1 april tm 30 juli 2006
für zeitgenössische Glaskunst in Europa
Ellen Urselmann wint The European young
artist price.
Bijna 1200 werken van 486 kunstenaars
uit 27 Europese landen hebben deelgenomen
aan de wedstrijd. Door de internationale jury is
er een selectie gemaakt van 236 werken van
173 kunstenaars uit 24 landen, die deelnemen
aan de tentoonstelling. Uit deze groep zijn
7 winnaars gekozen.
The Barbara Koppelstätter-Preis für junge
kunstler, één van de zeven prijzen
is gewonnen door Ellen Urselmann.
Kunstsammlungen Der Veste Coburg
96450 Coburg
Duitsland
Kunstsammlungen Der Veste Coburg
heeft werk van Urselmann in haar collectie.
artikel in catalogus:
Coburger glassprice 2006
Ellen Urselmann, from the generation of the under-30s, whose two works attracted my attention right from the first moment of our work as a jury. At a purely formal level, the balance between the parts made of blown glass and the exogenous elements, which are well-chosen and integrated, is original and powerful; parallel to this, the effect of the materials and colours- one opalescent with an interaction between blue and white [glass and ceramics] and the other transparent featuring the interplay of black with white and reflective materials [glass, plastic, metal and a photographic negative on glass and mirror]-proves that she masters her craft and reveals genuine elegance.
These formal qualities do not exclude associations with ideas that are more sentimental and even pathetic but pathetic in a way that knows the meaning of a smile and self-irony. This elegant humour also transforms – yet never denies – the effect of kitsch and bad taste suggested by the Delft figure” or by the sink outlet, the route that our dirty water takes as it goes to the underground sewers.
Fragile like bubbles of blown glass, the tension of an imaginary kiss between ”big children” evokes an instable equilibrium and the edge of an abyss!
A cliché of childhood, reflected in a mirror and like an impression dug deep into the convolutions of a brain or the heart; a whole universe of memories and sensations that can disappear in an instant like a soap bubble in the bottom of the sink or through a gap in the memory.
It is the force of suggestion of these works that attracted me – between the games of adults and the memories of childhood, between the serious and the trivial, the funny and pathetic.
Jean-Luc Olivié, member of the jury.
ISBN 3-87472-086-1
