Qualc'uno

Denis Santachiara, Qualc'uno. ”Undisciplined”, Civic Art Gallery, Savona, 2006

Qualc’uno is a vase that can be used in two ways: resting like a traditional vase, it can contain a plant or a bunch of flowers, while turned upside-down, it can hold and exalt a single flower.
Working on the common idea of the terracotta vase, Santachiara proposes a shift, combining the iconography of the pottery vase with a noble material like ceramic. Through this project, defined by the artist as “white, multifunctional and deviating”, the ceramic removes and promotes the classic image of the vase. With Qualc’uno Santachiara transforms the colour of the fired material into the white of the ceramic and he replaces the functional uniqueness usually attributed to the vase with “a deviating double function”.

Qualc'uno by Denis Santachiara was prototyped in Albisola (Italy) in 2006 during the 3rd Biennial of Ceramics in Contemporary Art.

Denis Santachiara, Qualc'uno

Denis Santachiara, Qualc'uno

Denis Santachiara, Qualc'uno

Denis Santachiara has tackled the archetype of a humble red earthenware vase, which has been redesigned and turned on its head to hold flowers in a world which we can see upside down.

Denis Santachiara, Qualc'uno. “Di vaso in fiore”, Poldi Pezzoli Museum, Milan Design Week 2011

Denis Santachiara, Qualc'uno. “Changer le monde avec un vase à fleurs”, Mudac, Lausanne, 2011

Denis Santachiara, Qualc'uno. “Cambiare il mondo con un vaso di fiori”, Pierluigi and Natalina Remotti Foundation-City of Camogli, 2010-2011

Qualc'uno by Denis Santachiara was prototyped in 2007 in Albisola (Italy) on occasion of the exhibition “Handmade in Albisola”, La Triennale, Milan Design Week 2007 and was also presented at the following exhibitions: “ACDI”, Triennale Bovisa 2008; “Changing the world with a vase of flowers”, MUDAC-Museum of Design and Contemporary Applied Arts, Lausanne; Pierluigi and Natalina Remotti Foundation-City of Camogli, 2010-2011; Italian Cultural Institute of Madrid-Italian Embassy in Spain, 2010; “Di vaso in fiore”, Poldi Pezzoli Museum, Milan Design Week 2011; “Design. Una storia italiana (1948-2011)”, Mercati di Traiano-Museo dei Fori Imperiali, Rome; Palazzo Bertalazone di San Fermo, Turin, 2011.