Sonja Duò-Meyer. Ceramics

Book / Arnoldsche Artists Ceramic

Published: 25.05.2017

Editor:: Baumgartner & Annaheim

Text by:: Gabi Dewald, Frank Nievergelt, Larry Weinberg

Edited by:: Arnoldsche Art Publishers

Edited at:: Stuttgart

Edited on:: 2017

Technical data:: 160 pp., 24 × 26 cm, 127 colour ills. Hardcover

ISBN / ISSN:: 978-3-89790-486-6

Price:: from 38,00 €

Order:: Arnoldsche Art Publishers

Inner pages of the book

With exciting illustrations and informative essays, this first monograph on Sonja Duò-Meyer presents the development of a career in contemporary ceramic art now spanning over forty years.

Thanks to a conscious reduction in form and colour, the ceramics by the Swiss artist Sonja Duò-Meyer (b. 1953) unfurl incredible expressive power. The flowing silhouettes appear almost meditative, fixed points emerge in the light asymmetry of the forms, and a sophisticated play on light and shade develops. Surfaces, material, corpora and technique are interwoven through a minimalistic design concept celebrating void and stillness.

Photographs of objects as well as exhibition views show vessels, objects and wall installations from 1992 to 2017. A particular highlight are works and ideas from the ceramic centre Tajimi, where, as artist in residence, she engaged intensively with Japanese techniques.

Text in English and German