About Barbara
Curriculum Vitae
Barbara Nanning
WG-Plein 21
1054 RA Amsterdam
The Netherlands
T: +31 (0) 6 512 312 83
E: barbara.nanning@aie.nl
Barbara’s Studio and Showroom is open for Visitors by Appointment.
Please feel free to contact her at e-mail or telephone.
You are also welcome at:
J. Lohmann, New York (USA)
www.jlohmanngallery.com
Taste Contemporary, Geneva (Switzerland)
www.tastecontemporary.com
david gill gallery (England)
https://www.davidgillgallery.
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For over forty years, Barbara Nanning has been an internationally renowned artist with works in numerous public and private collections around the world. Describing herself as a ‘three dimensional designer’, the Dutch artist quickly gained global recognition for her unique vessels and sculptures.
After graduating from the renowned Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam (The Netherlands), Nanning started out her career as a ceramicist. She introduced to the medium vivid colours that had only previously been possible in painting and gave an unexpected, almost unreal dimension to her work. Nevertheless, Nanning soon took the surprising step of adding glass to her repertoire — the material on which she would eventually focus exclusively. Experimenting with pate de verre, glass blowing, and metal gilding, she fuses different worlds into an entirely personal visual language.
Nature, both organic and inorganic, is a constant source of inspiration for Nanning. She studies multifaceted crystals, soft jellyfishes, flowers and micro-organisms with a particular fascination with form, structure and geometry. Her constant thirst for new challenges has led Nanning to Nový-Bor in the Czech Republic. There she enjoys the support of the most talented glassblowers and polishers, but above all the possibility of employing colour in a totally new way. In Nový-Bor, Nanning glassblows her forms, which are then sawn up, ground, polished and sandblasted.
Barbara Nanning combines tradition with innovation, Eastern opulence with Dutch austereness, freedom with structure and reason with emotion. Her work is a fusion of classical artisan methods and innovative materials. As a result, her language does not comply with an existing one, but forms a universe all of its own.[/su_spoiler] [/su_accordion]
Books
Barbara Nanning – Eternal Movement Ceramics, Installations and Glass Art
Author: Titus Eliëns
Publisher: Waanders & de Kunst, Zwolle
144 pages
7,87 x 9,84 inch
Full colour
€ 25
ISBN 978 94 6262 256 2
You can see a good view of my book on the Waanders & de Kunst website. It shows 25 pages including many images of my work. Here's the link:
https://www.waandersdekunst.
This retrospective artist monography highlights the outstanding qualities of her work as it has evolved over the last forty years.
Thanks to the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds / Elisabeth Vermaat Müller Fonds.
Barbara Nanning, Galaxy & Terra, Ceramics - Reizen in tijd en ruimte
Authors: Liesbeth Crommelin, Paul Donker-Duyvis
ISBN 90-6617-106-5
full colour images, 36 pages
Amsterdam 1993
barbara nanning_evolution
Author: Thimo te Duits, Barbara Nanning
ISBN 90-9017369-2
ca. 100 full colour images, 164 pages.
Price: Euro 49,—
Evolution, Amsterdam 2003
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