Spielplatz
April 12–August 3, 2008
Spielplatz translated from German literally means “Playground,” a fitting world for Stephen Paul Day and Sibylle Peretti’s lyrical ceramic sculptures recently created in the Arts Center’s Arts/Industry program. Partners in life and art, Stephen and Sibylle worked side by side in Kohler Co.’s Pottery, each using different subject matter related to children to investigate our connection with the natural world, community, and self. Stephen used slip-cast vitreous clay to create a large-scale wall piece based on Victorian toys as well as components for a surreal landscape. Sibylle produced a series of busts and full figures inspired by stories of real feral children that are sublime and vulnerable. Shown collaboratively, the works pose questions about intimacy, innocence, and knowledge.
Stephen and Sibylle live in New Orleans and Cologne, Germany. They have been awarded a Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant and the Pollack-Krasner Foundation Grant. Stephen earned an M.F.A. from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge and a Diplome Technique from Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Sibylle received an M.F.A. from the Academy for Art and Design in Cologne and trained as a glass designer at the School for Glassmaking in Zweisel, Germany.
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