Baked Potatoes
Jacqueline de Jong, Baked Potatoes
Jacqueline de Jong, Baked Potatoes
Jacqueline de Jong, Baked Potatoes
Jacqueline de Jong, Baked Potatoes
Jacqueline de Jong, Baked Potatoes
I visited Albisola for the first time in the summer of 1960. I went to Alba to work with Pinot Gallizio (he had just been excluded from the Situationist International and I was asked by Guy Debord to be the Dutch section of the I.S.).
After working a week, I took a bus at 4 in the morning to Albisola to meet Asger Jorn. On several occasions after this meeting AJ took me to Albisola. On one of those occasions, around 1964, A.J., the mayor of Albisola and I signed the documents to donate the garden and houses after Jorn’s death, but only if they became an art centre/museum and public garden.
46 years later I was invited to do something with Jorn’s Home. I decided to make a “Potato-Installation” to modify the fence around the pond, making it into a sort of “ceramic vegetable garden fence”.
I made 60 ceramic potatoes. I found out that real potatoes, which were like shrunken potatoes with “potato hair”, as I call their long sprouts, cannot be used in ceramic, and so I had to invent remakes. I call them Baked Potatoes.
Jacqueline de Jong
Baked Potatoes by Jacqueline de Jong was made in Albisola (Italy) in 2006 on occasion of the 3rd Biennial of Ceramics in Contemporary Art.
