Collect art fair, London
An exhibition presenting two core artists from the gallery’s programme, whose practices expand the very idea of what contemporary craft can be. Their works challenge our assumptions of materiality, offering objects that resist immediate recognition and reward close attention.
Valeriya Isyak is a remarkable ceramic artist whose work truly blurs the intermedia boundaries in contemporary art. Her wall sculptures, made from thousands of hand-crafted porcelain petals, combine delicate craftsmanship with profound artistic expression.
Vadim Kibardin is a Prague based artist and designer acclaimed for his innovation in circular and sustainable design. Kibardin’s practice merges ecological urgency
with material experimentation. Kibardin has developed a distinct sculptural language centered around discarded paper and cardboard, transforming industrial and consumer waste into collectible functional objects that challenge the boundary between furniture and art.
Olexandr Pinchuk's work is a dance between stillness and motion, metal and fabric. His Iron & Canvas mirrors capture movement and vitality, like a stroke of light painted across a canvas. These mirrors exude a gothic energy, their textile frames reminiscent of ancient Greek marble sculptures, offering a dynamic interplay of form and texture.
Studio YOCHIYA, the Tokyo-based duo of Central Saint Martins graduates Yoichiro Hatanaka and Yachiyo Kawana, revisit the long tradition of cloisonné (shippÅ-yaki) with a focus on materiality and process. Their Shippo vases draw on a craft shaped by global exchange, from ancient Egypt to Byzantium and China, and later influenced by Dutch-imported wares during Japan’s period of isolation. Rather than treating cloisonné as a fixed technique, they work with welding, hydraulic pressure, and methods that let the metal shift, bend and respond. Through this blend of heritage and experimentation, YOCHIYA opens new possibilities for a historical technique.
Through intricate research and exceptional skill, each artist creates forms that appear to be one thing while being made of something entirely different — singular works that stand apart in the international field.
