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Ode to precariousness
Francesco Ardini cranks out 2 new series of vases: "Proliferazioni", a proliferation of bacteria that is free to evolve and mutate, and "Vasebook", inspired by the social network and with which to update and share your mood.
Francesco Ardini’s vision of reality plays with precariousness, in a process that fragments whatever surrounds him.
Non-homogeneity, dissolution, breakage; in his work everything results in a naturalism in which nothing is absolute but everything is relative and unstable.
In his latest series, part of the "Proliferazioni" family, we see vases infiltrating, growing and hatching in every angle of home. We observe them as their surface loses form and sense, a familiar element devoured by a live and unpredictable bacterial strain.
"The difficulty was in finding a dialogue with the chromaticities", says Ardini, who realized each piece by hand, "a complex aspect to be managed when working with ceramic".
The reactant matter burns and deforms the surface. It becomes a cluster of volumes that resemble microorganisms and primordial elements. The pieces are thus bred with a pure form. It is stressed to the point of forming holes, underlining how each mutation occurs in the presence of oxygen that changes its shape.
Restlessness and beauty side by side in a challenge, that rather than decreeing a winner, instead shows the play of coexisting forces.
In the second series, "Vasebook", Ardini goes back to the simplicity of a white vase, but with something new: the vase can be updated to share one’s mood, as in a social network. Its humor adapts to the domestic space. Take off the lid and – though the dialogue continues in its bubbles – the vase performs its regular function.
Born in 1986, Ardini discovers ceramic as an autodidact and starts a personal investigation that Lancia TrendVisions has written about in a previous article.
His pieces follow a subtle sense of lightness, typical of those subjected to time. A lightness that takes shape in the vases, feeding yet ravaging them. Vases with a domestic substance but a human soul.
Photos © ardidesign.com
Francesco Ardini’s vision of reality plays with precariousness, in a process that fragments whatever surrounds him.
Non-homogeneity, dissolution, breakage; in his work everything results in a naturalism in which nothing is absolute but everything is relative and unstable.
In his latest series, part of the "Proliferazioni" family, we see vases infiltrating, growing and hatching in every angle of home. We observe them as their surface loses form and sense, a familiar element devoured by a live and unpredictable bacterial strain.
"The difficulty was in finding a dialogue with the chromaticities", says Ardini, who realized each piece by hand, "a complex aspect to be managed when working with ceramic".
The reactant matter burns and deforms the surface. It becomes a cluster of volumes that resemble microorganisms and primordial elements. The pieces are thus bred with a pure form. It is stressed to the point of forming holes, underlining how each mutation occurs in the presence of oxygen that changes its shape.
Restlessness and beauty side by side in a challenge, that rather than decreeing a winner, instead shows the play of coexisting forces.
In the second series, "Vasebook", Ardini goes back to the simplicity of a white vase, but with something new: the vase can be updated to share one’s mood, as in a social network. Its humor adapts to the domestic space. Take off the lid and – though the dialogue continues in its bubbles – the vase performs its regular function.
Born in 1986, Ardini discovers ceramic as an autodidact and starts a personal investigation that Lancia TrendVisions has written about in a previous article.
His pieces follow a subtle sense of lightness, typical of those subjected to time. A lightness that takes shape in the vases, feeding yet ravaging them. Vases with a domestic substance but a human soul.
Photos © ardidesign.com
07 March 2012
2 Comments
FIAT Group Automobiles S.p.A.
rosanna mazzon
Solo ciò che muore può rinascere. In realtà a livello atomico la morte non esiste, è solo il passaggio fra un\'aggregazione e un\'altra. Mai gli atomi sono più liberi che nel momento della disgregazione.
8 March 2012
mauro
fantastici !!!
7 March 2012