Lot 176: Noam Dover and Michal Cederbaum b. 1975 , b. 1976 - Concrete - Wedged Mould series

Noam Dover and Michal Cederbaum b. 1975 , b. 1976
Concrete - Wedged Mould series
Mould cast and hand processed concrete
2013
Limited edition, Signed and numbered 2/6.
48.5X29X35 cm
Selected exhibition & Awards:
2013 - Designing the Middle East, 19 Greek St., London
2012 - Growing curve, Jerusalem design week, Jerusalem
2012 - Containers, design Miami, Miami, USA
2012 - Investigative games in defined space, Gallery of the department of Ceramic and Glass
design, Bezalel academy of art and design, Jerusalem
2012 - Alix de Rothschild Crafts Award winners, Benyamini contemporary design center, Tel Aviv
2012 - 3rd prize Alix de Rothschild Israeli crafts artist's award.
'Concrete' is a vase that explores the relationship between fragility and mass, between a material and its' cultural context, between the broken and the whole. 'Concrete' explores how cement functions on a small (handmade) versus a large scale (building). Qualities such as fragility and instability raise questions in regard to the relationship between the mould and the cast. The vase is designed such that its sides become thinner toward the edges. Although all the vases are cast from the same mold, each vase has its' own unique shape as the act of extracting the object from the mold inevitably breaks its thin edge. The serial nature of the cast object is thus - quite literally - fractured.