The National Handicrafts and Handlooms Museum and Pro Helvetia - Swiss Arts Council present a contemporary ceramics exhibition 1001 cups. The exhibition will travel to India, China, Korea, France and Switzerland.
India
Venue: Crafts Museum, New Delhi
Opening: 30 November 2009
On view from 1 December - 31 December 2009
The exhibition pays tribute to a traditional little tea cup from India and aims to demonstrate the rich diversity that exists in present-day ceramics and thus share with the general public a wide variety of approaches to the use of ceramic materials.
Exhibition flyer
List of 100 participating ceramists
Curator, Claude Presset's note
The following Indian potters and ceramists were invited to contribute for the exhibition:
Aarti Vir, Hyderabad - salt glazed stoneware
Ira Chaudhuri, New Delhi - glazed stoneware
Jayanti Naik, Ahmedabad - terra cotta wood fired.
Jugal Kishore Sankhyan, Andretta - smoked blackware
Kristine Michael, New Delhi - stoneware
Saraben Kumbhar, Kutch - terra cotta.
Laxmi Narayan Prajapati, Orchha - terracotta.
Lekha Bhagat, New Delhi - smoked inlaid blackware
Pandurangiah Daroz, New Delhi - glazed terracotta
Shampa Shah, Bhopal - glazed stoneware
Yogesh Mahida, Baroda - glazed stoneware
The workshops
A series of workshops are being organised in Delhi and Bhopal.
Traditional craftspeople and studio potters have been invited to participate in the workshop being conducted by Swiss ceramist and curator Claude Presset, Anja Seiler-Kopmann, Lise Cassani and Hughes de Crousaz.
1 – 4 December 2009 at and in collaboration with the Crafts Museum, New Delhi.
7 – 9 December 2009 at and in collaboration with the Bharat Bhavan, Bhopal.
The Exhibition tour
China
Venue: Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou
On view from 5 March - 11 April 2010
Korea
Venue: Icheon World Ceramic Center
On view from 1 June - 15 July 2009
France
Venue: Musée de la Ville de Biot
On view from 1 - 30 September 2010
Venue: Viaduc des Arts, Paris
On view from 7 October - 12 November 2010
Venue: Musée la Piscine a Roubaix
On view from 1 December - 28 February 2011
Switzerland
Venue: Musèe Ariana, Geneva
On view from April - July 2011
Venue: Musèe des Beaux-arts
On view from 25 September - 13 November 2011
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