Double Phantasy - Holzbrand mit Marc Lancet und Markus Böhm, 16.-21.7.2012

Double Phantasy – ein kalkspatz-Seminar in Alt Gaarz

 Lancet stoking

Nachdem Masakazu Kusakabe 2011 ein Seminar in Alt Gaarz geleitet hat, kam 2012 Marc Lancet, der Co-Autor des Buches „Japanische Holzbrandkeramik“, nach Mecklenburg (siehe auch den Artikel von Marc über Kusakabe im Töpferblatt 2011/1).

Es passiert nicht allzu häufig, dass sich Dozenten zu einem gemeinsamen Seminar hinreißen lassen, entsteht doch meist geradezu automatisch eine Art Wettbewerb um die Aufmerksamkeit der Teilnehmer und häufig entstehen auch Meinungsverschiedenheiten über die beste Art, irgendetwas zu tun. Schon allein die Diskussionen darüber, wie zu brennen ist, können am Ofen reichlich Zeit einnehmen, vom Abkühlen wollen wir gar nicht erst reden. Aber gerade diese Meinungsverschiedenheiten, Reibungen und Diskussionen sind oft das Interessanteste und häufig auch das Lehrreichste für die Seminarteilnehmer. Amerika und Deutschland, Kunst und Handwerk, rauchlos und entspannt im Gespräch - und bei der Arbeit.

Entstanden ist die Idee eigentlich aus dem Wunsch, einen gemeinsamen Brand im „Laid Back“-Ofen in Alt Gaarz zu machen und dabei Spaß zu haben. Dann kam die Idee, diesen Spaß mit anderen zu teilen und einen Workshop daraus zu machen. Marcs Idee für den Titel war nur leider etwas lang: „Marc testring ziehenand Markus having fun with laid back wood-firing the smokeless kiln.“

Es entstand eine tolle Zusammenarbeit, bei der wir beide und natürlich auch die Teilnehmer viel gelernt haben. Und als dann noch das Wetter besser und der Ofen am Samstag geöffnet wurde und richtig tolle Ergebnisse freigab, war alles perfekt.

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CV Marc Lancet

 

Marc Lancet lives in Davis, California, with his wife Annette and his daughter Evan. He is the author of Japanese Wood-fired Ceramics with Masakazu Kusakabe of Miharu, Japan. Lancet’s work is in numerous collections, including The Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Center of Shigaraki, Japan; The International Ceramic Center, Skaelskor, Denmark, the United States Embassy in Estonia, and the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco.


Salt Circle 15, Firepaint Series; 2009; Stoneware, Slips, Stains, Glazes and Natural Ash and Flame Deposit;15” x 11” x 2”; Marc Lancet An exhibition of Lancet’s work and the German ceramic artist Sabine Turpeinen will be featured at the Museum Fluxus + in Potsdam, Germany, from August 25 to September 8, 2012. For me information, go to www.fluxus-plus.de. Lancet traveled to Shanghai and Jingdezhen, China in 2011 to present exhibitions, workshops, lectures and book signings in celebration of the publication of the Chinese language edition of Japanese Wood-fired Ceramics.
Lancet’s work appears in Clay and Glazes for the Ceramic Artist by Rhodes and Hopper, Hands in Clay by Speight and Toki, Functional Pottery by Hopper, Ceramic Extruder for the Studio Potter by Conrad, and Raku, A Practical Approach by Brafman. His writing and art have been published in Ceramics Monthly, Ceramics: Art and Perspective, Ceramics Technical, Clay Times, The Log Book and Turning Wheel.
In Estonia for July 2011 Lancet was the U.S. representative to the Kohila Ceramic Symposium. Lancet joined 12 artists from around the world for the Kohila Symposium, an international gathering of artists to create work, wood-fire and exhibit together for the month of July, 2010.
In 2001, Lancet was an invited artist in England and Denmark. At the Gillingham School in Gillingham, England he directed a public art project involving art students and local artists which has been honored with a national award for best artist-in-residency in England for 2001. At the International Ceramic Center in Skaelskor, Denmark, Lancet exhibited his participatory installation “100 Views of Home” in the center’s Kartofel Haus Gallery. During his five week residency Lancet created sculptures and ceramic vessels, fired their unique wood kiln and presented workshops.
Lancet was an inaugural invited artist at The Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park in July, 1992. In Miharu, Japan in 1992 he began his collaboration with ceramic artist Masakazu Kusakabe which has included exhibitions, workshops, lectures, kiln building and the writing of “Japanese Wood-fired Ceramics”. The collaboration continues to this day. Lancet was an inaugural invited artist at The Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park in July, 1992.
For six months of 1991 Lancet created sculpture as an artist-in-residence at Gladding, McBean & Co., one of America’s few remaining large-scale architectural terra cotta manufacturers. He was surrounded by kilns larger than football fields and industrial processes capable of producing building facades 35 stories tall.
Lancet is in his twenty fifth year as professor of three-dimensional art at Solano Community College. He has been a visiting professor of sculpture at Portland State University and at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He exhibits and teaches internationally.
Lancet holds a Master of Fine Arts degree in sculpture and a Master of Arts degree in Education from UCSB. In addition he has studied at L'Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux Arts, Paris, France and apprenticed in fine art casting at a foundry also in Paris.

 

 

Bilder vom Seminar