Annick Vandecappelle - a former fashion stylist - has devoted herself to ceramic sculptures which have become her new language.
Analyzing the subtle tension between different elements and forms, she cuts and reassembles. The clash of geometrical and biomorphic shapes gives birth to strange compositions, pure and rigid.
Not unlike an architect she creates volumes ‘en suite’. All the while playing with proportion, rhythm and balance, like a jazz musician who follows the creative urge without a clearly defined goal.
 
The things that inspire her are quite diverse. Abstract art of the twenties and thirties, as well as art deco and contemporary architecture regularly spark the creative process. Thus producing pieces halfway between sculpture and architecture by reappropriating traditional elements in standalone ceramic forms. The use of clay with a high chamotte percentage gives her work a stone-like appearance.
 
Each new piece is the result of a meticulous search and the starting point of an ever continuing attempt to redefine the possibilities. Always looking for the shape of things to come.
 
Annick Vandecappelle (°1961) works and lives in Antwerp.
She studied decorative arts at St-Lukas in Brussels and ceramics at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp.