Fragment
Year: 2016
Production: Limited edition
Material: Stoneware
Commission: Benyamini Contemporary Ceramics Center for the
Matter of Fact exhibition
Curators: Maya Ben-David & Jhonathan Hopp
This new collection is homage to Lapid’s popular Arabesque design. The original Lapid objects were nicely hand painted, but in a way that was only loosely related to their shapes. Various graphical patterns were painted on the same model, with little consideration of its overall form.
In this collection, the material itself is “painted” by inlaying pigmented clay into the ceramic slab. It then behaves like weaved textile. Pressed on molds, a new relationship between the shape and decoration was created. New blow-up compositions for the archaic, but loved, Arabesque.
An original Lapid’s Arabesque plate
The showroom part of the Matter of Fact exhibition
The behind the scene part of the exhibition showing experiments and processes
Segment
The “Matter of Fact” exhibition presented a utopian situation in which the Israeli Lapid ceramic factory is still in operation, asking designers to design a new collection for its brand.
This project presents found segments from original Lapid dishes. They were all found on the Jaffa seashore that used to be a dumpsite. Much like a young archaeological site from the 1960s, it holds the proof that the Lapid factory had a central role in every household.
