2019, Porcelain ‘sang de boeuf’, 1 shape L 48 cm
2019, Installation / porcelain pots and unfired porcelain, 4 m3
2004-07, Porcelain, one bone up to 120 cm, total 3m3
2012, Installation with porcelain, foam and unfired clay, W 680cm - H 460cm - D 420cm
2017, Stoneware-metal-plastic / Detail installation, size depends on space available
2015, Porcelain, W 138cm - H 36cm
2019, Installation in progress / Stoneware, L 200cm - H 120cm - D 120cm
2006, Installation with unfired clay, potterswheel, wallpaper and poster. The mountain starts to turn when someone enters. Size depends on space available
2014, Installation, W 220cm - H 160cm - D 200cm
2019, Mountain: stoneware / Ellips: stoneware, H 90cm - W 120cm
Artist Statement
The master says:
“Elusive! Vague! Pictures in the middle! Vague!
Elusive! At the core are things!”
Dao De Jing, ch25
How do we create art?
My own creative processes lead repeatedly to existential questions. Currently I am exploring such themes as chaos and order, form and emptiness, matter and energy. A prequel to verbal answers lies partly within the Western philosophy of science but often more clearly for me in Eastern thought.
Nature, material which is constantly shifting, is central to Chinese philosophy and so matter is a recurring theme - as revealed in my works pertaining to “mountains” and to “scholar rocks”. The notion of the mountain is associated in the Western mind with the physical, with gravity. In the Oriental approach on the other hand, the mountain expands man’s spirituality and underlines his impotence.
My investigation of matter leads inevitably to the study of chaos vs order while the actual process of creation demands a return to chaos.
This in turn allows the erotic to emerge.
-- Marieke Pauwels
Bio
Marieke Pauwels is Master of Visual Arts and currently MAD-faculty Head of Department of Ceramics. She recently commenced research at MAD-faculty & UHasselt.
Since 1989 Pauwels has exhibited at home and abroad, testing the conventions of her medium with performance art and winning a number of coveted international awards. A welcome guest speaker on the role and the future of Ceramics in Contemporary Art, she has lectured in Austria, China, Germany, Japan, the Netherlands and the UK. Residencies in Japan, the Netherlands and China continue to inspire her work. Pauwels has worked for nearly three decades as a teacher in Art Education. A number of articles on her work have been published.