CLAUDI CASANOVAS (b.1956)
Claudi Casanovas was born in 1956. He first studied for the theatre in Barcelona, then trained as a ceramist in Olot (Catalonia). He was a member of the Coure Potters’ Cooperative from 1978 to 1987. In 1992 he won first prize at the III International Ceramics Competition in Mino, Japan. Recent major international exhibitions have included those at the Roman Museum in Nyon, Switzerland, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Oostende, Belgium and Kunstforum, Kirchberg, Switzerland. In 2004 he won a competition to create a monument against Fascism in Olot. The piece, entitled Memorial als Vençuts, was installed in June 2006. Since the monument Casanovas has been exploring the medium of print. His aquatint series “Aürt” and his large scale etchings “Arbol - Inmovilidad en el paisaje” have been exhibited in the UK and America with the gallery.
Above: Claudi Casanovas, working on his 2004 Monument against Fascism
Curriculum Vitae
Selected Solo Exhibitions
1982 |
Museu Comarcal, Olot, Catalonia, Spain – Escorces de Terra |
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Museu de Ceràmica, Barcelona Catalonia, Spain – Escorces de Terra |
1988 |
Hetjens Museum, Düsseldorf, Germany |
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Galerie Besson, London - First London Exhibition |
1989 |
Galerie Besson, London |
1991 |
Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo, Japan -Week-end in Shitara |
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Galerie Besson, London, England |
1992 |
Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Holland |
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Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo, Japan - Claudi Casanovas / Ryoji Koie |
1993 |
Galerie Besson, London, England |
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Galeria Caramany, Girona, Catalonia -Spain - Claudi Casanovas /Ryoji Koie |
1994 |
Galeria Joan Gaspar, Barcelona, Catalonia -Spain - Cercles |
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Garth Clark Gallery, New York., USA |
1996 |
Galerie Besson, London, England – Teabowls |
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Hetjens Museum, Düsseldorf, Germany - Pedra Foguera |
1997 |
Keramik Museet Gimmerhus. Denmark - Pedra Foguera |
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Musée d’ Art Contemporain, Dunkerque, France - Pedra Foguera |
1998 |
Galerie Besson, London, England – Ten Years, Ten Jars |
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Museu de Ceràmica, Barcelona, Catalonia-Spain - Pedra Foguera |
2000 |
Galerie Besson, London, England - A mini retrospective |
2001 |
Kunstforum, Kirchberg, Switzerland - Bernard Dejonge / Claudi Casanovas |
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Musée Romain, Nyon, Switzerland - Colonia Iulia Equestris |
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Galerie Besson, London, England - Twenty Blocks |
2002 |
Museum of Contemporary Art, Oostende, Belgium - Blocs |
2003 |
Museo Nacional, Valencia Spain - Blocs |
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Museu d’Art, Olot, Catalonia -Spain - Blocs |
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Galerie Besson, London, England - Pedres Blanques |
2004 |
Kunstforum, Kirchberg, Switzerland – Ermitons |
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Ajuntament d’ Olot, Catalonia, Spain - Memorial als Vençuts (Public Monument) |
2005 |
Galerie Besson, London, England - Pedres i Gravats |
2006 |
Galerie Besson, London, England - 50th Birthday Exhibition |
2008 |
Galerie Besson, London, England - Works from Japan |
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Galleri Jytte Møller, Fredericia, Denmark |
Selected Group Exhibitions
1985 |
43 Concorso Internazionale Ceramica d’Arte. Faenza, Italy - 2nd Prize |
1986 |
Biennale Internationale de Ceramique, Vallauris, France- Grand Prix |
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Fischer Fine Art, London, England - Nine Potters |
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Mueso Arte Contemporaneo, Madrid, Spain- Panorama de la ceramica Española |
1988 |
Olympic Games Art Festival, Seoul, Korea |
1989 |
Abbaye de St. Germain, Auxerre, France - L’Europe des Céramistes |
1990 |
Landesmuseum, Bremen, Germany - Hunder Beispiele Zeitgenössischer Keramik |
1991 |
Landesgewerbeamt Baden-Wurttemberg Germany - Europäisches Kunsthandwerk |
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Ceramic Cultural Park, Shigaraki, Japan - Metamorphosis of Contemporary Ceramics |
1992 |
III International Ceramics Competition, Mino, Japan - Grand Prix |
1993 |
Lappeenranta, Finland - Keramikka 93 |
1995 |
Biennale, Châteauroux, France |
1998 |
Biennale, Châteauroux, France |
1999 |
Galerie Besson, London, England - Commemorative Mugs for the Millennium |
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Museo Internazionale delle Ceramiche, Faenza, Italy- Artisti dal Mondo |
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Sainsbury’s Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich, England – Modern Pots |
2001 |
Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, USA - Poetics of Clay |
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World Ceramic Center, Ichon, Korea - World Contemporary Ceramics |
2002 |
Museo Nacional, Valencia, Spain - Dos Culturas, un Dialogo |
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Museum of Art and Desing, Helsinki, Finland - Poetics of Clay |
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The George Gardiner Museum, Toronto, Canada – Ceramic Modernism |
2003 |
The Museum of Modern Ceramic Art, Gifu, Japan - Ceramic Art from an International Perspective |
2005 |
Dulwich Picture Gallery, London – Modern Pots: Hans Coper, Lucie Rie and their contemporaries |
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Musée Ariana, Geneva. Quatre céramistes espagnols: Claudi Casanovas – |
2006 |
De Tiendschuur Tegelen, Pottenbakkers Museum, Holland - Puur Klei |
2008 |
Galerie Besson, London, England – Twenty Years, Twenty Pots |
Exhibitions at Galerie Besson
| Claudi Casanovas: Works from Japan | Oct 2008 |
| Claudi Casanovas: 50th Birthday Exhibition | Jun - Jul 2006 |
| Claudi Casanovas: Pedres i Gravats | Jun 2005 |
| Claudi Casanovas: Pedres Blanques | Oct 2003 |
| Claudi Casanovas: Twenty Blocks | Oct - Nov 2001 |
| Claudi Casanovas: A mini retrospective | Feb 2000 |
| Commemorative Mugs for the Millennium | Dec 1999 - Jan 2000 |
| Claudi Casanovas: Ten Years: Ten Jars | Mar - Apr 1998 |
| Claudi Casanovas: Teabowls | Oct - Nov 1996 |
| Claudi Casanovas | Oct - Nov 1993 |
| Claudi Casanovas | Jun - Jul 1991 |
| Claudi Casanovas | Nov - Dec 1989 |
| Claudi Casanovas: First London Exhibition | Jun - Jul 1988 |
