Painted plate with Delft blue and red silk thread / Delfts blauw beschilderd bord an rode zijden draad
Painted plate with Delft blue and red silk thread
2013
19/19 cm
My story about the thread that is wrapped around the plate is related to what can be found in the center of the skein. I used to watch my mother wrap the thread around a twig, rock or nail. When the thread finished the piece at the center of the skein would be exposed. When one moves his eyes across the plate, the image under the thread becomes alive, very much like the image under the wine cylix ( the drinking bowls) of the ancient Greeks.
Mijn verhaal over de draad die om het bord is gewonden is geïnspireerd door wat men aantreft in het hart van een kluwen. I zag mijn moeder draad wikkelen om een stokje, een steen of een spijker. Als de draad werd afgewikkeld kwam dit object binnenin de kluwen weer tevoorschijn. Wanneer men de ogen beweegt ten opzichte van het bord, wordt de afbeelding onder de draad zichtbaar, zoals de afbeelding onder de wijn in de cylix (drinkschalen) van de oude Grieken.
Tree of Life / Levensboom
Tree of life
2008-2009
Embroidery on canvas
300 x 150 cm
Every month, for the duration of a year, the body of newborn Rafael was delineated on canvas in different positions and embroidered with a variant of the Bayeux stitch technique. The embroidery does not have a front or backside; it has to be seen from both sides. Both sides are in harmony.
Elke maand, gedurende een jaar, heb ik het lijfje van de pasgeboren Rafael overgetrokken op canvas. De twaalf verschillende posities heb ik geborduurd met een variant van techniek van de steek van het wandkleed van Bayeux. Het borduursel heeft geen voor- of achterkant, maar moet van beide zijden ervaren kunnen worden, als harmonie van elkaar.
Chariton
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Chariton, a childhood friend from Athens, was the son of a pottery maker. On Delfts ceramics I painted lines, as a connection between the past and the space of the present, a connection between the space of then and now.
Chariton, de vriend uit mijn kindertijd in Athene, was de zoon van een pottenbakker. Op Delfts aarwerk schildede ik lijnen, als verbinding tussen de verleden tijd en de ruimte van nu of tussen van toen en de tegenwoordige tijd.
Christina Linaris-Coridou
1948 Born in Athens, Greece
1967-1970 Academy Vakalo, Athens, Theatrical Scenery and Costume
1971-1973 Psychopolis, Free Academy, The Hague
1973-1976 Academy of Visual Arts and Design, Rotterdam, Monumental Art
During her frequent visits to Berlin in the early eighties, Christina Linaris-Coridou starts working with found objects. They form the basis for her “diaries”, in which objects found in the street or wherever are sewn on to various backings. These objects, often ceramic shards, serve as carriers of memories and words and in this way become like archaeological findings.
Since 1994 shards of old pottery found in Delft are an important source of inspiration for her work. Through her these fragments of history are revived to elements of present day life.
In 1996 she makes (together with R.J. Nottrot) an installation with the title “Emigrated Fragments” for the exposition “Dutch Light” in Evora, Portugal. A video movie in this installation illustrates the immigration of Delft shards into the town of Evora.
Many of her works one could name reconstructions. Plates, cups and bowls, but also complete dresses are constructed from old shards by means of needle and thread.
In 2000, with the aid of the town of Delft and the Koninklijke Porceleyne Fles, a series of plates in Delft blue was realized, again with old shards as a starting point.
In the work of Christina Linaris-Coridou shards and ceramics remain a recurrent theme.
Work of Christina Linaris-Coridou can be found in the collections of: Prinsenhof Museum Delft, Textielmuseum Tilburg, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag (costume department), R.B.K., S.B.K. Amsterdam and in private collections in The Netherlands and abroad.
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