Sculpture Workshop with Claudia Capocci

Sculpture Workshop with Claudia Capocci

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Sat 27 Jan 2018, 2-3 pm 9 – 10 am
Lạc Tạm
No. 14 alley 5 Tu Hoa street, Tay Ho

From the organizer:

“Before you learn about sculpture, you have to do some sculpture, you have to feel the materials and realise their potential”.

A one-hour workshop developed with the intention of creating meditative relationships with material, guided by artist Claudia Capocci.

Claudia is an artist from Bristol, England, who traveled to Vietnam with her husband six years ago, and now they have decided to return and settle down in Hanoi. Claudia wants to bring more art experiences into the community where she has been helped a lot since they first came back here.

Through this workshop, participants will be given two principal experiences: Sculpting meditatively and getting lost into their surrounding.

*** Claudia’s story:

In 2011 I was working as a studio assistant at the Verocchio Arts Centre in Tuscany, run by Sculptor Nigel Konstam. Whilst I was there I met a woman who had been going there every summer for twenty years, she had received her art degree at Hornsey College of art, the predecessor of Central St. Martins, where I went to art school. So naturally we started to compare how we were taught art. After ten minutes of discussion she told me this story.

Note: I tried to contact her a few years ago about developing this idea into a workshop, but received no response. So I credit this workshop to her, in case she somehow reads it.

The story is from memory so some of the details may not be accurate.

‘It was my first day at college; we were all gathered in one of the studios, waiting for our tutor. A man walked through the door, wearing a long leather coat. He had a confidence about him. I knew I had to be in his class.

“All of you wanting to do sculpture, this way.” We all followed him like ducklings following their mother into the sculpture studios. It was dusty and dirty with tools, materials and bits of sculptures everywhere. We all sat down and awaited our instructions.

He said, “Before you learn about sculpture you have to do some sculpture, you have to feel the materials and realise their potential as you will be working with them for years. In front of you there are some blocks of plaster of paris and some tools. With your eyes closed I want you to shape the plaster into a pebble that you would find on the beach.”

I sat for what felt like a very long time, feeling the pebble emerge in my hand, the plaster becoming what I imagined it to be in my mind.’

I invite you all to practice the technique explained in this story. Its slow process develops a meditative relationship with the material. Its erosion in your hand parallel to that of the effect strong winds or the sea have on rocks, glass and anything else that might fall into it, only smaller, in the palm of your hand.

Thanks you for coming, please pick up a piece of plaster and some tools. Take your shoes off, relax, close your eyes and make a pebble.

– Claudia.

*** About Lạc Tạm space:

After being introduced how to experience this workshop, you will have the opportunity to explore the space of Lạc Tạm Antique, and choose freely where you want to process your work. The space for creativity will not be limited. In this stream of Time and Space, you can be self-indulgent and get lost in your own thoughts, as if this is a retreat of gentle meditation for the mind.

To confirm your participation, please fill out this form.

Fee: 150,000VND (This payment is for the workshop material costs). You can pay directly when arriving at the class.

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