Anne Floche and Hans Vangsø: Parallel Paths

ANNE FLOCHE AND HANS VANGSØ P A R A L L E L P A T H S

Images courtesy of Floche and Vangsø Catalogue design by Sophia Marsh

ANNE FLOCHE AND HANS VANGSØ PARALLEL PATHS

April 2 - 30, 2022

Lucy Lacoste Gallery 25 Main Street, Concord MA lucylacoste.com | info@lucylacoste.com 978.369.0278

Lucy Lacoste Gallery is pleased to present Anne Floche and Hans Vangsø: Parallel Paths, April 2 — 30, 2022, in Concord, MA. These contemporary Danish ceramic artists are partners in life yet maintain separate studio practices. Each has shown together and separately at Lucy Lacoste Gallery multiple times, introduced years ago to the Gallery by the Danish connoisseur, William Hull. Form and color are important to both artists. Their work is harmonic together, though their sensibilities are quite different.

Anne Floche is a bold maker with subtle humor. She is a minimalist whose forms are primarily hand-built, square edged and architectural. Central to this exhibition is a series of monolithic Tall Bottles in varying sizes and hues, often with an irreverent punch line of color at the bottom. These can be grouped to form a contemporary cityscape or singularly displayed. To Floche, clay is a broad canvas and glazes, engobes and slips are her paints. This is especially demonstrated here with Floche’s flat clay Boards on which she playfully paints.

“My colors derive from terra sigillata. I very much like the dryness of the engobes and the clay, desert-like, close to the chalk look of whitewashed walls. It is a very simple way of working and it rarely causes any problems technically. It is a language I can use freely; it allows me to concentrate on what I wish to say.”

Hans Vangsø, is a master working in the Scandinavian lineage of bold simplicity, inspired by the Japanese ceramic tradition, the root and soul of ceramics. Yet he goes far beyond the classic, using unorthodox materials such as metal scraps, salt and seaweed, in repeated high temperature firings honed over the years. Thus, he creates his own vocabulary of color and texture. In this exhibition, a variation of blues and greens connect us to the Danish sky and landscape; fiery reds and blacks add excitement, with frothy whites washing over.

Gutte Eriksen, one of the great originators of Danish studio ceramics and mentor and friend of Hans Vangsø once said, “it is so lovely to see the strength in his shapes; its lovely to see how wild he has been in his firings; and it’s lovely to see something in the pots you didn’t expect at all.”

As Garth Johnson, the noted authority on Danish ceramics and curator at the Everson Museum says, “Any contemporary Danish ceramicists have the conceptual chops to be able to think themselves into the future.” And that includes Anne Floche and Hans Vangsø.

ANNE FLOCHE

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Light Turquoise Bottle Form, 2022, 22h x 4.50w in.

White Square Bottle Form, 2022, 16.50h x 4w in.

Tall Green Bottle Form, 2022, 24.50h x 6w in.

Light Bottle Form, 2022, 18h x 4.50w in.

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Tall Red Bottle Form, 2022 26h x 5.50w in.

Light Board I, II, III, 2022 15h x 16w x 1d in.

Black Board I and II, 2022 23h x 8w x 1d in.

White Cloud, 2022 20h x 12w in.

Black Cloud, 2022 25h x 18w in.

Left: Square White Bottle Form, 2022, 20h x 4.50w in.

Right: Black Bottle Form, 2022, 18h x 5w in.

Light Blue Square Bottle Form 2022, 16h x 4.50w in.

HANS VANGSØ

Light Red Square Jar, 2022 4.75h x 4.50w x 4.25d in.

Tall Red Jar, 2022 13h x 5w x 5d in.

Black and Red Jar, 2022 9.50h x 5.50w x 4d in.

Black Jar #9, 2019 14.50 h x 8w x 8d in.

Square Black Jar, 2022 8.25h x 6.50w x 6d in.

Tall Light Blue Jar, 2022 15h x 5.50x x 4.75d in.

Light Blue Jar, 2022 10h x 5.50w x 5d in.

Square Celadon Jar, 2022 5.25h x 4w x 4.25d in.

Turquoise Jar, 2022 10h x 5w x 4d in.

Black and Yellow Jar, 2022 6h x 4.50w x 4d in.

Large Round Jar, 2022 13.78h x 11w in.

ANNE FLOCHE

B. 1952

Education: The Academy of Fine Arts, Århus, Denmark Select Exhibitions: Lucy Lacoste Gallery, Parallel Paths with Hans Vangsø, Concord, 2022 Lucy Lacoste Gallery, Danish Women in Contemporary Ceramics, Concord, 2020 Lacoste Gallery, Concord, 2014 and 2016 Venice Biannale Exhibition for Architecture, 2021 Galleri Kaolin, Stockholm, 2020 Collect/Flow Gallery, London, 2019 Galleri Handwerk, `Neue Natur` Munchen, 2019 Officini Saffi, Milano, 2017 Sing Thehus, Copenhagen, 2015 Hu Gallery, Nagoya, Japan, 2015 Galleri Ann Linnemann, Copenhagen, 2009 and 2015 Nicolaj Kunst og Design, Kolding, 2014 Oxford Ceramics Gallery, England, 2014 and 2016 Modern Masters, Munchen, 2013 Galleri Profilen, Århus, 2013 and 2015 Johs. Larsen Museum, Kerteminde, 2011 Galerie Besson, London, 2000 and 2010 Sofa Chicago/ Snyderman-Works Galleries, Philadelphia, 2009 Clay, Danish Ceramic Museum, Middelfart, 2008 Sophienholm, Copenhagen, 2007 Silkeborg Bad, 2007 The Danish Institute in Damascus, 2007 Galleri Hilde Holstein, Bremen, 2006 Galleri Kaolin, Stockholm, 2006 Collect, Victoria & Albert, London, 2006, Joanna Bird Gallery, London, 2005 Galleri Pagter, Koldingm, 2005, 2014 and 2021 Carlin Gallery, Paris, 2005 Galleri Nørby, København, 2003, 2004 and 2006 Galerie Ortilles-Fourcat, Paris, 2002 Vestsjællands Keramikmuseum, Palæfløjen, Roskilde, 2001 and 2010 Sigtuna Museum, Sverige, 2001

HANS VANGSØ

B. 1950

Education: The Academy of Fine Arts, Århus, Denmark Select Solo and Two Person Exhibitions: Lucy Lacoste Gallery, Parallel Lines with Anne Floche, Concord, 2022 A Petersen Collection & Craft, with Shozo Michikawa, Copenhagen, DK, 2019 Lacoste/ Keane Gallery, Power of Simplicity with Shozo Michakawa, Concord, 2019 Lacoste Gallery, Nordic Light with Anne Floche, Concord, 2016 Galleri Ann Linnemann, Copenhagen, 2015 and 2008 Noma, Mandarin Hotel, Tokyo, Japan, 2015 Gallery Hu, Nagoya, Japan, 2015 Lacoste Gallery, Bold Simplicity, Concord, 2014 Oxford Ceramics Gallery, Oxford 2020 and 2013 Lacoste Gallery, Danish Clay with Barbro Aberg, Concord, 2012 Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh, 2012 Galerie Puls, Bruxelles, 2011 Galleri Jytte Mølle, Fredericia, DK, 2011 and 2004 Galerie Besson, London, 2009 and 2004 Galerie Puls, Bruxelles, 2007 and 2005 Kaolin, Stockholm, 2006 Carlin Gallery, Paris, 2005 Galleri Nørby, Copenhagen, 2003 Major Group Exhibitions: Teabowls, Oxford Ceramics Gallery Collect, Victoria and Albert Museum, London multiple times From the Kilns of Denmark, Berlin, Paris, England, New York City and Fitchburg 2002 -2004 SOFA Art Fair 2001 --2012 Danish Ceramic Design, curated by William Hull, Penn. State + four other locations, 1982 Works in Public Collections: Museum of Ceramics, Grimmerhus, Denmark The National Art Foundation, Denmark The National Art Foundation, Sweden Museum of Decorative Arts, Copenhagen The Carlsberg Foundation Trapholt Museum of Fine Arts, Kolding, Denmark