Bas-Reliefs - Ronan Bouroullec interviews MAX VON WERZ – The

MAX VON WERZ – The German-raised architect leaves his mark in Mexico City

or to lay down a strict story

cookery writer and renowned teacher

He has been making art since the 1970s

as it is both characteristic of the modern world and unchanging over long periods over time

Bas-Reliefs - Ronan Bouroullec interviews MAX VON WERZ – TheWe could look at Ronan Bouroullecs ceramic bas reliefs and see traces of a language we recognize: the silhouettes of familiar objects, the contours of known landscapes. We might be tempted to look at the work as an alphabet of mere things, think of the pieces objectively. But as tableaux, the reliefs are not quite right: one has an edge that goes too far, another a circle thats off center and about to roll, and still another, a pinkish mass that could