Object
Landscape Multiple
Reused porcelain
8,50 x 53,00 x 43,00 cm
, 2013
RKM 41-2013
Purchase
On display in Inspiration East Asia room 3
Description
The Finland-Swedish ceramicist Caroline Slotte has chosen not to use clay as a material and instead works with existing porcelain objects. In general, she uses services with printed décor from the 1800s and early 1900s, carefully sawing or sanding away areas to change their artistic expression. Röhsska Museum’s plate belongs to her Landscape Multiple series. In this work, five plates from a blue and white flintware service have been joined in a way that gives depth to the bottom of the plate, where the outlines of the sawn out motifs are like old-fashioned theatre sets. A man and woman are conversing in the foreground, and behind them is a pleasant park with trees, water and buildings. The motif reflects a romantic nature worship grounded in art and lyricism, while the industrially manufactured service items have yet another story on another plane. As mass-produced consumer goods, they are examples of the arrival of modern times and provide advance warning of a new view on mankind’s place in the world. The work is typical of how Caroline Slotte uses historic objects as holders of memory and how she, through subtle manipulations, allows us to see new details in them.
Literature
Skiaskope. Gränslöst 1700-tal speglat i nuet, red. Kristoffer Arvidsson, Göteborgs Konstmuseum, Göteborg 2016, ill. p. fig.21
Exhibition History
Inspiration Östasien, Göteborg, Röhsska museet, 2019 - tillsvidare
Nytt i samlingen, Göteborg, Röhsska museet, 17/09/2013 - 06/10/2013