2025 participant Evident Talent '25 at Terra Delft
2024 participant Keramiek in 38CC, onderdeel van Delftse Keramiek Dagen
From early childhood, ceramic ar st Uriel Caspi has been fascinated with clay. He received a BFA in Ceramics from the Bezalel Academy in Jerusalem and an MFA from Alfred University, NY, USA. Caspi has exhibited works and installations in museums and galleries in the United States, Europe, Israel, Taiwan and Japan.
Navigating between arts and crafts, traditions and innovations, cultures and histories, Uriel Caspi’s artworks propose an interplay between the revival of ancient crafts and contemporary art studio practice. Visually inspired by archeological remnants from the Middle East and the aesthetics of future design, immersive installations of large-scale ceramic sculptures operate as platforms for artistic interaction between the viewer and the artist. Relics from antiquity and objects from the domicile are subject to contemporary interpreta ons, and collide with multicultural references from across the globe. This amalgam of influences allows the artist to perform a sort of inner excavation, revealing narratives, memories, and personal sediments that compose the iconography of his art.
His creative practice encompasses visual and conceptual aspects as well as research into material culture and global heritage of ceramics. During the recent years, he is preserving alternative clay modelling and glazing techniques from an quity, mostly skills which have almost vanished due to an extensive global industrializa on. Qualities and aesthetics of traditional techniques are occasionally combined with digital fabrication, and demonstrate the predictability and randomness of ceramic materials, their processes, and their broad limits.
