Ceramic Snow Ball

Martì Guixé, Ceramic Snow Ball

It is a ceramic piece that you put inside your toilet water tank and helps you and your environment to save water.
How do you save water?
Because the volume of water is occupied by the ceramic snow ball.
Why in the shape of a snow ball?
Because snow is water in a volumetric shape, and it is white like standard bath ceramic.
A graphic sequence explaining how to use it is shown on the piece.

Martì Guixé

Ceramic Snow Ball by Marti Guixé was prototyped in Albisola (Italy) in 2005 during the 3rd Biennial of Ceramics in Contemporary Art and was also presented at the exhibition “Handmade in Albisola”, La Triennale, Milan Design Week 2007.

Surfvase

Marti Guixé, Surfvase  1

Marti Guixé, Surfvase  2

Martì Guixé’s Surfvase brings to the surface the combinatorial, experimental and innovative use of compositional elements associated with the visual arts and already successfully employed in his food-design. Martì Guixé inverts the usual relationship between vase and flower, which normally takes the flower as the content to be placed in the container vase. The Surfvase actually uses its own external walls as surfaces to be decorated by flowers, which climb up through the thirty-two perforated handles and hemp strings wrapped around it, bathed in its own strong wild scent.

Martì Guixé, Surfvase. “Di vaso in fiore”, Poldi Pezzoli Museum, Milan Design Week, 2011

Martì Guixé, Surfvase. “Changer le monde avec un vase à fleurs”, Mudac, Lausanne, 2011

Martì Guixé, Surfvase. “Cambiare il mondo con un vaso di fiori”, Pierluigi and Natalina Remotti Foundation-City of Camogli, 2010-2011

Martì Guixé, Surfvase. “Cambiar el mundo con un vaso de flores”, IItalian Cultural Institute, Madrid, 2010

Surfvase by Martì Guixé was prototyped in Albisola (Italy) on occasion of the travelling exhibition “Changing the world with a vase of flowers”, MUDAC-Museum of Design and Contemporary Applied Arts, Lausanne, 2011; Pierluigi and Natalina Remotti Foundation-City of Camogli, 2010-2011; Italian Cultural Institute of Madrid-Italian Embassy in Spain, 2010.
Surfvase was also presented at the exhibition “Di vaso in fiore”, Poldi Pezzoli Museum, Milan Design Week 2011.