{"id":360455,"date":"2021-11-15T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-15T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/?p=360455"},"modified":"2021-12-15T02:29:19","modified_gmt":"2021-12-15T07:29:19","slug":"roberto-lugo-teapot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/roberto-lugo-teapot\/","title":{"rendered":"This Vivacious Teapot Has Agnes Martin on One Side and Jean-Michel Basquiat on the Other"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"726\" height=\"726\" data-id=\"360746\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Roberto-Lugo-Basquiat-teapot.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-360746\" 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href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/creators\/roberto-lugo\/\">Roberto Lugo<\/a> dismantles tradition with his use of clay, creating ornate tea sets, platters and funerary urns that combine his exuberant <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/art\/style\/street-art\/\">street-art<\/a> style with deep messages about social mobility, racial equality and the dethroning of the cultural elite.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lugo flips the formalities historically associated with tea drinking in the West, once the preserve of the white upper class, by heightening the more positive aspects of the ritual centered around sharing and conversation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/furniture\/dining-entertaining\/ceramics\/agnes-martin-jean-michel-basquiat-teapot-glazed-ceramic-roberto-lugo\/id-f_24262562\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"950\" height=\"634\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/RRoberto-Lugo-Basquiat-teapot-detail-950x634.jpeg\" alt=\"Agnes Martin\/Jean-Michel Basquiat Teapot, 2021 (detail), by Roberto Lugo\" class=\"wp-image-360750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/RRoberto-Lugo-Basquiat-teapot-detail-950x634.jpeg 950w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/RRoberto-Lugo-Basquiat-teapot-detail-525x350.jpeg 525w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/RRoberto-Lugo-Basquiat-teapot-detail-120x80.jpeg 120w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/RRoberto-Lugo-Basquiat-teapot-detail-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/RRoberto-Lugo-Basquiat-teapot-detail.jpeg 1318w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 950px) 100vw, 950px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhen I first started taking ceramic classes, all the students were making 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Everyone from Martin Luther King Jr. and James Baldwin to Joan Mitchell and Jimmy Hendrix feature on his highly charged glazed treasures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This double-sided vessel, called the <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/furniture\/dining-entertaining\/ceramics\/agnes-martin-jean-michel-basquiat-teapot-glazed-ceramic-roberto-lugo\/id-f_24262562\/\">Agnes Martin\/Jean-Michel Basquiat Teapot<\/a><\/em> (2021) and available through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/dealers\/wexler-gallery\/\">Wexler Gallery<\/a>, is an exuberant tribute to two of his heroes: the American Expressionist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/creators\/agnes-martin\/art\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Agnes Martin<\/a>, known for her grid-like paintings, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/creators\/jean-michel-basquiat-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Jean-Michel Basquiat<\/a>, who like Lugo, transitioned from unknown graffiti tagger to fine artist, using his defiant and lively art-making method as a means of engagement and activism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/creators\/roberto-lugo\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"857\" height=\"705\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Roberto-Lugo-Agnes-Martin-teapot-dragon-detail.jpeg\" alt=\"Agnes Martin\/Jean-Michel Basquiat Teapot, 2021 (detail), by Roberto Lugo\" class=\"wp-image-360751\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Roberto-Lugo-Agnes-Martin-teapot-dragon-detail.jpeg 857w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Roberto-Lugo-Agnes-Martin-teapot-dragon-detail-425x350.jpeg 425w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Roberto-Lugo-Agnes-Martin-teapot-dragon-detail-120x99.jpeg 120w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Roberto-Lugo-Agnes-Martin-teapot-dragon-detail-768x632.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 857px) 100vw, 857px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t just think about ceramic objects for their specific function but in terms of the connotations they have within culture and society,\u201d Lugo explains. &#8220;I try to add to that conversation by complicating it, by including figures and ideas that haven&#8217;t historically been included in that conversation.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Finely rendered black-and-white portraits of Basquiat and Martin appear on opposite sides of the vessel, surrounded by colorful abstract patterns, many of which form the scales of a cartoonish dragon. 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