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 Exhibition:
Earth Synergy - Indo-Korean contemporary ceramic exhibition
Venue: Forum Art Gallery, Chennai
Date: December 18 to 28, 2007
Close on the heels of the World Ceramic Biennale in Korea, two
exceptionally gifted ceramic artists, Kristine Michael from New
Delhi, India, and Jin Kyoung Kim, vice-president of the Korean
Society of Ceramic Art, Seoul, will jointly curate a unique
contemporary ceramic exhibition that will bring together top
ceramic artists from India and Korea.
‘Earth Synergy’, focusing on the contextual aspects of
contemporary ceramic art, opens on December 18, 2007, in
Chennai. Both countries straddle opposite ends
of the mammoth continent of Asia but the similarities and
commonalities of history are too startling when enumerated. Both
have ceramic traditions dating back to the Neolithic era and a
strong domestic /functional and ritual/philosophical base.
 Contemporary
ceramic art has multiple meanings and the realm of ceramics has
expanded to now include painting, sculpture, installation and
audio-visual images, the identity of individuals such as the
human body, details of everyday life, departures from tradition,
ecology and consumerism and social issues such as daily urban
life history, culture and politics.
In April 2007, four Indian ceramic artists
were invited to participate in the ‘Skins of Asia’ contemporary
exhibition at the 4th World Ceramic Biennale in Icheon in 2007.
This was the first time that India was represented at such a
prestigious event and InKo Centre supported Kristine Michael’s
 visit
to Korea to participate in this exhibition and to present a
keynote lecture titled ‘Traditional and Contemporary Ceramics in
South Asia’ at the International Ceramic Forum conference.
Following discussions between Kristine
Michael and Jin Kyoung Kim, it was agreed that the two
ceramicists would co-curate an exhibition that would bring
together top contemporary ceramicists from India and Korea.
‘Earth Synergy’, co-curated by Kristine
Michael and Jin Kyoung Kim, will focus on the contextual aspects
of contemporary ceramic art and will be arranged with four broad
themes – Freedom with Material; Metaphor of the Body; Poetics of
the Domestic, and Beyond History, Tradition and Culture.
The exhibition, involving top Indian and
Korean contemporary ceramic artists, will have over a 100 works
on display from December 18-28.
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