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| Giorgio Morandi. Still Life of Vases on a Table. Etching. 1931. |
Giorgio Morandi, painter of vessels. Of vases. Of stillness and silence; the settling of dust. Or, as Alistair Sooke puts it, painter of “the dialogue between mute objects, animated by the space between them.”
(See http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-reviews/9805870/Giorgio-Morandi-Lines-of-Poetry-Estorick-Collection-review.html.)
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| Greg Payce. Ebony. Ceramic. |
Greg Payce, sculptor of vessels. Vase is hardly the word for them, though they echo the form. They are almost columns: inverse caryatids. Compelling because of the humanness of both scale and form. Face them or turn sideways, slip between them. Fit into the spaces they have animated; the spaces between.
These objects are anything but mute.
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| Greg Payce and his Al Barelli. Ceramic. 2001. |
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| Greg Payce. Pantheon. Ceramic. 2004. |
