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War and Pieces
War and Pieces photographed in the Dining Room at Berrington Hall, Herefordshire, a six-metre long piece, inspired by the sugar sculptures found on the tables of the wealthy in the 17th century.
The work is made of broken antique porcelain and glassware as well as parts of children's plastic toys and sugar, bringing together the notions of modern warfare and art with those of the 18th and 19th centuries to make us consider what we think beautiful or useful.
Bouke de Vries is a Dutch artist who studied fashion and textiles before retraining as an art restorer. The act of giving life back to broken artworks is what led him to explore the deconstruction of objects and how they could be given new life. War and Pieces has been exhibited worldwide and at Berrington Hall until November 2017.
War and Pieces
War and Pieces photographed in the Dining Room at Berrington Hall, Herefordshire, a six-metre long piece, inspired by the sugar sculptures found on the tables of the wealthy in the 17th century.
The work is made of broken antique porcelain and glassware as well as parts of children's plastic toys and sugar, bringing together the notions of modern warfare and art with those of the 18th and 19th centuries to make us consider what we think beautiful or useful.
Bouke de Vries is a Dutch artist who studied fashion and textiles before retraining as an art restorer. The act of giving life back to broken artworks is what led him to explore the deconstruction of objects and how they could be given new life. War and Pieces has been exhibited worldwide and at Berrington Hall until November 2017.