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New Jazz

Sculpture
2014 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Born in Jena, Germany, in 1979, Johannes Nagel studied ceramics and the University of Art and Design Burg Giebichenstein, Halle, from 2002 to 2008. He has also served apprenticeships and undertaken residencies in Canada, Japan, and Scotland. He has exhibited widely in Germany and, increasingly, internationally.

Nagel's work is based around the exploration of vessel forms. He creates works that stand as visualisations of the creative process. This for Nagel frequently involves elements of improvisation, the artist embracing techniques that are seemingly unorthodox and startingly direct. As he has stated, "the subject of my work is the improvised and provisional".

Nagel was one of three artists selected for a three-person Design Show in the Artists House at the New Art Centre, Roche Court, curated by Sarah Griffin. This piece New Jazz is from the Isolator series of stacked thrown forms that simultaneously recall industrially-made ceramic electrical insulators and the fused waster-stackes of ceramics that result from catastrophic failures in ceramic firings. This object exposes process in a fresh, direct and improvisational way. Intensely sculptural, the resulting work is visually arresting and powerful.

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Object details

Categories
Object type
Titles
  • New Jazz (assigned by artist)
  • Isolator (series title)
Materials and techniques
Porcelain, stoneware, thrown, assembled, sand, glaze, broken.
Brief description
'New Jazz' a stoneware and porcelain thrown and assembled sculpture, from the 'Isolator' series, Johannes Nagel, Germany, 2014.
Physical description
Thrown and assembled sculpture od porcelain and stoneware in the form of a stack of plates that have fallen over and fused together in the kiln. The outside is glazed in parts, it has pieces of debree and sand engrained into the glaze. The top and other parts have been purposefully broken to reveal the un-glazed clay beneath.
Dimensions
  • Height: 73cm
  • Diameter: 27cm
Credit line
Acquired through the generosity of Gerard and Sarah Griffin
Summary
Born in Jena, Germany, in 1979, Johannes Nagel studied ceramics and the University of Art and Design Burg Giebichenstein, Halle, from 2002 to 2008. He has also served apprenticeships and undertaken residencies in Canada, Japan, and Scotland. He has exhibited widely in Germany and, increasingly, internationally.

Nagel's work is based around the exploration of vessel forms. He creates works that stand as visualisations of the creative process. This for Nagel frequently involves elements of improvisation, the artist embracing techniques that are seemingly unorthodox and startingly direct. As he has stated, "the subject of my work is the improvised and provisional".

Nagel was one of three artists selected for a three-person Design Show in the Artists House at the New Art Centre, Roche Court, curated by Sarah Griffin. This piece New Jazz is from the Isolator series of stacked thrown forms that simultaneously recall industrially-made ceramic electrical insulators and the fused waster-stackes of ceramics that result from catastrophic failures in ceramic firings. This object exposes process in a fresh, direct and improvisational way. Intensely sculptural, the resulting work is visually arresting and powerful.
Collection
Accession number
C.227-2014

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Record createdAugust 29, 2014
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