Modern Primitive
– Something earthy and textural
ART
Go behind the scenes to meet artist Stan Bitters
THE WORK OF SCULPTOR STAN BITTERS
California sculptor Stan Bitters has been called one of the art world’s best-kept secrets by New York Times. Now he finds a new audience for his timeless ceramic murals and sculptures, which have graced fx the Palm Springs Ace Hotel with the two-story outdoor fireplaces. Original in Berlin visited the ceramic artist in his studio.
In a windowless steel building on an industrial strip of Fresno, California, the 83-year-old sculptor shapes earth, water, and fire into primal ceramic forms. It is a ritual based more on instinct than intellectual precept.
Stan Bitters’ career in ceramics has spanned six decades. His large scale works include ceramic wall murals, sculptures, fountains, and garden pathways. These installations have been featured, and can still be experienced in public spaces, banks, hotels, schools, churches, industrial complexes, and private residences. His influence has been present in the language of California architecture since the 1960’s.
Stan Bitters’ work has also been featured as a part of the prestigious California design series of exhibitions and annuals that chronicled art and design in California from 1954-1976. As a bookend in time to those exhibits, more recently, he had pieces featured as part of a group show entitled Golden State of Craft 1960-1985 at the Craft and Folk Art Museum in Los Angeles, CA. This show was part of Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945 – 1980, an unprecedented collaboration of more than 60 museums and other cultural institutions in Southern California, celebrating the birth of the L.A. art scene.
Bitters is represented in Europe by Original in Berlin. www.originalinberlin.com
Link to the full video: https://youtu.be/tTQ49fR03EE
design /delight: A PLATFORM FOR CONTEMPORARY DESIGN
During Shanghai Art Week, the city’s cultural landscape was shaped by the second edition of design /delight, an emerging platform dedicated to contemporary collectible design and functional art.
SPATIAL GESTURES
The wearable objects Yuta Ishihara makes under the moniker Shihara play tricks on us. “The hardware is in focus, incorporated into the design itself,” says Ishihara.
LAKE COME DESIGN FESTIVAL 2025
The city of Como once again hosted the seventh edition of the Lake Como Design Festival, under the theme Fragments. The festival invited visitors to reflect on fragmentation not as a sign of rupture, but as a catalyst for creative rebirth, for the preservation of memory, and for a regenerative approach to design.
Modern Primitive
– Something earthy and textural
ART
Go behind the scenes to meet artist Stan Bitters
THE WORK OF SCULPTOR STAN BITTERS
California sculptor Stan Bitters has been called one of the art world’s best-kept secrets by New York Times. Now he finds a new audience for his timeless ceramic murals and sculptures, which have graced fx the Palm Springs Ace Hotel with the two-story outdoor fireplaces. Original in Berlin visited the ceramic artist in his studio.
In a windowless steel building on an industrial strip of Fresno, California, the 83-year-old sculptor shapes earth, water, and fire into primal ceramic forms. It is a ritual based more on instinct than intellectual precept.
Stan Bitters’ career in ceramics has spanned six decades. His large scale works include ceramic wall murals, sculptures, fountains, and garden pathways. These installations have been featured, and can still be experienced in public spaces, banks, hotels, schools, churches, industrial complexes, and private residences. His influence has been present in the language of California architecture since the 1960’s.
Stan Bitters’ work has also been featured as a part of the prestigious California design series of exhibitions and annuals that chronicled art and design in California from 1954-1976. As a bookend in time to those exhibits, more recently, he had pieces featured as part of a group show entitled Golden State of Craft 1960-1985 at the Craft and Folk Art Museum in Los Angeles, CA. This show was part of Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945 – 1980, an unprecedented collaboration of more than 60 museums and other cultural institutions in Southern California, celebrating the birth of the L.A. art scene.
Bitters is represented in Europe by Original in Berlin. www.originalinberlin.com
Link to the full video: https://youtu.be/tTQ49fR03EE