Lapi Boli Project | New Glass Now

A man wearing glasses is hunched over a pottery wheel forming a vessel with yellow stripes.

Five small, colorful vases look as if they have a sandy texture. L-R, they are tan and brown, lavender and gray, light green, orange and light green, and lavender, gray and cream.

Materials:: Pâte de verre vases in the Lapi Boli technique
Dimensions:: Largest: 7 x 5.5 x 5.5 and Video, 4 min.
Made:: China, Jingdezhen, and The Netherlands, Woudenberg : 2017|2018
Credit:: Project assistants: Hao Ran Zhu, Wilma Hornsveld

Artist(s):

Israel, Krista: born: 1975; The Netherlands
Tani, Ayako: born: 1981; Japan

United Kingdom
Kruijk, Hans de: born: 1947; The Netherlands

Selector Statement

From time to time, you learn something new, and you can’t see the world in the same way again. That’s how I feel about the Lapi Boli Project, which brings together artists from four countries for the innovative task of throwing pâte de verre (glass paste) on the pottery wheel. Such a simple idea and such incredible impact.

–Silbert, Susie J.