Gis Golabton-2019
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Gis Golabeton-2018
Statement:
This collection is a reflection of the current state of the ceramic workshops-handicrafts. As a graduate of the handicrafts field, I experienced a situation whose effects are also felt in this project. Handicrafts and observing their problems became an excuse for us to show ourselves in an atmosphere tired and involved in traditional excuses in preserving a fragmented heritage that is the result of neglecting the infrastructure but confined to decoration and intoxicated by the charms of the superstructure. Decorations whose appeal has also pale due to repetition.
However, the creation and understanding of these works was influenced by living in this particular time (1972-2019) and place (Iran-Tehran), and the possibility of accepting that handicrafts were only an allegory for revealing a part of the truth of the time.
Keyword: Decoration, repetition, infrastructure, Dastanpur Handicraft Workshop- Isfahan, Hossein Meybodi Handicraft Workshop- Meybod, Tavaslian Brothers Handicraft Workshop- Natanz, pottery
Project performed Process:
This collection was part of the project of 'paradigm shift' into the artist's own curation.
In this part, upon request from several ceramic workshops, packages of clay that had dried up due to the passage of time and were not workable were collected and draw with inspiration from common patterns in ceramic production. Considering that it is unusual to fired clay such dimensions and that they definitely cracking at this process of heating, but a futile attempt done to control to firing them in a very slow schedule.
Also, three cities (Natanz-Isfahan-Meybod), which are important centers of ceramic handicraft production, were visited and, by providing these pieces to an important workshop in each city, they were asked to draw the patterns on their products on these pieces.
These pieces were presented at the exhibition with the name of their workshop. Unfortunately, the craftsmen of the Natanz workshop, protesting that their names were not on the list of artists participating in the exhibition, did not allow the name of their workshop to be introduced, and as a matter of confidentiality, the order was not presented in the exhibition space!
Material: 15 packs of fired clay - glaze - firing temperature 1000 centigrade
● Gis Golabton is a poetic name for Iran.