Since graduating in 2008, Danish ceramic artist Maria Rubinke has attracted an enormous amount of attention with her unconventional small-scale sculptures. The inherent innocence of porcelain figurines is put at risk in the artist's work, in which various catastrophes result in fragmentation and deformation. Violence and aggression are often played out in bloody tableaux, in strong sharp contrast to the decorative delicacy of the materials used. Powerful, disturbing and thought provoking work. Take a look below at some of our favorite pieces by Maria Rubinke.
Rubinke´s work can perhaps be interpreted as a critical commentary on our consumer society. A society in which humans can be easily confused with consumable items. The artist´s figures are carefully composed in a way that gives them psychological content; usually by playing on burlesque and humoristic associations. By subjecting everyday objects to a displacement, in some instances creating a new eroticized hybrid, the artist quietly summons up the sinister.
Trophies - 2009/2010 - Porcelain & wood
D(on´t) eat yourself up - 2010 - Porcelain & wood & Power to the people, Power addict - 2009 - Porcelain
Cinderella goes insane - 2009 - Porcelain & Devil in disguise - 2009 - Porcelain
My LSD (Little Smiling Devil) - 2010 - Porcelain
Ønskebørn - 2009 - Porcelain on wood
Unititled - 2010 - Porcelain on wood
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