About The Work
Michael Craig-Martin was invited to design the programme for the Glyndebourne 2013 season. He decided to accompany the project by creating a limited edition set of plates as part of the series. In 2016, Craig-Martin has worked with Plinth to produce a new colour-way for an unlimited edition based on this first – ‘Violin Plates (pink)’. He says:
“I wanted to do something more than just reproduce one of my images on a plate. The surface area of a plate is comparatively small so I started thinking of making an image larger than the plate, showing only a fragment. Playing with this idea, I suddenly realized that because of its length and the fact it tapers towards the top, I could accommodate the entire image of the violin on a graduated sequence of 3 plates. It was an extraordinary coincidence it fit so perfectly.
I am happy that the plates can be used to eat from in an ordinary way, displayed on a table or a wall to re-assemble the violin, placed in an orderly stack from large to small, be used singly or simply mixed up in a group."
Courtesy of Plinth
About Michael Craig-Martin
From The Magazine
- Interviews & Features: Turning Water Into... An Oak Tree: Michael Craig-Martin Discusses Performing a Miraculous Act of Conceptual Art
- Interviews & Features: Laughing at the End of the World: Painter Nigel Cooke on Finding Humor in His Dystopian Landscapes
- News & Events: Wall Power: Murals in Two Chelsea Shows, Ephemeral as Mayflies, Subvert the Sky-High Real Estate Market
Bone china, hand-decorated with ceramic
3 plates, 17cm, 21cm and 27cm in diameter
Published by Plinth
About The Work
Michael Craig-Martin was invited to design the programme for the Glyndebourne 2013 season. He decided to accompany the project by creating a limited edition set of plates as part of the series. In 2016, Craig-Martin has worked with Plinth to produce a new colour-way for an unlimited edition based on this first – ‘Violin Plates (pink)’. He says:
“I wanted to do something more than just reproduce one of my images on a plate. The surface area of a plate is comparatively small so I started thinking of making an image larger than the plate, showing only a fragment. Playing with this idea, I suddenly realized that because of its length and the fact it tapers towards the top, I could accommodate the entire image of the violin on a graduated sequence of 3 plates. It was an extraordinary coincidence it fit so perfectly.
I am happy that the plates can be used to eat from in an ordinary way, displayed on a table or a wall to re-assemble the violin, placed in an orderly stack from large to small, be used singly or simply mixed up in a group."
Courtesy of Plinth
About Michael Craig-Martin
From The Magazine
- Interviews & Features: Turning Water Into... An Oak Tree: Michael Craig-Martin Discusses Performing a Miraculous Act of Conceptual Art
- Interviews & Features: Laughing at the End of the World: Painter Nigel Cooke on Finding Humor in His Dystopian Landscapes
- News & Events: Wall Power: Murals in Two Chelsea Shows, Ephemeral as Mayflies, Subvert the Sky-High Real Estate Market
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