Matthew’s Mask is exhibited in Scotland
28.11.2015
One of the three masks Matthew made whilst in Bolzano featured in the wonderful show ‘The Ultimate Vessel’ that was organized by our friend Kendall Koppe in Glasgow.
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Opening
18.09.2015
More then 120 people attended the opening of “Dear Material Things”. We would like to thank each single one of them: from people who lived in the house some sixty years ago to curators and artists from the region. It was a joy sharing this first Thun Ceramic Residency exhibition with you.
Fabian came to visit us
09.07.2015
Fabian drove over the Alps late last night and came to pick up Matthew. They are on their way to the ‘Eternal Internet Brother/Sisterhood’ at Castello di Fosdinovo in Tuscany.
Artist in Residence 2015
08.07.2015
Matthew Lutz-Kinoy (b. 1984; New York, US) lives and works in Berlin and Los Angeles. His studio method is interdisciplinary and recent projects take the form of dance, sculpture installation, ceramics, printmaking, publications, video, and painting. He completed the Rijksakademie international artist residency in Amsterdam in 2010 and his undergraduate degree at The Cooper Union School of Art, New York in 2007. Recent solo exhibitions include: ‘Port’, Freedman Fitzpatrick, Los Angeles; ‘Lutz-Kinoy’s Loose Bodies’, Elaine – MGK, Basel (2013); ‘Matthew’s Secret’, Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam (2013); ‘Werk is Free / Be Free! May Day’, Outpost, Norwich, UK (2013); and KERAMIKOS – a touring exhibition with Natsuko Uchino at the Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen; Kunsthalle Baden-Baden; Elaine Museum für Gegenwarts Kunst, Basel and Villa Romana Florence (2012-2013).
Dear Material Things
curated by Claire Shea
Cassie Griffin
Matthew Lutz-Kinoy
Jesse Wine
Curated by Claire Shea, Director of the Cass Sculpture Foundation in West Sussex, UK, the exhibition will take place in the old apartment of Contessa Lene Thun, the mind and heart behind the first THUN ceramics. Left untouched since her passing in 2004, the apartment is home to some of the earliest ceramics Lene worked on as well as the last prototypes she experimented with, that still sit on her desk in the position in which she left them.
The exhibition takes its title from an essay entitled ‘The Redemption of Objects’ by Italian writer, Italo Calvino. In it, Calvino looks closely at the life and work of Mario Praz, an Italian critic of art and literature and scholar of English Literature. Praz considered himself a materialist and defended the importance of the sensual presence that ‘things’ held for him. In an argument cited by Calvino, Praz wrote, ‘Because such is the nature of these dear material things amidst which we live our lives that you can’t deny one of them without denying all of them at the same time.’ This resonates through the exhibition as it looks at the dialogue created between the personal objects in Lene Thun’s home and the new works produced in residence this summer by Cassie Griffin, Matthew Lutz-Kinoy and Jesse Wine.
