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"The partnership of the couple
Katharina Bolesch and Alexander Reichardt in Naxos , the opening
of their workshop "L'
Olivier" at Halki, represents boldness and commitment
to tradition as well as to each other. Pottery in Naxos in
the context of Cycladic art has had a long history. As a
foreigner, to dare to carry on tradition that had gone
on for centuries demanded Katharina's in depth-knowledge
of ceramic art, and the inspiration and sparkle of Alexander.
Mentioning the names of the ancient
potters was rare back in history. We do though come across
the words "made" and "wrote" which
distinguish the potter from the painter. In Halki those two
arts are expressed by the couple Katharina Bolesch and Alexander
Reichardt.
Katharina throws, giving shape to the pot and carries on
to the plastic formation of symbols, branch of olive tree,
octopus and oth ers, while Alexander decorates with
a discreet scattering of fish on the surface of the vessel.
His work incorporates such varied materials as silver, marble
and wood. Their motifs are the symbols of the Greek land and
sea. In the Goulanndris Museum , the GAIA Center , their work
has found its rightful place." - Niki Goulandris |
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Mrs.
Niki Goulandris - President of the "Goulandris Natural History
Museum,"
"European Woman of the Year 1991" |
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| Athens' Olympic
Games 2004 - Academy of Athens |
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| During summer 2004, three of Katharina
Bolesch's creations were exhibited at the Academy of Athens; she was
the contemporary artist, chosen by the academy for the special exhibition
"In Praise of the Olives," supported by the General Secretariat of
the Olympic Games and the Hellenic Ministry of Culture - a measure
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| Chicago
Athenaeum Museum of Architecture & Design |
On the Island of Naxos , a treasure exists. Katharina Bolesch
- an artist of exceptional skill and devotion to her work. Her life
as art; her art as life. She uses a local Greek motif - the delicate
fruit of the ancient landscape - the olive. Her creations are on
a three-dimensional canvas made from the same earth as the olive
mixed with water and colored by pigments.
She creates vessels - sensual, fragile - drawn from the same memory
of times we recognize in history and in our past. She creates these
objects with such harmony and dignity - a matter of balancing strength
with simplicity. She extracts these forms from nature, using nature,
and incorporates the olive, the branch, the leaves in a combination
of aesthetic beauty and ten der familiarity. She captures the
sensuous mystery of nature combining the two - paint and object with
painstaking dexter ity and believable realism. The end result
is sublime - physical natural, optical, and a gentle forthright emblem
of innocence unique only as the potter's own hand, heart and soul.
- Christian K. Narkiewicz - Laine
Director / President of the Chicago Athenaeum
Museum of Architecture & Design |
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| "Olive
Wreath" - a book by Nikos Psilakis |
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Katharina's famous plate with the olive wreath has been also published
in this book which has been also distributed at the Secretariat of
the Olympic Games, given as a present to VIPs and athletes after
the games.
"In Katharina's work things regain their original purity
as if they borrow the clearness of the Aegean Sea . Clay, the material
that has accompanied man in his long and laborious course, is bathed
in the light of the Cyclades and dried in the furnace of dreams, in
order to come out as a vase or as an ornament, dec orated with
her artistic skill and inspiration.
The olive, the indelible identification of the
Mediterranean becomes the eternal and indestructible symbol again.
The olive leaves play with the light, earthly and supernatural at the
same time, imitations of the natural beauty, but also fruitful inspira tions
that lend the uniqueness of real art to the work of Katharina."
- Nikos Psilakis
Journalist - writer
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