Ceramic Spray Cans – Carrie Reichardt

Carrie Reichardt2007/2009

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Beginning in 2006 the British artist created a variety of unique ceramic spray cans. Ten of these spraycans are now part of The Widewalls Collection. They are ceramic slips with silver luster and on-glaze,layered, printed transfers. Carrie Reichardt chose the spray can because it is a contemporary, iconicsymbol of resistance that resonates with a growing audience for urban and street art. She wanted toexpose them to certain ideas, to a particular kind of political content. Graffiti, writing on walls is a potent,expressive form. Carrie experimented with different shapes and forms of spray cans. Using a range oftraditional and experimental techniques Carrie Reichardt could introduce the kind of images and texts tothe clay surface, that she would have referenced if she had the ability to use a real aerosol can artfully.Capital punishment and colonialism are dominant themes. These ideas are juxtaposed, composited andbonded by the process, into the surface of the objects. Every spray can is an original work of art. CarrieReichardt occasionally created small, thematically linked sets of up to ten cans. However within a seteach item is one of a kind. She worked in small batches, the success of which is never guaranteed. Ineach batch the artist may lose one or all of the pieces. It takes two to three weeks to create each batch.Carrie Reichardt explains the story of every can …

作品介绍

• 标题: Ceramic Spray Cans
• 创作者: Carrie Reichardt
• 日期: 2007/2009
• 位置: Ermatingen
• 创作地点: Ermatingen
• 实际尺寸: Height (each): 17,5 cm、 Lenght (each): 6,5 cm
• 外部链接: Widewalls
• 材质: Ceramic

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Widewalls