Carolein Smit
Subtitle: works
By: met tekstbijdragen van Harry Tupan, Reino Liefkes, Olaf Thormann, Frits Achten
Contributors: Tupan, H. R. (Harry R.); Liefkes, Reino, 1959-; Thormann, Olaf, 1962-; Achten, Frits; Victoria and Albert Museum; Grassimuseum; Provinciaal Museum van Drenthe
Publisher: WBOOKS
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Zwolle
Language: dut
Number of pages: 372
ISBN-13: 9789462582545
Subjects: Exhibitions; Dutch Ceramic sculpture
Description: A rat hung with pearls on a jewelery box, a Christ figure veiled by blood drops, a monkey with grapes in his arms. The work of ceramist Carolein Smit is both human and mysterious, natural as supernatural and often raw and confrontational. This oeuvre catalog appears at three exhibitions in London, Leipzig and the Drents Museum.  The images of Smit have common ground with the classical vanitasthem - the presence of death makes it worth living here and now. On the outside she uses a visual language that touches curiosity cabinets: scientific, religious, anatomical. They show the deviant to confirm normal, classify the peculiar to maintain the scientific order. 'People tend towards mysticism and rituals at a time when everything can be found on the internet,' says Smit. "About that emotional short-circuit, that's what my images are about. About the tension between guilt and innocence, power and powerlessness, life and death. Exhibition: Drents Museum, Assen, The Netherlands (03.11.2018- 03.03.2019) / Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK (19.03. - 30.09.2018) / Grassimuseum, Leipzig, Germany (02.06. - 30.09.2018)
Notes: "Een ruime selectie uit het oeuvre van Carolein Smit vanaf 1989 = An extensive selection from the work of Carolein Smit from 1989 onwards = Eine reiche Auswahl aus dem Oeuvre Carolein Smits ab 1989."

Catalog of the exhibitions "Myth and Mortality: the fairy-tale world of Carolein Smit", Victoria & Albert Museum, London, March 18 - September 30, 2018; "L'amour fou", Grassimuseum, Leipzig, June 2 - September 30, 2018; "Carolein Smit L'amour fou", Drents Museum, Assen, November 4, 2018 - March 3, 2019.

Includes bibliographical references.

Text in Dutch, English, and German.