Andrea Wagner
White porcelain with its beautiful blue Chinese pattern decorations and these objects became instant collectibles for Royalty and the rich in western countries during seafaring times due to their limited and costly access and mysterious material. This also started an extensive searching to find the secret recipe for recreating the beautiful white stoneware wherin the Chinese patterns were copied in order to create their version of Chinoiserie. In this way these cultural objects spread that beauty over the world.
In today's heated discussion there would be heated finger pointing and calling it theft of cultural apropriation, something that wasn't around in the 17th and 18th centuries, otherwise Western culture would not have had such a rich history of how porcelain-making and the blossoming of cultural influence . For the project I combined an original Chinese shard with detail images from Chinoiserie porcelain and stoneware from different countries which echo the original pattern details.The final blossom-like shapes of the jewelry suggest an unfolding expansion of this cultural influence from China outwards into western countries.
有美丽蓝色中式花纹装饰的白瓷，在航海时代，这些器物因其稀有、昂贵以及神秘材质，立即成为西方国家皇室和富人的收藏品。这也开始了一场广泛的寻找重现美丽白色瓷器的秘方搜寻，中国图案被复制，以创造西方的中式风格。通过这种方式，陶瓷将这种美传播到了世界各地。在今天激烈的讨论中，会有指责称其为对文化产权的盗窃，而这在17、18世纪是不存在的，否则西方文化就不会有如此丰富的制瓷历史和文化影响力的绽放。在这个项目中，我将一个原始的中国碎瓷片与来自不同国家的中式陶瓷的图案结合起来，它们与原始图案细节相呼应。最后，首饰的花朵状形状暗示了这种文化影响从中国向西方国家的扩展。
About Artist
Andrea Wagner, born in Freiburg i.Br./Germany, lived 12 years in Canada growing up outside of Montreal till completing Highschool. Since 1997 she owns a studio in Amsterdam. From1993 - 1994, she studied at STAATLICHE ZEICHENAKADEMIE, Hanau, Germany, and from 1994 - 1997 she studied at GERRIT RIETVELD ACADEMY, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, under Ruudt Peters. She is a recipient of several prestigious grants and financial support for projects through organizations such as the Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design. Her work is featured internationally in exhibitions and private as well as public collections - such as Museum of Arts&Design New York, Museum of Fine Arts/Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston/USA, Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal/CAN, Françoise van den Bosch collection/Amsterdam, Netherlands Textile Museum/Tilburg, Netherlands. She is curator and organizer of touring exhibition GOLDEN CLOGS, DUTCH MOUNTAINS to seven venues in the United States and Canada in 2007 and 2008, and co-curator of the exhibition WALKING THE GRAY AREA in Mexico City, Mexico in 2010.
安德里亚·瓦格纳，出生于德国弗莱堡，成长于加拿大蒙特利尔郊外，直到高中毕业。自1997年起，她在阿姆斯特丹拥有了自己的工作室。1993年至1994年，她在德国哈瑙金工艺术学院学习，1994年至1997年，她在荷兰阿姆斯特丹的格里特·里特维尔德学院学习，师从Ruudt Peters。她曾获多项国际著名奖项和项目资助，如荷兰视觉艺术与设计基金会的奖金。她的作品广泛出现在国际展览和公共收藏中，比如纽约艺术与设计博物馆、休斯顿美术馆、美国波士顿美术馆、蒙特利尔美术馆、阿姆斯特丹的弗朗索瓦丝·范登·博世收藏，阿姆斯特丹纺织博物馆等等。2007年和2008年，她作为策展人组织了展览“GOLDEN CLOGS”、“DUTCH MOUNTAINS”，在美国和加拿大的七个城市巡回展出；2010年，她担任墨西哥城展览“WALKING THE GRAY AREA”的联合策展人。