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| The exhibition opening ceremony was held in this rococo era butter cream cake room. |
Our exhibition trip to Ludwigsburg castle was successful and fun. During
the four days in Ludwigsburg we walked around the beautiful garden
and set up the exhibition. The castle was possible to see only
as a part of an official guided tour and it was fascinating to hear
stories about the royals who lived in the palace and to see how the
eras changed the interior decorations. One room from the rococo era
was decorated with so much gold that it was too much to take down for
fashion – luckily and amazingly! Still, probably the most
interesting nook of the castle was the queen's theatre. Somehow and
because of the several eventful plot twists the stage machinery was
original and it has survived until this day.
The
opening ceremony was beautiful and surprisingly formal comparing to the Finnish and
the American exhibition openings I've been to: here, speeches were
given and live baroque music was played. After the opening we took a
stroll along the corridor of the Ceramics Museum and enjoyed the massive
collection of ceramic art and local Ludwisgburg porcelain. The queen of the
castle was a china painter herself and few of her grisaille plates
were exhibited too.
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| Peter Wichmann's intriguing raku artworks |
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| Heide Nonnenmacher's and Ute Beck's beautiful and detailed artworks |
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| Kenji Fuchiwaki's studio is located at the Ludwigsburgs castle right next to the historical ceramics museum. Ateljé jealousy was inevitable! |
For
the successful exhibition and the opening, I would like to thank
Kenji Fuchiwaki for welcoming us to Ludwigsburg, showing us around in the castle's ceramic museum, and
letting us to take a peek in his studio space. I would also like to
thank Heide
Nonnenmacher
and our other German colleagues for such a big amount of work! Thank you for making us Finnish artists feel like honoured guests!
Photos by Nino Hynninen.