ganymedesrocks:

Montreal-based artist, Laurent Craste, has a penchant for decorative objects, exploring their meaning by more or less of a ‘metamorphic’ de-constructive touch, beating up the porcelain sculptures, from their initial stylistic self.  Craste intervenes with history, morphing the staid and decorative nature of each vase or dish into a moment of comical misfortune. These accidents that are not necessarily happy ones, penetrates each piece with misfortune, which feels almost as if history ‘neo-plagiarism’.  An ‘Abuse’, in series of distorted vases, which actualizes the rage expressed in an earlier video depicting the artist in the process of digging. It also updates the strain inherent in any production requiring great skill: the portion of rejects brought to their ultimate point.  A deliberately caused “accident”, which serially, changes the appearance of the vases, with a ‘batting average’ that soils, tramples, cracks, nails to the wall, subjects to the worst treatment, yet always maintain its original style purposely recognizable. This violence is specifically that of the creator, since the absolute negation of the piece, smashing it to pieces, has not been “implemented”. 

Courtesy of Colossal and Laurent Craste Sculptures