NEW BLUE AND WHITE, 2013

Quand On Aime Tout est Plaisir: After Fragonard, USA, 2013

Inspired by the eighteenth-century paintings by Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Quand On Aime Tout est Plaisir was presented as part of the 2013 “New Blue and White” exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. The exhibition’s curator, Emily Zilber, writes: “The widespread dissemination of blue and white was reliant on the ability to print on clay. Hatch takes this one step further, treating ceramic plates as surfaces on which to translate images of swinging lovers from the eighteenth-century paintings of Fragonard— which themselves would have been spread through prints. Hatch uses Mishima, a Japanese slip inlay technique; its blue lines create a cross-hatched image that can only be read in its entirety when viewing the whole installation. Individually, each plate provides a second frame for Hatch’s drawing. This allows for both figural and abstract representation, and speaks to moments of invention inherent in the translation between the printed image and its source.“

Source: Jean-Honoré Fragonard, “Quand On Aime Tout est Plaisir“

Medium: Porcelain Plates

Dimensions:

Male 55” H x 45” W x 2” D, 139.7 H x 114.3 W x 5.08 D cm

Female 75” H x 55” W x 2” D, 190.5 H x 139.7 W x 5.08 D cm

BOSTON GLOBE REVIEW:

‘‘New Blue and White” at the Museum of Fine Arts is not your grandmother’s china cabinet. The contemporary art exhibit riffing on blue and white ceramics flouts the familiar forms and patterns of Ming vases, Dutch delftware, Blue Willow china from Britain, and more. It also honors them…Contemporary artists spinning off from the form have plenty to chew on: themes of power, globalism, commerce, and colonialism. Yet that homey familiarity clings to most of the objects here…” —Cate McQuaid, Boston Globe, 2013