A Uriel Caspi sculpture looks simultaneously ancient and scientific. He builds large ceramic forms that borrow from techniques thousands of years old and finishes them in an iridescent Arabian lustre made with precious earth metals, so the surfaces shimmer like something dug up from a future civilisation.
His method deliberately collides eras. He combines old hand techniques, among them the traditional Jarre-a-la-corde rope-coiling method, with digital fabrication, then glazes the results in that metallic lustre. The pieces are made to be shown together, as large sculptural installations rather than single objects.
Born in 1994, he trained at the Bezalel Academy in Jerusalem and took an MFA at Alfred University in New York. He has shown at the Armory Show in New York with Yossi Milo, at the ceramics museums of Faenza, the Westerwald and Yingge in Taipei, and at Collect in London, and appeared on the cover of Ceramic Review in 2025.
