"A BOOK SEALED INSIDE THE FORM RECORDS THE CREATION OF THIS OBJECT. GUACCA IS A RELIQUARY OF RELATED CREATIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE PROCESSES REFLECTING THE HISTORY OF ITS OWN MAKING."
GUACCA was conceived as a work that would both question and safeguard its own secret inner life, suggesting reflection on the significance of being. Focussing on the nature of faith, it seeks to affirm its own reality. The piece has to do with the manner in which a book can become a memory, and the way in which ashes or reliquaries and their contents are things on which one can focus attention as remnants of the past.
Porcelain form fired to 1210-1240°C (oxidising) Each form containing a single copy of the book GUACCA (33mm x 23.6 mm). Title set in Times 14 point, output to laser printer on 80gsm copy paper Laminated using Mumro Diamond Laminator, laminating sleeve 160 micron / colour clear. Ring bound with 1.55 nichrome wire. Eighteen pages, each with an image of the porcelain form, photocopied using Canon B/W copier Copy scanned by Epson scanner processed through Photoshop 3, output to laser printer on both sides of 80gsm copy paper. The porcelain form housed in an artist-made card box with paper title label. An edition of 200.
GUACCA has been widely exhibited nationally and internationally including Kerameikon, International Postmodern Ceramics Festival, Varazdin, Croatia and is held in both private and public collections including the British Art Library V&A, London and the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris.
Title: GUACCA
Artist: Joan Ainley
Date: 1995
Medium: Porcelain form fired to 1210-1240°C (oxidising) Each form containing a single copy of the book GUACCA (33mm x 23.6 mm)
Stock Number: RB05642
"A BOOK SEALED INSIDE THE FORM RECORDS THE CREATION OF THIS OBJECT. GUACCA IS A RELIQUARY OF RELATED CREATIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE PROCESSES REFLECTING THE HISTORY OF ITS OWN MAKING."
GUACCA was conceived as a work that would both question and safeguard its own secret inner life, suggesting reflection on the significance of being. Focussing on the nature of faith, it seeks to affirm its own reality. The piece has to do with the manner in which a book can become a memory, and the way in which ashes or reliquaries and their contents are things on which one can focus attention as remnants of the past.
Porcelain form fired to 1210-1240°C (oxidising) Each form containing a single copy of the book GUACCA (33mm x 23.6 mm). Title set in Times 14 point, output to laser printer on 80gsm copy paper Laminated using Mumro Diamond Laminator, laminating sleeve 160 micron / colour clear. Ring bound with 1.55 nichrome wire. Eighteen pages, each with an image of the porcelain form, photocopied using Canon B/W copier Copy scanned by Epson scanner processed through Photoshop 3, output to laser printer on both sides of 80gsm copy paper. The porcelain form housed in an artist-made card box with paper title label. An edition of 200.
GUACCA has been widely exhibited nationally and internationally including Kerameikon, International Postmodern Ceramics Festival, Varazdin, Croatia and is held in both private and public collections including the British Art Library V&A, London and the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris.
Title: GUACCA
Artist: Joan Ainley
Date: 1995
Medium: Porcelain form fired to 1210-1240°C (oxidising) Each form containing a single copy of the book GUACCA (33mm x 23.6 mm)
Stock Number: RB05642
