Derelict @ Masterworks Gallery

For Thinkspace MOTH has invited artist Karl Chitham to re-create vessels from the little known collections of failed architect and potter A. Verlassen. According to a close friend and former business partner, Verlassen amassed an impressive collection of ceramic vessels created by architects from all over the world. Very few people were aware this collection existed and even fewer ever had the chance to see it before it was destroyed in the 1960’s. It has been suggested that the collection contained examples by some of the world’s most renowned architects but this has never been fully substantiated.

For Derelict, Chitham has used existing descriptions of works from the collection and placed them into an architectural framework. Through this collaboration MOTH hopes to provide a sense of the relationships Verlassen and the architects may have had with their pots.


A recent listing in Urbis Magazine featuring the Derelict exhibition. 

Le Corbusier, 2011, Courtesy of MOTH

Gummer, 2011, Courtesy of MOTH