“This season, you’ve got to hunt down a dark unicorn, then have a cup of tea, hiding yourself between green, green mountains, observing shady rainbows at the horizon.”
Black Land is my personal landscape, which actually doesn’t belong to me at all. It is my inner area, with its own rules, with undefined, endless borders and content. Currently a dark landscape, consisting of many colorful spots, ready to be discovered. This mysterious, unexplored rural place is determined by reality, dreams and desires.
In recent years my ceramic artwork has focused mostly on the application of contemporary industrial technologies such as CNC milling, 3D software modeling and 3D printing, used on both my design and free art works. A series of objects, some functional and some non-functional, altogether named Black Land is the outcome of my artist residency at Da Wang Culture Highland in Shenzhen, during which I had a “comeback” to traditional and basic ceramic techniques. After years of voluntary distance from this direct relationship with ceramic materials, I had a huge inner desire to return to the roots, and once again experience the simple joy of touching clay. And this experience becomes surprisingly liberating.
Mixed ceramic techniques, different sizes, 2014
This project was supported by The Ministry of Culture of The Slovak Republic
Small collection for tea ceremony: tea bowl, saucer, incense holders.
Materials: hand builded porcelain, stoneware glaze, underglaze drawing, gold
Objects are part of Black Land Collection
2014
In courtesy of Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague
