Properties & Qualities
Application
Architecture, Art, Product
Qualities
2D
Colour
Blue, White
Sample Information
Date of creation
05/01/2023
Dimensions
12x6x0,5 cm
Weight
300 g per tile
Culture & Context
The project “Blue Collar – White Collar” by the artist group AvArt, thematize crafts in the age of technology. Efficiency, productivity, and digitalization are well-known terms for value creation in our time. Technological development has changed human labour. Craftmanship, the work of the hand, is changing and challenged. What value does good craftmanship have if a machine can do it better and faster? A conceptual framework for the project has been to work with blue and white colours, as this has deep roots in the history of ceramics. The exhibition draws a line from today’s discussion to the first industrial revolution, where the Arts & Crafts movement became a counterforce to industrialization. Site-specific versions of the project have been shown at Nääs Konsthantverk, Gothenburg (2017), Buskerud Kunstsenter, Drammen (2018), the national exhibition ‘Crafts 2018’, Fredrikstad, and at the Korean International Ceramics Biennale (2019).
Process & Production
A work from the project: Puzzle work, consist of a series of tiles with motifs of blue and white shirt collars, in abstracted forms, made into an ornamental structure.
Recipe Details
Porcelain, Tin oxide and 0,5% and 2 % Cobalt.
Credits
Craft Maker
Arild Berg
Photographer
Arild Berg
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