Yukio Shakunaga

Japanese Ceramic: Bean-shape Plate: Hungry Ghost (No. 5) by SHAKUNAGA Yukio

2013

Kristalova is best known for her figurative ceramic sculptures that incorporate aspects of the human body and elements of nature. Across her oeuvre, she explores transition as a stag...

Kristalova is best known for her figurative ceramic sculptures that incorporate aspects of the human body and elements of nature. Across her oeuvre, she explores transition as a stag...

Kristalova is best known for her figurative ceramic sculptures that incorporate aspects of the human body and elements of nature. Across her oeuvre, she explores transition as a stag...

I love this extraordinary American surrealist piece - a collage/montage, an assembly of objects in a velvet-clad box/frame - for a number of reasons reasons. I love the fact that it depicts pipes, among the most iconic images of the surrealist movement, rooted in Magritte’s famous 1929 painting which depicts a pipe accompanied by the caption “Ceci n'est pas une pipe” (This is not a pipe). Marcel Duchamp loved using pipes...

Steve Cartwright, Hip Vessel Handmade Sculptural Ceramic, Stoneware Clay, fired to 1250c 41 x 28 cm (16.1 x 11.2 in) Edition of 5 per year

Porcelain Open edition Unsigned and unnumbered; stamped on underside of each plate Excellent. Scratch on box (approx. 4cm long). Small amount of residue on sheet under each plate Sol...