Bouke de Vries: Memories in Porcelain at Legion of Honor: Legion of Honor, San Francisco
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Bouke De Vries: Memories In Porcelain at Legion of Honor
22 July, 2023–24 March, 2024
Legion of Honor
Lincoln Park, 100 34th Avenue (at Clement Street),
San Francisco, CA. 94121Bouke de Vries creates imaginative ceramic sculptures that capture what he describes as the 'beauty of destruction'.Repurposing shattered ceramic wares, the London-based Dutch artist challenges notions of perfection and worth by finding new potential in that which is broken. The exhibition features eight new commissions. These include two of his distinctive “memory vessels,” in which the original shapes of broken ceramic wares are re-created in glass to house the shards. One incorporates English Worcester porcelain, a reference to the extensive collection of Worcester in the Bowles Porcelain Gallery. The exhibition also includes three “exploding still lifes,” in which ceramic fragments appear to float in the moment of shattering, as well as a work inspired by the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.
This exhibition is the second in a series of contemporary ceramic installations in the Bowles Porcelain Gallery.
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