Untitled 1970

This untitled piece by Mihai Olos, I am guessing it is glazed ceramic, builds itself with a playful yet formal approach. It's all about process. There's a tension here, between the industrial and the handmade, between the smooth planes of the forms and the runny surface of the glaze. Look at how the glaze coagulates and drips. Each little stalactite records the movement of the liquid across the surface. I am drawn to the drips on the vertical planes that look like rows of teeth or piano keys. It is as if the planes are in a state of becoming something else. I think that the work is so strong because it is unresolved. I wonder if he looked at Bauhaus ceramics, like those of Otto Lindig. There's something so cool about artists who embrace the accidental, who let the material have its say. Art is not about control, but about conversation.