Cluj International Ceramics Biennale is the first contemporary
ceramics biennale organized in Romania, and is aiming to become an
international meeting place for ceramic artists.
Expressing artistic sensibilities using the means of ceramic art is
on a growing scale amongst artists all over the world, and in the last
years the contemporary ceramics field started to be seen as a
contribution to the major arts. The first edition of the biennale has
the potential to change old mentalities, focusing on the contemporary
context and presenting the diversity of concepts and techniques in the
innovative field of contemporary ceramics.
Cluj International Ceramics Biennale (CICB 2013) is organized by
Ceramart Foundation and Ceramics Now Association, in partnership with
Cluj-Napoca Art Museum, the University of Arts and Design Cluj-Napoca,
and The Romanian Fine Artists Union. The ceramics biennale will be held
in several locations in the city of Cluj-Napoca, Romania, during October
9 – November 3, 2013.
Artists
from all over the world are invited to apply and participate at the
biennale with their ceramic works. Apply now (Deadline: May 30, 2013).
The CICB’s goal is to act as a contemporary meeting point for ceramic
artists from all over the world. This artistic event will introduce the
Romanian public to contemporary ceramic artists, practices and new
concepts in the field. The biennale will also get round national and
international institutions to work together with the aim of creating a
living environment for ceramics in the city of Cluj-Napoca.
The profound changes in the world today, whether socio-economic,
political or techno-scientific, have strongly influenced the artists’
search for new ways of expression, and engendered a change in how the
creative act is viewed, both in terms of means of expression and in
terms of message. Sensitive to the slightest changes of artistic canon in the global
Agora of contemporary arts, ceramic art evolves toward an
interdisciplinary and integrative strategy. The new concepts that are
gaining ground in the field attest to an aesthetic simbiosis with forms
of expressivity specific to other artistic fields, while at the same
time, retaining and accentuating – an experimental development specific
to the field. The outcome could form an ingenious and resourceful
alchemy.
Find out all you need to know here: www.ceramicsbiennale.com
