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Wendy Gers Fabrizio Meris

Bouke de Vries

Unbroken

Wendy Gers,  Fabrizio Meris,  Femke Diercks ,  Angela Black

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Miscellaneous
01 November 2025
Ceramic arts, pottery, glass; Individual artists, art monographs
A compelling overview of Bouke de Vries' transformative ceramic art, exploring beauty, imperfection, and the poetic power of brokenness and repair.

Bouke de Vries, based in London, gets the viewer thinking with his extraordinary artworks of broken porcelain and discarded shards. He creates extraordinary works of art from broken porcelain and pottery and discarded shards. With these he makes the viewer think about what beauty and perfection are. This combination of craftsmanship and creativity makes his art both visually impressive and conceptually stimulating. De Vries' museum work is included in many leading international collections and he is represented by leading international galleries. This book presents an overview of the highlights of his career, in which he plays with the theme of decay and recovery. In his still lifes, relics and large installations, Bouke de Vries respects the history of objects, but adds humour and depth. The observant viewer experiences how the life of an object through the ages changes its owner, context and meaning. Several international art critics wrote a contribution for this book.

Text in English and Dutch.

AUTHORS: Wendy Gers, Curator, Modern and Contemporary Ceramics, National Ceramics Museum Princessehof, Leeuwarden; Fabrizio Meris, Art and Fashion Writer; Femke Diercks, Curator, European Ceramics and Glass, Head of the Decorative Arts Department, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam; Angela Black, former director of the Design Museum Den Bosch.

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Offers a comprehensive overview of Bouke de Vries' internationally acclaimed ceramic and installation art .

Features contributions from leading international art critics and curators .

Highlights the artist's unique philosophy on beauty, imperfection, and the lifecycle of objects .

Includes high-quality images of major works, still lifes, and large-scale installations .

Appeals to collectors, curators, ceramic enthusiasts, and fans of conceptual contemporary art .

De Vries' work is held in major museum collections and exhibited worldwide

100 colour illustrations
Contributions by:   , , ,
Imprint:   Miscellaneous
Dimensions:   Height: 300mm,  Width: 240mm, 
Weight:   1.800kg
ISBN:   9789462626287
ISBN 10:   9462626286
Pages:   176
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Unspecified
Annemarie Lavèn Voorwoord 4 Preface 5 Wendy Gers Muzen, maden en alles heeft een barst 6 Muses, maggots and a crack in everything 10 Alice Black Imperfectie als nieuwe mogelijkheid 14 Imperfection as opportunity 18 Femke Diercks De scherf weet wat hij wil worden 24 The shard knows what it wants to become 30 Simon Martin Bow teapot 43 Bow teapot 44 Denise Campbell & Laura Smeets Peacock 2 53 Peacock 2 54 Ina Sarikhani Weston Rice Bowls 81 Rice Bowls 82 Matthew Winterbottom & Xa Sturgis War and Pieces 101 War and Pieces 102 Adrian Sassoon Memory Vessels 111 Memory Vessels 112 Ron Mandos Vermeer Reliquaries 131 Vermeer Reliquaries 132 Lisa Veenstra Tafel stuk 145 Tafel stuk 146 Bruce Boucher A Rake’s Progress 151 A Rake’s Progress 152 Fabrizio Meris Biografie 158 Biography 164 Schrijvers Writers 173 Colofon en beeldverantwoording Colophon and Image Credits 178 Partners en fondsen Partners and Support 179

Contributors include: Wendy Gers, Curator, Modern and Contemporary Ceramics, National Ceramics Museum Princessehof, Leeuwarden; Fabrizio Meris, Art and Fashion Writer; Femke Diercks, Curator, European Ceramics and Glass, Head of the Decorative Arts Department, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam; Angela Black, former director of the Design Museum Den Bosch.

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