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For one more week in O.D. Gallery in Amsterdam you can see an exhibition of my ceramic street art.

Ceramic street art is the heart of my creation, clay is my primary material. It was ceramic objects with lace motifs that were the first works I placed on the street in 2009. Over the last 13 years, I left several hundred of such laborious pieces on the streets of nearly 100 cities around the globe.

All over the world one of the most popular ways to decorate ceramic dishes is by pushing the lace onto fresh clay. This is how the pattern is created. One day I realized that these motifs are intriguing on their own, they don’t need an excuse such as a plate or a mug to exist. I started to make such no-purpose lacy objects and glue them on walls.

Each ceramic lace is made in two copies: one is left somewhere on the street, and the other becomes the center of the fragile art object. The title of each work is the name of the city in which the second copy of the lace was left.

O.D. Gallery
, Singel 395, Amsterdam

Tuesday to Sunday, 12.00-18.00

Closing November 13.

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Bayreuth, Germany, 2020

Bayreuth, Germany, 2020

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harpling
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Did you paint the edges so that the ceramic looks older? Or does the rust colour come from the metal frame?

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Bayreuth

Bayreuth

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Calais, France, 2019

Calais, France, 2019

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Covilha, Spain, 2015

Covilha, Spain, 2015

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Covilha

Covilha

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harpling
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Did you make the background design by stenciling over lace as well?

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Stone Town, Tanzania, 2021

Stone Town, Tanzania, 2021

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Stone Town

Stone Town

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harpling
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Weirdly, I think I like this one better as a museum piece than in the street.

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Mumbai, India, 2012

Mumbai, India, 2012

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Those kids look like they're contemplating the meaning of life as represented by ceramic lace.

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Koh Rong, Kambodja, 2019

Koh Rong, Kambodja, 2019

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Auckland, New Zealand, 2016

Auckland, New Zealand, 2016

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Did you put the ceramic in the knothole and then lay on the lace? Or carve the lace onto the ceramic and then fit it into the knothole? I really like the tree bark with the lace; I wish I could upvote this one more than once!

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Warsaw, Poland, 2099

Warsaw, Poland, 2099

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Berlin, Germany, 2010

Berlin, Germany, 2010

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Lisbon, Portugal, 2017

Lisbon, Portugal, 2017

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Koh Rong, Cambodja, 2019

Koh Rong, Cambodja, 2019

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Warsaw, Poland, 2011

Warsaw, Poland, 2011

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Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2018

Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2018

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Calais

Calais

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The shadows make it look like the folds/ contours of the museum piece are different to the outdoor piece in Calais. Is that just a trick of the light?