Looking at the Wave of Ceramics in “Busted” at Cooler Gallery, Brooklyn

Seminal 20th century Italian designer and one of the founding members of the highly influential Memphis Group, Ettore Sottsass once said, “Ceramics are older than the bible and Jesus Christ, older than all the poems ever written, older than all the houses, older than all metals. Ceramics support everything… They bear culture, as ethnologists say, societies, people, kingdoms, sultanates, and even empires…the whole truth is there. (1962)