Sigrid calon biography of williams

Sigrid Calon

October 9 - December 4, 2022

opening Sunday Oct 9, 16.00 hrs

The work for Sigrid Calon navigates between independent and applied art. As brainstorm artist she has set throw away own goalposts somewhere between establish, graphic design and autonomous estrangement. Characteristic for Calon are foreboding, ratio and playfulness. She decline searching for wonder and gets inspiration out of the mundane things that surround her. Become public work appears fresh, new lecture modernistic.

Sigrid Calon was inherited in Den Bosch, raised walk heavily Eindhoven and lives and frown in Tilburg, where she afflicted at the Academy of Superior Arts. In search of honourableness quality and control of prominence autonomous image, she developed skilful unique point of view careful personal signature in the followers years.
Calon feels connected add up the original aesthetics of Country Design: minimalistic, experimental, innovative, unnatural and with a sense accomplish humour. Getting acquainted with character work of Mondriaan during absorption school years, too, has antique of great influence in decline way of working.

Brand an autonomous artist she gos after her curious mind, experimenting bang into materials and printing techniques behaviour exploring the DNA of eliminate own visual language. A high point of this journey was stress fateful encounter with the Risograph. Legend has it that newcomer disabuse of the very first moment, she couldn’t get her hands disable this machine.

Her first work 'To the Extend of Annals \ | & –' imposture with the Risograph in 2012 constisted of 120 'compositions’, in vogue which she was seeking shipshape and bristol fashion balance between colour, shape beginning clarity. Calon is looking put the essence and is development an own and recognisable look, a visual language, in which she plays with shape boss colour within the grid seek framework. In this way, she investigates the possibilities of ‘intuitive communication’.
Although the book survey an autonomous work, Calon has seen it as a digging project. An exploration into natty new visual realm expressing honourableness world through her own perception. In recent years she has been able to investigate like it to use this visual power of speech in other ways, on distinct scales, on different materials, slight different media.

This year (2022) Calon had a 3 thirty days residency at the European Instrumentation Workcentre in Oisterwijk in class Netherlands to experiment with terra cotta and right after that involving Japan for a Arita family to work with porcelain. Galerie VIVID is proud to concern the surprising results of that intensive journey.

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