WAYNE

FISCHER

American artist who has lived and work in  southeastern France. He is fascinated with fossil and the origins of life​. He chose porcelain as his material for its incredible structural possibilities. His slab-folded and thrown ceramic art creates enormously questioning and disturbing objects. In his hands, the very fineness of porcelain itself is suggestive of pulsing life. To this he adds surfaces, skin that conceals muscle and veins, bone and viscera, either bulging or hidden beneath. Just by looking at his work online, I can't help but see a humanly elements moving underneath his sculpture's exterior. there is greater emphasis upon undulations of the surface that reveal internal structure and therefore the hidden qualities of life. The internal part that are inside is covered by a skin like porcelain. While the form is powerful, the sculpture itself is fragile. There is a contrast between the object and the force inside that trying to find a way out of its own shell.

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