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Roberta Busato, Escaia, sculpture in alabaster
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EQUILIBRIUM WITHIN EXTREMES
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Extreme magnetism, scent of earthy passages and fusion of perfection and imperfection. Roberta Busato’s new sculpture in alabaster Escaia strikes the soul because of its unique mystery, oscillating in the area of finito and non-finito. This sculpture represents the moment when fragility becomes strength, where the artist's creation meets the forces of nature, playing on the relationship between form and essence, delicacy and fierceness, destruction and reconstruction.
As humans, we are shaped by our experiences, constantly in search of interior harmonisation, a dynamic balance of all things, darkness and light, yin-yang. Our internal capacity for transformation may expand and strengthen through our falls and picking ourselves up again, and essentially through our encounter with Art. With the beginning of 2022, we inaugurate a new year, a new cycle, looking forward to surrounding ourselves with Art as an irreplaceable means of inspiration, wonder and hope.
Let everything happen to you
Beauty and terror
Just keep going
No feeling is final
- Rainer Maria Rilke
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Katrien Doms
Using fire at high temperatures and atmospheric elements as mediums in her creative journey, Katrien is exposed to a very physically intense and time-consuming process. Her art pieces are handmade in solid-soft wood without the use of any electrical device, only hollowed out by the fire and extreme heat.
48h x 50w x 8d cm
18.9h x 19.6w x 3.1d in
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Roberta Busato
After a long-time working with raw earth, Roberta approaches Volterra alabaster stone for the first time, creating a series of new and enigmatic faces in agate, white alabaster and bardiglio. Each sculpture tells a story of the different minerals and chemical compositions of the soil, revealed through the shades of colour or its veins.
45h x 34w x 19d cm
17.7h x 13.3w x 7.4d in
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Alain Bonnefoit
Painter, engraver and sculptor, Alain is one of the most highly acclaimed painters of nudes working today. His distinctive style embraces the use of various techniques. He has experimented with the most varied means of expression: mixed techniques on canvas paper, lithograph and engraving, sumi-e and sculpture in marble, bronze and ultimately alabaster, as in the case of Menerva.
29h x 22w x 24d cm
11.4h x 8.6w x 9.4d in
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Marco Bellini
Spanning forms of vases, recepticals, vessels, caves, mounds and wombs, Marco’s work encompasses the ideas of melancholy, forlornness and solitude. His background in philosophy penetrates his mindful work with wood, while his research continues in these new pieces. His controlled process of destruction creates unexpected structures in walnut, with mesmerising depth and colour.
26h x 42⌀ cm
10.3h x 16.5⌀ in
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Katrien Doms
Katrien’s artistic research takes inspiration from Nature and its form, starting with raw wood to create sculptural wall pieces permeated with emotion: undulating slopes, a poetic balance between concave and convex surfaces, and a depth of colour are the key features of her artworks. In her work, nature, climate and atmospheric elements are her partners, her mediums.
28w x 150h x 2-8d cm
59w x 111h x 0.7-3.1d in
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Sabine Pagliarulo
Through an appreciation of the Japanese wabi-sabi philosophy, Sabine re-interprets the universe with a poet’s eye, where imperfections and different shades of colour give life and intensity to the ceramic pieces. The result of her artistic process is the sign of the emotional journey rising from the encounter with the clay, the essential aesthetics and the shaping of the form.
35h x 32w x 32d cm
13.8h x 12.6w x 12.6d in
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| ESCAIA |
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Roberta Busato
In Roberta's contemporary artistic research, alabaster itself is at the centre of the her investigation, and consequently her sculptures reveal different varieties rich in inclusions, hydroxides and metal oxides. Each vein indicates a metamorphosis, tells a story, and uncovers a movement which happened in the ground.
44h x 20w x 19d cm
17.3h x 7.87w x 7.4d in
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Marc Ricourt
Marc's artistic process draws inspiration from the vessel, that ancient utilitarian object. Known for his original and elegant pieces made in Dijon wood, the French woodturner experiments with dried firewood taken from the tree’s heart, to create highly textured rugged surfaces that heighten the sculptural aspect of his work.
18h x 33⌀ cm
7.1h x 13⌀ in
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Marc Ricourt
Marc's artistic process includes deconstructing vessel shapes, playing on the relationship between function and form, and utilising fire as a primary factor. Having a fascination towards many traditional art forms, from Oceania to Africa, and from the Bronze age to the present, his pieces often give the impression of remote cultures or lost civilisations.
23h x 24⌀ cm
9h x 9.4⌀ in
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Kate Windibank
Searching for the most intriguing sense of balance and contrast, strength and fragility, Kate creates forms in ceramic with undulating edges, fault lines and fissures. During the multiple firings, the oxides embedded in clay are drawn to the surface, reacting with the glaze to create movement and texture on the surface of the vessels.
31h x 40w x 20d cm
12.2h x 15.7w x 7.8d in
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KATRIEN DOMS
THE DESTRUCTIVE & CREATIVE FORCE OF NATURE
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The meaning of life, holding on... creativity is the best medicine. - Katrien Doms
Nature and climate are her partners, her main mediums. Katrien Doms’ (Ghent, 1978) art pieces are created in solid-soft wood and completely handmade without the use of any electrical tools, but hollowed out by fire and extreme heat. Wood plays a special role in the artist’s heart, because of its natural and textural features, and even its therapeutic qualities. Although the history of wood carving goes back to prehistoric times, with the production of ritual objects, only during modernity are artists returning to woodworking highlighting the artistic potentiality and the beauty of this material in the fields of contemporary art and art living.
Katrien’s artistic research takes inspiration from Nature and its form, starting with raw wood to create sculptural wall pieces permeated with emotion: undulating slopes, a poetic balance between concave and convex surfaces, and a depth of colour are the key features of her artworks. Using fire, wind, humidity and extreme temperatures as mediums exposes her to a physically intense and time-consuming process, and drives her to consider uncertainty and any chance of failure as part of art creation.
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