Topiary Bob, by Marcel Wanders, Crocheted Sculpture, 2007, Edition #5/5

First presented at the Salone del Mobile Milan in 2007: Topiary Sid by Marcel Wanders, Personal Editions collection. Crocheted cotton fixated by epoxy resin, polyester pot, 2007, e...

First presented at the Salone del Mobile Milan in 2007: Topiary Mary by Marcel Wanders, Personal Editions collection. Crocheted cotton fixated by epoxy resin, polyester pot, 2007, ...

Crochet side table, special black version of 30x30x30cm, designed by Marcel Wanders, 2007, of which we have a few pieces available. Inspired by the earlier Lace Table (1997), the Crochet Table (2001) uses crochet material to create a more robust construction that explores the contrast between industry and handcraft. Marcel Wanders employed the same material for a number of different designs: the Crochet Chair (2006), the Crochet Light...

One-minute-sculpture. The name says it all! The one-minute-sculpture is made of clay, coated with a gold luster. From inspiration during playtime with Marcel’s daughter, Joy, c...

One-minute-sculpture the name says it all! The one-minute-sculpture is made of clay, coated with a gold luster. From inspiration during playtime with Marcel’s daughter, Joy, co...

One-Minute-Sculpture... the name says it all! The one-minute-sculpture is made of clay, coated with a gold luster. From inspiration during playtime with Marcel’s daughter, Joy, ...

Most unique table lamp by Marcel Wandres. Gilt-glazed ceramic, stainless steel, linen, Netherlands, 2016. In this limited series, the artist challenged himself to create a sculpture in no less than one...

A beautiful seashell and urn sculpture piece decorative object, circa early-20th century. Piece/sculpture 'topiary' has a metal urn base with bird handle...

Heron is an orginal contemporary sculpture realized by the artist Bob Paulson in 2020. Hand-beaten metal sculpture depicting an heron. Don't miss a ...

Heron is an orginal contemporary sculpture realized by the artist Bob Paulson in 2020. Hand-beaten metal sculpture depicting an heron. Excellent con...

A porcelain sculpture by Wayne Fischer. Perfect original conditions. Signed. Unique piece. 2007. How can an inert object produce deeply unsuspecting, indecipherable, uncontrollable emotions? Wayne Fischer is an artist who can create works that force one to ask such moving questions as this. If he doesn’t know why, if he can’t explain the deepest reasons of his artistic research, he definitely knows the workings and limitations of the artistic process he invented. He has never deviated from the course he set for himself since university; translate life. The works presented here show the evolution of his creations over the past thirty years. If Wayne Fischer has received several international prizes and quickly obtained the recognition of his peers in ceramics, nevertheless he retains a singular position at once unavoidable and disturbing. His sculptures are paradoxical, powerful and sensual, and cause a certain unease. They are beautiful, carnal, touchable, all the while being outside the standard idea of beauty. The ambiguity of attraction and rejection is at the heart of this evolution. The pieces from the 1980s and 90s are imposing by their size, stature and symmetry, which give them balance. They generate surprise, curiosity and play between contrasts that are both soft and aggressive. They reference the body, muscles, and torso, without presenting an exact reality. They are double-faced, seductive, and enigmatic. Wayne’s shapes are inspired by shells, bivalves, sometimes presented as though they are floating in space. But the reference of the marine world to the mysterious female body has only one interpretation and only history and emotion condition the reaction of the spectator: he accepts or refuses to see, to be seduced. He is touched or he flees. The more recent sculptures are appreciated in the fullness of their round volume and the search for a pure universal beauty. “Metamorphosis,” the work recently awarded by the Bettencourt Foundation, is from this series of pieces wheel- thrown and deformed which pushes the porcelain from the inside so the bulges evoke the movement of waves or the musculature of several bodies. The exactness, the clean breaks, the assurance of lines and valleys are testimony to the interior power that governs the creation. The life energy expressed is also felt by the artist as the origin of ceramics. All the pieces are curved and tense. They show no marking, no sign of the hand, no imprints, and yet give an impression of spontaneity, as if a dropped piece of clay found its form by chance. Depending on the angles, the content becomes “the origins of the world”. Femininity and sensuality are exalted. Inspired by the body, before and after birth, or simply the sea, the parts of the sculpture conjugate around a mysterious interior cavity, secret and troubling. The interior wall doesn’t correspond to the exterior, and has its own volumes, deformities, and intimacy. The pieces present two kinds of interior: one open, and partially uncovered, the other totally hidden inside. The differences of their respective deformation reinforce the impression of life : the subjective representation of muscles and bones, of bulges pushed by an interior force, like a visceral movement of respiration. The surface of the ceramic is crackled but soft and fine, even reflecting light like the skin. The nuances of color reinforce the expression of sensuality. The alignment of technique and what it causes one to see and feel has rarely been so intimately successful. Wayne Fischer perfected his technique in the 1970s and has remained faithful to it. He adds fibers to porcelain clay that has been chosen for its whiteness to create and accentuate volume around empty space, by assembling slabs or thrown pieces. Then, he makes another piece that takes its place inside; both parts are formed with no hand...

Rare and important French Art Deco ceramic sculpture by Marcel Renard (1893-1974), circa 1920s of a woman modeled in robes with a baby. Made of earthenware with a soft crackled glaze...