Bouke de Vries
Netherlander Bouke de Vries trained first in design at Eindhoven and Central St Martins and worked with John Galiano, Stephen Jones and Zandra Rhodes before retraining in ceramics conservation and restoration, a skill that is integral to his recently developed artistic practice. Using reclaimed broken china, glass and pottery, often pieces that have lost a high value in their breaking, de Vries reconstructs them in fragmented or altered forms. He describes their breaking as their trauma - the most dramatic episode in the life of a ceramic object - and he explores and emphasises this point, looking to both the life and value of the broken ceramic, his own experience from Dutch 17th and 18th century still-life painting he saw growing up and to contemporary life.
Peking fuck
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Sculpture
33cm x 27cm x 18cm
Mixed media, Late 19th century chinese porcelain
Another caricatured reformulation, this time more obvious than the last. The two ducks, made from identical but differently broken figures are reorganised into very different power structures, with the comic force coming from the title and the caricatured penis providing the narrative thrust for the scene.
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