(it’s even great in winter)

MY JANUARY EXHIBITION

at the Centro D’Arte San Vidal, Campo San Zaccaria …

Brigitte Saugstad’s Art Work

“This artist, this charming signorina, is here to present her
ceramic work. These pieces are art in its purest form. She takes
nature and transforms it into art. That alone should give you an idea
of her intellectual and comprehensive capacity. But she doesn’t rest
there. She also wants to give us the feeling of joy in form – and so
these pieces were created, beautiful, sometimes white, sometimes
colorful, a little darker a little lighter. And when she concentrates on
her favorite sport, she gives us the ice skaters, where the body
weight defies gravity. As you can see, the skaters are quite robust,
but their whole being, the whole body, their physical form turns to
poetry in her hands. They simply float in the air, there is no weight,
only music and dance, only pleasure in contact with the frozen earth
or lifting up and away from it. These artists (ice skaters), when they
are in the air, appear to be flying. It looks like there is no weight
holding them down. She was able to feel this and express it in these
wonderful works of art. Look at these figures that float towards the
sky. It is truly an expression of joy, an expression of happiness, but
not only that.”

“Nature is expressed in these beautiful spheres, which are
made up of nothing but little field flowers. Look at the wonderful
forms that remind me of seashells and the waves, the song the ocean
sings. We are looking at pure art; we are in the hands of an artist.
Out of a handful of earth, out of a handful of clay, life is created,
because these figures are alive. They live in her and, as they are
here in front of us, they should also live in us now and in the future.
We should feel the joy and the lightness of heart that she has given
us today.”

Venice 16.01.2008
Georgio Pilla, Italian art critic

~ click here to download the PDF with text and photos ~

~ or here for the same in German ~

~ or here to visit the photo gallery on the evening of the Vernissage! ~