Art Nouveau European Route
Exhibition: The École de Nancy at the Universal Exhibition of Eastern France, 1909
From 02.07.2009 to 03.01.2010
Nancy
www.nancy.fr
Organised by Musée de l’École de Nancy
Exhibition: Alphonse Mucha (1860-1939). Seduction, Modernity & Utopia
From 18.10.2009 to 10.01.2010
Tarragona
www.obrasocial.lacaixa.es
Organised by Caixaforum Tarragona
Exhibition: Miquel Utrillo & the Arts
From 23.10.2009 to 10.01.2010
Sitges
www.sitges.com
Organised by Edifici Miramar
Exhibition: New Light on Tiffany. Clara Driscoll & the Tiffany Girls
From 15.10.2009 to 17.01.2010
Munich
www.villastuck.de
Organised by Villa stuck
Exhibition: Edvard Munch and the Uncanny
From 16.10.2009 to 18.01.2010
Vienna
www.leopoldmuseum.org
Organised by Leopold Museum
Exhibition: Experiments In Colour: Thomas Wardle, William Morris and the Textiles of India
From 10.10.2009 to 24.01.2010
London
www.walthamforest.gov.uk
Organised by William Morris Gallery
Exhibition: Apostles of Beauty: Arts and Crafts from Britain to Chicago
From 07.11.2009 to 31.01.2010
Chicago
www.artic.edu
Organised by Art Institute of Chicago
Exhibition: Herbert Boeckl. Retrospective
From 21.10.2009 to 31.01.2010
Viena
www.belvedere.at
Organised by Lower Belvedere
Exhibition: Aristides Maillol
From 20.10.2009 to 31.01.2010
Barcelona
www.obrasocial.caixacatalunya.es
Organised by La Pedrera de Caixa Catalunya
Exhibition: Art Nouveau Revival.1900.1933.1966.1974
From 20.10.2009 to 04.02.2010
París
www.musee-orsay.fr
Organised by Musée d’Orsay
Meeting: "Chawan and Art Nouveau Ceramics" by « Chawan et céramique Art nouveau » by Virginie Courtoy, historienne de l´art
05.02.2010
Andenne
www.ceramandenne.be
Organised by Musée de la Cérmamique
The discovery of Japanese earthenware, or more specifically chawan (tea bowls), led to a renewal of ceramics in Europe at the end of the 20th century. The event represented a veritable shock for artists, because its aesthetics of "imperfection" were in contrast to European ceramics at the time. It allowed French ceramicists, and later Belgian, to free themselves from historical conventions. The artisanal and unique nature of these art objects followed the foundations of Art Nouveau and represented a way of opposing industrial art.
French artists such as E. Chaplet, J. Carriès or A. Dalpayrat blazed the trail. Their research led them to experiment with glazes and forms, following the example of Japanese master ceramicists. Their works were notably present in universal expositions at the time, in the Cercle des XX and in the exhibition room of La Libre Esthétique in Brussels.
Belgian artists such as A. W. Finch, O. Coppens and A. Craco threw themselves into ceramics under the influence of ideas from the Arts & Crafts and they discovered an example to follow in the work of French and Japanese ceramicists. Their techniques and aesthetic concepts are both personal and close to the spirit of chawan.
Exhibition: The Flower and the Green Leaf: Glasgow School of Art In the Early Twentieth Century
From 27.11.2009 to 06.02.2010
Glasgow
www.gsa.ac.uk
Organised by Mackintosh Gallery
Exhibition: Secret Images. Picasso and Japanese Erotic Prints
From 05.11.2009 to 14.02.2010
Barcelona
www.museupicasso.bcn.es
Organised by Museu Picasso
Exhibition: Views of Hamburg. The city in the painter's gaze
From 09.10.2009 to 14.02.2010
Hamburg
www.hamburger-kunsthalle.de
Organised by Hamburger Kunsthalle