Exhibitions, Italy, Firenze, 01 January 1970
Cornelia Klein was born in Landshut/Bavaria, Germany, in 1957. She has been a ceramist-sculptor since 1985. In 1986, after three years of professional training in a ceramic laboratory in Nuernberg, Klein opened a studio in an old school building in Coburg together with the ceramist-sculptor Klaus Dorrmann. They collaborated together through 2000. From 1997 to 2000, Klein was a docent at the Akademie fuer Gestaltung und Denkmalpflege in Ebern/Nuernberg. In the summers from 1999 to 2001, she collaborated with the Centro Internazionale d’Arte Ceramica “La Meridiana” in Certaldo/Siena including course instruction. In 2001, Klein permanently transferred to Florence where she lives and works.
"My professional starting point was the world of craft born in the Bauhaus tradition. In the beginning there was the vessel, its form and material - the clay. Being engaged for years with the production of objects, with the creation of forms, their inside and outside space —in a practical and mental way—I was led to sculpture; sculpture that is connected to the language of architecture. Gradually two- and three-dimensional wall-works emerged regarding multiple subjects along with installations constructed of fragments moving in the air creating glass-like sounds.
Porcelain is my material protagonist. It embues my work with its special characteristics of color, purity, translucency and hardness. These qualities, unique to porcelain, induce a certain reductive sense: a rarefied and essential language. The content of my work focuses on contrasts: black and white, light and shadow, movement and stasis, sound and silence and, the sculptural concepts of space and emptiness. Keeping a certain tension between these contrasts while simultaneously revealing interstitial harmonies is a central theme in my work." (Cornelia Klein)
"My professional starting point was the world of craft born in the Bauhaus tradition. In the beginning there was the vessel, its form and material - the clay. Being engaged for years with the production of objects, with the creation of forms, their inside and outside space —in a practical and mental way—I was led to sculpture; sculpture that is connected to the language of architecture. Gradually two- and three-dimensional wall-works emerged regarding multiple subjects along with installations constructed of fragments moving in the air creating glass-like sounds.
Porcelain is my material protagonist. It embues my work with its special characteristics of color, purity, translucency and hardness. These qualities, unique to porcelain, induce a certain reductive sense: a rarefied and essential language. The content of my work focuses on contrasts: black and white, light and shadow, movement and stasis, sound and silence and, the sculptural concepts of space and emptiness. Keeping a certain tension between these contrasts while simultaneously revealing interstitial harmonies is a central theme in my work." (Cornelia Klein)
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