Simone Berti
Simone Berti, Pipe Dream 1
Simone Berti, Pipe Dream 2
Simone Berti, Pipe Dream 3
Simone Berti, Pipe Dream 4
In Simone Berti’s visionary world, terracotta pipes worked on lathes and fitted to sharp-edged sheets of aluminium look like vases for holding the marble dust used to create artificial flowers. Simone Berti’s imposing sculptural structures, like spectacular monuments devoted to flower vases, create a factory-like atmosphere and appear to be mysterious hieroglyphics from some phantasmagoric industrial age gone by.
Alessandro Biamonti
Alessandro Biamonti, Moribana
Alessandro Biamonti, Moribana
Alessandro Biamonti’s project draws on the ancient tradition of Moribana, the Japanese art in which vases and flowers, branches and leaves are blended into one single decorative combination. Biamonti’s Moribanas take shape in low, round and not very deep receptacles, iridescent black and candy pink in colour, inside which rare stems and twigs rise up off-centre and curved between stones and flowers.
Andrea Branzi
Andrea Branzi, Picassi in cocci 1
Andrea Branzi, Picassi in cocci 2
Andrea Branzi, Picassi in cocci 3
Andrea Branzi, Picassi in cocci 4
Andrea Branzi, Picassi in cocci 5
Linde Burkhardt
Linde Burkhardt, Tre per due 1, 2, 3
Linde Burkhardt, Tre per due
Linde Burkhardt, Tre per due 4, 5, 6
Linde Burkhardt, Tre per due
In Linde Burkhardt’s projects each of her vases is divided into two halves held together by a lid, and each separate half appears to be double the other. The separate vase halves, without the lid joining them and holding them together, can also create free compositions in space as befits the user, who can set them out in provisional and hence adjustable arrangements.
Fernando e Humberto Campana
Fernando e Humberto Campana, Vaso Tegola
Fernando e Humberto Campana, Vaso Tegola
Fernando and Humberto Campana’s vase draws on the ready-made technique by re-utilising industrially manufactured terracotta roof tiles normally used in the building industry for constructing the roofs of houses. The Campana brothers’ project involved recycling modified roof tiles to be combined with wicker, which craftsmen have cleverly woven into unusual-shaped vases.
Lorenzo Damiani
Lorenzo Damiani, Digital Flower
Lorenzo Damiani, Digital Flower
Lorenzo Damiani, Digital Flower
Lorenzo Damiani has designed at television-vase for viewing digital flowers from “long-distance”. This is a high-tech vase fitted with plasma television screens, which, like a micro-work of total art, provides a multi-sensorial experience combining sequences of digital images of flowers with samples of natural birdsong.
Paolo Deganello
Paolo Deganello, 35 x 35 x un fiore
Paolo Deganello has, first and foremost, designed a vase in the two dimensions of perspective ready to transpose it, just as he designed it, into the third sculptural dimension of ceramics. The literal transfer of the perspective design from a sheet of paper into the third dimension of ceramics creates a vase, which shows off its own deformation caused by perspective illusionism as a conventional and arbitrary process of coding and decoding.
Florénce Doléac
Florénce Doléac, Lolo 1
Florénce Doléac, Lolo 2
Florénce Doléac, Lolo 3
Florénce Doléac, Lolo 4
In Lolo the flat and round vases, which look like vinyl records, are actually decorated like collectors’ Picture-Discs, but in the vintage colours of mother-of-pearl and Sunburst rock-band guitar.
Florénce Doléac, XLS
In XLS the shape of the sculptural projecting vases appears to derive from violent twists and torsions. The tube-shaped vases actually seem to have been forcibly folded over, even though they are made of ceramic and hyper-realistically simulate both copper as a material and the sense of torsion.
