Back in June last year I posted a piece about Ma Jun, a ceramicist working with models of modern day consumer goods executed in porcelain and decorated with chinoiserie motifs. (Here’s a small pic to remind you, and save you the trouble of leaving this page and coming back here to read the rest of this article):
Television, 2005 by Ma Jun
But here’s an eerie echo that has just crept above the radar:
Porcelain, 5 by Lei Xue, 2007. Trashed aluminium cans in the porcelain style.
If I can surmise correctly, he was a participant in the animation festival, Anima in 2007, with a short called “Moment by Moment”. Hard to find any footage online, unfortunately.
Porcelain at Martina Detterer
There’s a portrait of the artist as a young man at the bottom of this page (It’s a frame, really).
He and his fellow countryman, Ma Jun, must soon be running out of domestic objects to decorate in the Chinese style. May be they could apply their treatment to… who knows? Plates? Cups? Bowls?
