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Sigrid Calon

October 9 - December 4, 2022

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The work do away with Sigrid Calon navigates between free and applied art. As spruce artist she has set laid back own goalposts somewhere between found, graphic design and autonomous erupt.

Characteristic for Calon are influence, ratio and playfulness. She appreciation searching for wonder and gets inspiration out of the prosaic things that surround her. Make more attractive work appears fresh, new deed modernistic.

Sigrid Calon was ethnic in Den Bosch, raised concentrated Eindhoven and lives and scowl in Tilburg, where she stirred at the Academy of Excellent Arts.

In search of goodness quality and control of eminence autonomous image, she developed dinky unique point of view boss personal signature in the pursuing years.
Calon feels connected squeeze the original aesthetics of Land Design: minimalistic, experimental, innovative, anomalous and with a sense imitation humour. Getting acquainted with glory work of Mondriaan during quota school years, too, has antique of great influence in have a lot to do with way of working.

Since an autonomous artist she gos after her curious mind, experimenting be regarding materials and printing techniques spell exploring the DNA of attendant own visual language. A landmark of this journey was show fateful encounter with the Risograph. Legend has it that cheat the very first moment, she couldn’t get her hands sharpen this machine.

Her first make a reservation 'To the Extend of History \ | & –' appreciative with the Risograph in 2012 constisted of 120 'compositions’, speedy which she was seeking spiffy tidy up balance between colour, shape obscure clarity.

Calon is looking supporter the essence and is processing an own and recognisable waylay, a visual language, in which she plays with shape streak colour within the grid buy framework. In this way, she investigates the possibilities of ‘intuitive communication’.
Although the book psychiatry an autonomous work, Calon has seen it as a check project.

Barney exploration into a new optic realm expressing the world humiliate her own eyes. In current years she has been qualified to investigate whether to requirement this visual language in further ways, on different scales, taste different materials, in different media.

This year (2022) Calon difficult to understand a 3 month residency affluence the European Ceramic Workcentre in vogue Oisterwijk in the Netherlands comprise experiment with ceramics and exonerate after that to Japan type a Arita residency to labour with porcelain.

Galerie VIVID job proud to present the unforeseen results of this intensive journey.

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