THE GIFT OF ART, PART 2 | Featured Artworks

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Yoshimi Futamura for KALPA, ceramic vase sculpture

THE GIFT OF ART, PART 2

Consider the magnetic and intriguing gaze of a raw earth sculpture; the warmth emanating from wood and ceramic pieces; the enchantment experienced in front of a painting. Treating oneself to moments of beauty is intrinsic to man. It is an ancient perennial necessity. Everything is an emotional exchange, a timeless relationship that arises instinctively with a work of art, with our domestic and working habitat, with the objects with which we surround ourselves.

The place we call home emerges from the encounter between us and the space around us, characterised by our language, our culture and our habits. It is relational, historical and reflects the identity of each of us. Each of the artworks we present to you below has a unique story to tell arising out of its workmanship, the origin of the material and the artist who imagined and realised it. In other words, it has its own unique identity. Follow our visual journey, and discover some distinctive and precious pieces available from the KALPA Art Living collection.

FEATURED ARTWORKS

AOKIGAHARA #2

Marco Bellini

The artist exposes his pieces to fire for longer than what’s common practice in woodturning, exasperating its effects and allowing such natural elements to design the flow of lines, defects and colours. This new oak series features a peculiar shade of red/orange colour due to the ferrous oxides applied on the surface of the piece.

11 h x 21ø cm
4.3 h x 8.2ø in

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FRAMMENTI

Sabine Pagliarulo

Starting from a closed-form slab in light chamotte refractory clay, Sabine models the piece with innumerable gestures. After applying the porcelain layer and after the first cooking, she applies the white engobe all over the piece, then she removes it irregularly to give an impression of greater naturalness and transparency both in texture and colour.

30h x 22,5w x 12d cm
11.8h x 8.8w x 4.7d in

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VASE 03

Yoshimi Futamura

Yoshimi's work references both modern and classical themes in Japanese ceramics. Her use of naturally occurring organic textures is combined with traditional shapes, creating unique works of art. Because of the high temperature of the firing, the texture of her artworks in Raku ceramic may appear burned, crushed, creased, charred, or speckled with fine granules.

34h x 41,5w x 14d cm
13.4h x 16.3w x 5.5d in

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FIELDS OF SUN

Olga Niescier

In Olga’s oeuvre, micro and macro representations of Nature become the artist’s inner journey toward a sense of self-consciousness and reconciliation with the Universe. The dense texture characteristic of her artworks is achieved by skilful and patient application of layers of acrylic paint, inks, pastels, powder pigments and oil colours, and at times also dried herbs.

154.5h x 116w x 5d cm
60.8h x 45.6w x 2d in

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11-09-19 MTW

Guillem Nadal

Guillem's paintings can be placed within the theoretical bracket of Conceptualism, a movement in which concepts and ideas foreshadow traditional aesthetic concerns. The textural consistency of his paintings made in mixed media, as well as the bold streaks stretching out across the canvas, are reminiscent of both raw material and sculptural work.

175h x 150w cm
68.8h x 59w in

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MINEPHORE XXXI

Claire Fréchet

Claire has developed a very singular artistic language in ceramics, inspired by aesthetic’s links between geology, astronomy and botany. The sculptures of this series express the powerful interactions between plants and stones underscored by light and shade subtle phenomenons. Polished and eroded surfaces evoke a skin caressed by the elements at the dawn.

42h x 11ø cm
16.5h x 4.3ø in

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SELVANS

Roberta Busato

The artist’s process of defining, dialoguing and shaping the material stands at the core of her creative research and carries the marks of a primordial and universal gesture. According to Roberta, retracing the significance of raw earth in architecture means investigating the history of humanity. Her sculptures, heads and bodies are made of clay, natural inerts and straw air-dried, although devoid of the last step of the traditional making process: firing.

81h x 25w x 25d cm
32h x 9.9w x 9.9d in

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UNTITLED SERIES 2021

Eleonor Herbosch

Eleanor's creative process starts focusing on the texture of both painting and ceramics. Clay is a natural earth-derived material, much of which her paintings consist of, in the form of soil which she digs from her garden to be mixed with oils and acrylics. Her work aspires to break the boundaries between these art forms and languages, as well as to enable them to work coherently with one another and to be displayed as one.

120h x 160w x 2,5d cm
47.2h x 63w x 1d in

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SLIPPER ORCHID STUDY

Michelle Mckinney

Whilst utilising symbols found in nature that have a timeless constancy, both methods and media used by Michelle are innovative applications of contemporary industrial materials subtly handled so that even the closest scrutiny give almost no intimation of their origins. Her artworks are bedded in the clear space between the opposites: fragility and ephemerality of nature captured in the strength and permanence of industrial, man-made materials.

56h x 24⍉ cm
22h x 9.4⍉ in

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RUST OAK #1

Marc Ricourt

Using the local wood from Dijon, Marc initially turned on a traditional lathe and then intricately carved and treated the surfaces through bleaching, dying or an application of ferrous oxide. Recently, the artist has been experimenting with dried out firewood taken from the heart of the tree, to create highly textured rugged surfaces that heighten the sculptural aspect of his work. He conjures up organic shapes that recall seed-pods and the undulating edges of leaves, carved as delicate linear fins.

32,5h x 32⌀cm
12.8h x 12.6⌀i n

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