VÅREN 2012 TILBRAKTE Katrine Køster Holst tre måneder på European Ceramic Work Centre i Nederland. Planen hennes for oppholdet var å eksperimentere og å utvikle sitt forhold til det som forbindes med keramikkens kanskje mest forførende trumfkort; glasur… Les hele presseteksten for utstillingen på Galleri Format (pdf)>

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[ BREAKING VIOLENTLY THE ACT OF RATIONALITY, the work of Katrine Køster Holst, text by Fleur van Muiswinkel 2013]

“ALTHOUGH ARTWORK ARE neither conceptual nor judgemental, they are logical.”, this line by the philosopher Theodor Adorno catches my attention while on a residency with Katrine Køster Holst around Easter this year [2013]. Køster Holst’s work is known for its strong systematic approach, which according to the artist herself, gives her freedom and creates space for the unexpected to happen […] The title Red Soil and the red cracks in the surface made me think about the images of the dried clay soil of the desert. As a result of gruesome torture by the sun and unimaginable temperature for hours, days and weeks, the clay starts to crack and deep traces start to appear. Although this reference to the landscape through the material of the clay the metaphorical capacity of ceramics seems to be limited. The way Køster Holst is able to take this abstraction a step further by her usage of the glaze makes me come back to the work again and again … Read the full text with images (pdf) >

_{Red Soil, foto: Kjell Ove Storvik}

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