We had the pleasure designing the catalogue, posters, exhibition graphics etc for the exhibition “Carl-Henning Pedersen – Lerets Billedmager“ (in English “Images in Clay“). The exhibition is on show at ‘Clay – Museum of Ceramic Art Denmark’ until end of December 2020, and will thereafter travel to ‘Carl-Henning Pedersen & Else Alfelt’s Museum’ in Herning, Denmark – opening January 15th 2021.

Info from the museum’s website: “The renowned Cobra-artist Carl-Henning Pedersen (1913-2007) is the grand master of imaginative painting and holds a key position within the spontaneous-abstract avant-garde of the 20th century. Unknown to most people, he also expressed himself in clay.

This is the first time an exhibition focuses on his ceramic works. The whole colour scale is represented. From his monumental decorations in Herning 1966-68 to his collaboration with the Royal Copenhagen Porcelain Manufactory during the 1990s. Here, he created a long series of ceramic works in porcelain and in earthenware, as well as a series of small, spontaneous figures with his fingers in the clay.”

Go see the wonderful exhibition – and of course buy the catalogue…

I en anmeldelse i Herning Folkeblad, står der “den nye bog »Carl-Henning Pedersen – Lerets billedmager«, der er udgivet i et samarbejde mellem Carl-Henning Pedersen & Else Alfelts Museum og Clay – Keramikmuseum Danmark.

Bogen fungerer som katalog til begge udstillingssteder, men kan i kraft af indholdet også læses som et selvstændigt værk om kunstnerens keramiske virke, der i modsætning til hans malerier og akvareller påstås underbelyst formidlingsmæssigt.

… en lækker udgivelse – med grafisk design af Helle Marietta og Jørgen Smidstrup, som Carl-Henning Pedersen & Else Alfelts Museum tidligere har samarbejdet med – der i kraft af faglige artikler, historiske tråde til kunstnerens arbejde med leret og dugfriske fotos lægger på i forhold til fortællingen om Hernings æresborger.”