Marco Ferreri
Marco Ferreri, 3 x 1
Marco Ferreri considers the vase as a container and has designed a composition of vases holding of other vases. At the same time Marco Ferreri has decorated the vase by citing and combining Optical signs from the 1950s and ceramic enamels applied like “orange peel”, reminiscent of the ceramics of the Second Wave of Futurism in the 1930s when it came to Albisola.
Alberto Garutti
Alberto Garutti, Idria. Che cosa succede nelle stanze quando vanno via gli uomini?
Alberto Garutti, Giara. Che cosa succede nelle stanze quando vanno via gli uomini?
Alberto Garutti, Tulipaniera. Che cosa succede nelle stanze quando vanno via gli uomini?
Alberto Garutti, Idria. Che cosa succede nelle stanze quando vanno via gli uomini?
Alberto Garutti, Giara. Che cosa succede nelle stanze quando vanno via gli uomini?
Alberto Garutti, Tulipaniera. Che cosa succede nelle stanze quando vanno via gli uomini?
Alberto Garutti updates traditional local ceramic vases by turning them into ghosts. The jugs, vases decorated with masks, and tulip-holders have been treated with zinc silicate - the phosphorescent white colour can only be seen in the dark revealing sculptural forms. In actual fact, Alberto Garutti’s sculptures appear to have been created in exclusive and solitary relation to the space they take up, actually excluding the onlooker. The work of art, in the absence of any onlookers - when the museum is locked up at night-time - is triumphantly lit up in the darkness of the space where it stands. Photography comes to the aid of onlookers as a means of revealing the work of art and its hidden secret, which is eventually disclosed in the catalogue.
Alexis Georgacopoulos
Alexis Georgacopoulos, Duetto 1
Alexis Georgacopoulos, Duetto
Alexis Georgacopoulos, Duetto 2
Alexis Georgacopoulos, Duetto
Alexis Georgacopoulos, Duetto 3
Alexis Georgacopoulos, Duetto
Duetto by Alexis Georgacopoulos is a vase with a spout for attaching its complementary perforated lid, depending on the floral compositions the vase is designed to hold. The vase features a minimal and, at the same time, playful stylistic design: the lid hanging from the spout like a hat on a stand also seems to indicate a sort of rest position for the vase. Duetto designed by Georgacopoulos also displays strikingly simple colour combinations of enamels and earthenware, which also appear to be duetting.
Marti Guixé
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.
Pekka Harni
Pekka Harni, Planet B
Pekka Harni’s vase is shaped like an ultra-shiny space station and also evokes the small symbolic flower receptacles of traditional Ikebana. The project actually creates an Ikebana on the cusp between the past and present, between nature and artifice, in which the flowers are the inhabitants of this organic station of the future.
Corrado Levi
Corrado Levi, Flower
Corrado Levi actually seems to be avoiding the idea of designing a vase, preferring instead to evoke Andy Warhol’s Flowers, which he has transformed into shiny-coloured sculptural structures extravagantly displayed on the walls. The designer returns to the “scene of the crime” - the vase project - to remind us that “it is taken for granted that the vase is hidden by the flower”.
Hugo Meert
Hugo Meert, Terrarist
Hugo Meert, Terrarist (particolare)
In Hugo Meert’s sculpture little men shaped out of enamelled ceramic disintegrate the fruits of human labour - the vase - climbing up its walls holding small hammers with which they chip away at the edges breaking them into bits. Hugo Meert seems to be interpreting his vase along Luddite lines, inspired by both Art & Craft tradition and Punk aesthetics.
Alessandro Mendini
Alessandro Mendini, Tre sfere 3
Alessandro Mendini, Tre sfere 4
Alessandro Mendini’s vases are complex sculptural forms translating soap bubbles into ceramics, as they interpenetrate in the air with absolute lightness. The stylistic and slightly snobbish reference to small substanceless bubbles opens up the way to an amusing project, which excludes any kind of major narrative. The soap bubbles, reworked and enlarged in precious metals like gold, bronze and shiny black, stand out in space like weird, fragile presences.
