Hans Vangsø and Anne Fløche February 22, 2022

Hans Vangsø and Anne Fløche
Two Person

Hans Vangsø
The work of Hans Vangsø, founded in the Japanese tradition, shows the roots and soul of ceramics. At first glance, his works show an immediate Asian influence, with a heavy emphasis on form and glaze. Upon taking a closer look, one senses the strong and deep underlying feel of the North. His work demonstrates a rich and balanced tradition of color and tone, inspired by the Nordic landscape and the natural minimalism of Danish culture. The combination of simplicity in form, richly textured glazes, multiple firing process, and the total melting of glaze and clay body render Hans Vangsø's works unique. Hans's highly textured glaze surfaces have taken years to develop, and are obtained through multiple firings in a homemade gas kiln. Each piece is surrounded with salt, seaweed, metals and oxides, wrapped in paper, and then coated in clay slip to create a saggar. These saggars are then fired to 1300 degrees C. multiple times to build surface and texture.

Anne Fløche
Anne Fløche is a clay artist currently living and working in Denmark. Fløche was formally trained at the Academy of Fine Arts in Aarhus, Denmark. She experiments with various clays, slips, and textures to create her low-fire stoneware works (fired to 1100 Degrees Celsius). A wide range of colored terra sigillata slips help distinguish and refine the textured surfaces of her works. Strongly influenced by simple architectural forms, Anne is known for her monolithic vessel forms and wall hanging pieces. Common themes in her work are repetitive geometric patterns, often based on the Circle, to represent Wholeness, Perfectness, the Centre, and the Immense Void. Fløche also draws from geology, astronomy, cloud formations, the elements, and particle physics to inspire her current body of work.