Jacqueline de Jong at Jorn’s House

Jacqueline de Jong, Baked Potatoes. Asger Jorn House Museum, Albissola Marina. Photography: Fulvio Rosso

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

Jacqueline de Jong, Baked Potatoes. Asger Jorn House Museum, Albissola Marina. Photography: Fulvio Rosso

Jacqueline de Jong, Baked Potatoes. Asger Jorn House Museum, Albissola Marina. Photography: Fulvio Rosso

Jacqueline de Jong, Baked Potatoes. Asger Jorn House Museum, Albissola Marina. Photography: Fulvio Rosso

Jacqueline de Jong, Baked Potatoes. Asger Jorn House Museum, Albissola Marina. Photography: Fulvio Rosso

Jacqueline de Jong, Baked Potatoes. Asger Jorn House Museum, Albissola Marina. Photography: Fulvio Rosso

Jacqueline de Jong, Baked Potatoes. Asger Jorn House Museum, Albissola Marina. Photography: Fulvio Rosso

Jacqueline de Jong, Baked Potatoes. Asger Jorn House Museum, Albissola Marina. Photography: Fulvio Rosso

Jacqueline de Jong, Baked Potatoes. Asger Jorn House Museum, Albissola Marina. Photography: Fulvio Rosso

Jacqueline de Jong, Baked Potatoes. Asger Jorn House Museum, Albissola Marina. Photography: Fulvio Rosso

Jacqueline de Jong, Baked Potatoes. Asger Jorn House Museum, Albissola Marina. Photography: Fulvio Rosso

Jacqueline de Jong, Baked Potatoes. Asger Jorn House Museum, Albissola Marina. Photography: Fulvio Rosso

Baked Potatoes by Jacqueline de Jong was made in Albisola (Italy) in 2006 on occasion of the 3rd Biennial of Ceramics in Contemporary Art.

Projects

Limited Edition

I Am Wasp, by Simonetta Fadda

The paperweight of Alberto Viola

The Attese Edizioni collection
in the Ceramics Museum of Savona

The potter wasps of Albisola

The Rose Gardens
by Andrea Branzi

Michelangelo Pistoletto and the
Ceramics of the Third Paradise

Changing the world
with a vase of flowers

4^th Biennial of Ceramics
in Contemporary Art

100 chalices and 100 patens
for Pope Benedict XVI

Handmade in Albisola
La Triennale, Milano

The House of Asger Jorn
at Albisola

Private jokes and   
public pleasures   
by Roberto Ohrt   

Dr. Keramik   
by Meese & Kugel   

Baked Potatoes   
by Jacqueline de Jong   

Asger Jorn and Pinot Gallizio   
between Alba and Albisola   
by Giorgina Bertolino   
and Francesca Comisso   

The grass of Jorn’s house   
by Marco Lavagetto   

Asger Jorn   
and Ceramiche San Giorgio   

In my uncle’s house   
by Kirsten PlettKirsten Plett   

The passionate house   
of Asger Jorn at Albissola   
by Giorgina Bertolino   

Reliefs of an unbuilt city   
by Francesca Comisso   

Technological innovation
and ceramic craftsmanship

Franco Raggi and the
Global Tools Joined Shoes

3^rd Biennial of Ceramics
in Contemporary Art

The Music of Ceramics

Le Socle d'Albisola
by Corrado Levi

2^nd Biennial of Ceramics
in Contemporary Art

The local ceramics tradition
and the globalization of
contemporary art

Artist's Ceramics
Ariana Museum, Geneva

1^st Biennial of Ceramics
in Contemporary Art