Saturday 13 December 2014

Lisbon Ceramics

There's a wonderful Tile Museum in Lisbon - the Museu Nacional do Azulejo. In addition to a splendid range of Portuguese ceramic tiles through history (and the modern ones are really something), there's a changing exhibition of ceramics in the broader sense. 

When we were there the show was called Art Submerged 2014 and the artist, Sylvain Bongard had made a collection of fish of various species, molluscs, crustaceans and marine plants:



















































































































 as well as old boots, keys and other stuff you might find on the sea bed:



















I was particularly taken with a set of heads which seemed to be the underwater equivalent of the Green Man :








2 comments:

Anonymous said...

The Keys are my favourite!!
Kev

harry bell said...

It's a good one!