Earthenware, bisque at 1000c, pit firing with ferro choloride, 250cm &250cm &250cm, 2004
Earthenware, ready white tiles, pit firing with ferro choloride, 250cm & 100cm, 2004
Earthenware, bisque at 1000c, pit firing with ferro choloride, 150cm &100cm &25cm, 2006
Ready made objects of sanitary ware, stoneware, 1250c, 200cm &80cm &25cm, 2006
Ready made objects of sanitary ware, stoneware, 1250c, gold 2nd firing 700c, 550cm &150cm &30cm, 2006
Earthenware, semi refractory clay, 1100'c, 50cm &75cm &350cm, 2003
Earthenware, semi refractory clay, red clay, 1100c, 300cm &250cm &375cm, 2005
Earthenware , bisque at 980c, white matte glaze 1050c, reduction with copper and cobalt oxide and silver nitrate 1050'c reduction at 700 c, pit firing with ferro choloride, 180cm &120 cm & 270cm, 2015
Made and exhibited in Rome Italy, Earthenware, bisgue 1000c, Matte glaze 1050c and reduction with copper oxide 700c, 2003
Colored paper clay one firing 1150c, 70cm & 25 cm & 12 cm, 2014
Artist Statement
Architectural character and the basic components of the building shape - the square, cube, circle, sphere, and cylinder are key features of the majority of my art ceramic works, which represent a dialogue between geometric construction and spontaneous expression. A hand touch in construction is spontaneous or an innate quality of the material. These gestures complement the chosen geometry, stress the value of the forms, and contrast geometric thinking.
I am concerned with form and space, searching for a new vision of the ceramic mass and its relation with external emptiness. The geometric relationship between building units and their internal spaces bleeds into the object’s surrounding space, sometimes unifying and sometimes opposing.
The building unit represents continuity, and repetitions constituting a form create varying tempos. The variation reduces the monotony of repetition and breaks the sharp monumental mass within its own space, revealing a reflexive vision of the relationship between mass and void.
-- Ossama Emam
Bio
Born in Cairo, Egypt on June 23, 1974 , Ossama Emam started a course in the ceramic department in the Faculty of Applied Arts of Helawn University, Cairo in 1993. He graduated in 1998 and now works in his own studio in Elfostat, which is an area famous in Egypt for ceramic art and crafts. To date, Emam has participated in more than 70 international ceramic events in Egypt, Italy, Greece, America, South Korea, China, Cuba, Spain, Portugal, Romania, Denmark, and Turkey. The Egyptian Academy of Arts in Rome, Italy awarded Emam The Egyptian State Prize in Art Creativity in 2004 and he has earned numerous local and international prizes throughout his career including: Jury prize at the 4th Cairo International Biennale of Ceramics; 1st Prize in Ceramics at the 14th and 18th Salon of Youth in Cairo; 2nd prize in ceramics at Ente Ceramica in Faenza, Italy; and, honorable mention at the 4th World Ceramics Biennale (CEBIKO) in Icheon, South Korea. His work is held in numerous formal collections including: The Egyptian Museum of Modern Art, Cairo; the Museum of Ceramics in Perdasdifogo, Sardinia, Italy; the Museum of Ceramics in Saint Diego, Dominican Republic; and, the Zibo Museum of Ceramics in Zibo, China. Engaged in numerous artstist activities, Emam curated the 14th international ceramic symposium in Dahab Egypt, in 2014 and was artist in residence in the ceramic department at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro.