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Kyveli Makri

Lives and works in Athens, Greece
www.kyvelimakri.com

Born in Athens, greece, kyveli Makri creates con- with use of recycled metals. Later, her minimalist style
temporary hybrid hand-built ceramics using clay, is interpreted in vessels with formative liquid lines,
wood, plexiglas and recycled metals. Her concepts inspired by findings from excavations of ancient greek
are defined by her minimalist usage of design such as pottery and specifically designed for the art store of
simplistic lines and subtle subject contours. the Acropolis Museum in Athens.
Her early work focuses on conceptual block-like Today, Makri’s works can be found at the art shops
ceramic sculptures of houses repetitively set on of the Acropolis Museum, the Museum of greek Folk
wood and plexiglas. Her later work has evolved to Art, the Benaki Museum, and the Centre for the Study
include abstract subjects in ceramic media such as of Modern Pottery, in private collections and various
ceramic sculptures of ships and factories combined art galleries in greece.
red ShiP, 2011 RED CLAY AND RECYCLED METALS ON wOOD 18.5x4x7 IN. | 47x10x18 CM. 
hoUSeS, 2011 wHITE CLAY IN PLExIGLAS bOx 31.5x4x5.5 IN. | 80x10x14CM. 
 VeSSelS, 2012 SLIP-bURNISHED EARTHENwARE vESSELS SEALED wITH wAx.

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