ceramic sculpture, burnished sealed earth, raku nude, h 32x28x10 cm; embossed signature
Israeli ceramist Simcha Even-Chen uses ceramics to investigate the relationship between dimensional space and two-dimensional geometric surfaces and is interested in undefined, organic and free forms. The artist's works, although characterised by a complex geometric grid - the reference is to the graph paper used in science - seem to be suspended in the air, almost without mass. The black colour, obtained by the process of the Naked Raku technique, gives the illusion of gravitational grip, referring to a continuous play of balances and tensions.
