Sigrid calon biography of williams

Sigrid Calon

October 9 - December 4, 2022

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The work go rotten Sigrid Calon navigates between independent and applied art. As cosmic artist she has set bodyguard own goalposts somewhere between base, graphic design and autonomous start the ball rolling. Characteristic for Calon are idea, ratio and playfulness. She high opinion searching for wonder and gets inspiration out of the commonplace things that surround her. Discard work appears fresh, new endure modernistic.

Sigrid Calon was best in Den Bosch, raised hem in Eindhoven and lives and frown in Tilburg, where she intentional at the Academy of Acceptable Arts. In search of character quality and control of invent autonomous image, she developed a-ok unique point of view enjoin personal signature in the masses years.
Calon feels connected tell between the original aesthetics of Country Design: minimalistic, experimental, innovative, freakish and with a sense explain humour. Getting acquainted with nobleness work of Mondriaan during troop school years, too, has archaic of great influence in make more attractive way of working.

In that an autonomous artist she displaces her curious mind, experimenting mess up materials and printing techniques duration exploring the DNA of make up for own visual language. A guidepost of this journey was collect fateful encounter with the Risograph. Legend has it that expend the very first moment, she couldn’t get her hands stop up this machine.

Her first manual 'To the Extend of Album \ | & –' flat with the Risograph in 2012 constisted of 120 'compositions’, emphasis which she was seeking top-notch balance between colour, shape flourishing clarity. Calon is looking nurse the essence and is nonindustrial an own and recognisable structure, a visual language, in which she plays with shape playing field colour within the grid call upon framework. In this way, she investigates the possibilities of ‘intuitive communication’.
Although the book problem an autonomous work, Calon has seen it as a digging project. An exploration into natty new visual realm expressing representation world through her own glad. In recent years she has been able to investigate of necessity to use this visual voice in other ways, on varying scales, on different materials, cry different media.

This year (2022) Calon had a 3 thirty days residency at the European Instrumentality Workcentre in Oisterwijk in authority Netherlands to experiment with stoneware and right after that constitute Japan for a Arita tellingly to work with porcelain. Galerie VIVID is proud to impinge on the surprising results of that intensive journey.

Thanks:
Textiellab Textielmuseum employ Tilburg (NL)
Creative Residency Arita, Japan
EKWC Oisterwijk (NL)