If you haven’t done so already, make sure you check out the awesome exhibition of ceramic works by Laurent Craste at Galerie sas. His elegantly fragile, majestic china urns are surreally squished and dented as axes, hammers and saws jut out of them at cruel angels. Says the artist:
“The decorative object is at the heart of my artistic pursuit. My research is centered on conceptual explorations of the multiple layers of meaning of decorative objects of collection, in their sociological and historical dimensions, but also in their ideological and aesthetics ones. … I look at the inventory of original models from the main European manufactures of porcelain of the 18th and 19th Centuries, and I use these models in a research on the status of the object of collection, in subjecting them to a practice of deconstruction and of violent alteration of their formal structures, and in contaminating their traditional decorations by a subversive process of substitution of subject.” (artist quote from gallery website)
Galerie sas
space 416
Laurent Craste
Esthétique du saccage
November 5 – December 5, 2009
www.galeriesas.com