Contemporary Green Paper Clay Sculpture PINO MONO

The Pino collection debuts as an enchanting addition to Paola Paronetto's Cartocci family. These vessels, in a variety of shapes and sizes, are designed to captivate. Some evoke the ...

The Pino collection debuts as an enchanting addition to Paola Paronetto's Cartocci family. These vessels, in a variety of shapes and sizes, are designed to captivate. Some evoke the ...

Peana Model 3 Large Green Vessel by Eter Design Unique Piece. Dimensions: Ø 15.2 x H 56 cm. Materials: Clay. Sustainable - Eco-friendly. Handmade. E...

Organic Vase, 2015, (Ceramic, C. 12.1 in. h x 7.5 in. d, Object No.: 3389). Turi Heisselberg Pedersen has, all through her career, strived to develop the vessel as abstract form and as an independent sculptural object. As Turi notes “working in clay is to me connected with many underlying cultural bound references, but also strongly connected to nature. The very process of building in clay is a process from nature to culture. We have an inherent understanding of beauty and design evolved in thousands of years of visual impressions from our cultural history, but especially also from nature. In this context, I am aiming to create a visual and emotional reading of the objects, working with shape, rhythm, volume, movement, and texture”. In the interplay between culture and nature, Turi’s works are inspired by geological structures and crystal formations, but also by architecture, the edged rendering of a computer drawing or folded paper shapes. Most of her faceted shapes seem to have a seed of coincidence or unplanned development, reminding one of crystal formations growing in irregular clusters.? Heisselberg Pedersen’s sculptures are hand-modeled from stoneware and glazed with slip-glazes, which gives the works a stone-like, dry surface with a rich texture. Some of Turi’s designs...