This exhibition at the Gardiner Museum in Toronto features the exquisite sculptural vessels of one of the world’s most renowned ceramic artists, Dame Magdalene Odundo.
Her first exhibition in Canada and the largest ever presentation of her work in North America, the show brings together works spanning the artist’s career. Above: Installation view, Magdalene Odundo: A Dialogue with Objects, Gardiner Museum, Toronto 2023 / Photo by Toni Hafkenscheid, courtesy Gardiner Museum.
Odundo’s work is presented with art and artifacts from many time periods and cultures, ranging from ancient Mediterranean figurines to monumental Abstract Expressionist painting, to explore the connections that unite us as humans. Watch more on this video.
Dame Magdalene Anyango Namakhiya Odundo DBE (born 1950) is a Kenyan-born British studio potter, who now lives in Farnham, Surrey.
See much more on the Gardiner Museum website, here. Exhibition runs through April, 2024.
A good feature magazine article on the exhibition and the renowned potter, here.
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[…] Magdalene Odundo: A Dialogue with Objects | October 19, 2023 – April 21, 2024 Magdalene Odundo: A Dialogue with Objects features the exquisite sculptural vessels of one of the world’s most renowned ceramic artists, Dame Magdalene Odundo. Her first exhibition in Canada and the largest ever presentation of her work in North America, the show brings together works spanning the artist’s career, including new pieces directly from her studio. Odundo’s work is presented in dialogue with art and artifacts from many time periods and cultures, ranging from ancient Mediterranean figurines to monumental Abstract Expressionist painting, to explore the connections that unite us as humans.via YT caption Ceramics: Magdalene Odundo’s Dialogue with Objects x […]
Thank you for this! I need to see this in person, so I’m thrilled it goes into April. I loved listening to her in the video, and just before I watched it, the pieces I saw here were singing. The show must be deafening.