materials that he uses in his pieces, is in the characteristic Vanguard Court area in south London. His work is based on the reinterpretation of various objects and materials that give his pieces a powerful narrative content.
He is fascinated by the persistence and transformation of objects, and, as starting-points for his works, he often uses found objects, such as ceramic fragments that he picks up on the banks of the Thames, and other recycled items infused with their own life and a preceding function.
He recovers and re-uses a variety of materials, including clays, oxides, glazes, waste materials from his lessons, ceramic transfers, printed motifs from industrial culture, and even parts of preceding works, recombining them and creating a new narrative that gives the final object new life, with additional, multiple layers of meanIng.
During the preparation of the objects, the artist will demonstrate a series of decoration techniques with engobes and glazes: printing on plaster surfaces, silk-screen printing on ceramics, carving on clay and plaster, use of papers and fabrics for the creation of textures and surfaces through pressure or immersion in clay, painting with engobes and enamels.
Through these techniques each participant will have the opportunity to realize his own artistic object with an original and personalized decoration! This workshop is ideal for beginners and intermediates.
The course will be held in English and will be translated into Italian. Limited seats.
Saturday 16 March from 11am to 1pm and from 2pm to 5pm
Sunday 17 March from 10am to 1pm and from 2 to 5pm
Robert Cooper , british ceramist of consolidated fame and success, has been exhibiting for many years in both the United Kingdom and other countries.His studio, where he works and collects all the materials that he uses in his pieces, is in the characteristic Vanguard Court area in south London. His work is based on the reinterpretation of various objects and materials that give his pieces a powerful narrative content.
He is fascinated by the persistence and transformation of objects, and, as starting-points for his works, he often uses found objects, such as ceramic fragments that he picks up on the banks of the Thames, and other recycled items infused with their own life and a preceding function.
He recovers and re-uses a variety of materials, including clays, oxides, glazes, waste materials from his lessons, ceramic transfers, printed motifs from industrial culture, and even parts of preceding works, recombining them and creating a new narrative that gives the final object new life, with additional, multiple layers of meanIng.