"Watch Out", earthenware plates, black stain underglaze, 90x40 Ø cm
El arte alerta (Alert art)
In his artistic work, Xavier Monsalvatje creates an iconography in which signs and symbols tell a story with a performative message.
Using everyday ceramic materials such as tiles, plates, and vases, he depicts the vertigo caused by dominant human actions that lead us to the ‘worst possible world’.
He centres his pictorial discourse on the fact of inhabiting a world, both natural and social, that is constantly out of balance. His textual, figurative, and metaphorical representations are intended to warn of the acceleration of nature’s rhythms towards catastrophe and the ignorance of politicians.
Throughout his creative work (in which priority is given to ceramics and the use of a traditional technique of cobalt blue decoration), he tries to avoid the banality and transience of messages which, ‘in their excessive media proliferation, control us and shape us as anonymous beings without critical judgement’.
15. Teo Jakob
Pl. de l’Octroi 8 1227 Carouge 022 342 23 23 www.teojakob.ch
"Watch Out" - Earthenware plates-black stain underglaze - 90 x 40 Ø cm
"Watch Out" - Earthenware plates-black stain underglaze - 90 x 40 Ø cm
"You should take your pills" - White clay with blue cobalt stain underglaze - 59 x 28 Ø cm
"You should take your pills" - White clay with blue cobalt stain underglaze - 59 x 28 Ø cm
"Marcel Duchamp still pissing" - Urinary, Majolica technique, Black stain on white glaze - 75 x 38 x 51 cm
"Marcel Duchamp still pissing" - Urinary, Majolica technique, Black stain on white glaze - 75 x 38 x 51 cm
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"The subsidized speech" - Earthenware plate, cobalt blue stain underglaze - 2.5 x 35 Ø cm
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"H20" - Stoneware plate black stain underglaze - 40 Øcm
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"El Destino cuenta poco" - White clay and slips - 64 x 24 Ø cm
"The appearance" - Earthenware plate blue cobalt stain underglaze -35 Ø cm
"The appearance" - Earthenware plate blue cobalt stain underglaze -35 Ø cm
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"Welcome 22" - Porcelain tile, third fire colors - 100 x 50 x 0,5 cm
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"Reason's Cartography" - Faience head, black stain underglaze, electrical and sound system, sensor - 30 x 30 x 13 cm
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"Class B Human" - Stoneware slab with slips - 42.5 x 29.5 x 2 cm
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"House insured" - Earthenware vase, cobalt blue stain underglaze - 68 x 33 Ø cm
