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march 23, 2021 - Officine Saffi

MAGAZZINO Installation views


Officine Saffi presents Magazzino, an exhibition of recent works displayed for the first time at the gallery.

This group show arises from the simple desire to exhibit stunning ceramic works while summarizing the gallery’s path and artistic research. Behind each object on display lies a story, a research, an artist who has spent years developing a specific technique or a particular glaze or varying his kiln temperature by a few degrees. Each work brings with it a world of conceptual research and obsession.

The exhibition brings together 14 artists for an international overview of contemporary ceramics: Roger Coll, #miaegoransson, Morten Espersen, #kazuhitonagasawa, #irinarazumovskaya, Daniel Reynolds, Gippeum Roh, #andersruhwald, Koie Ryoji, Christina Schou Christensen, Zsolt József Simon, Kazuo Takiguchi, Kati Tuominen-Niittylä, Kaja Upelj.

In Objects from the Body for the Body, the Danish artist Anders Ruhwald presents seats, lamps and sculptures in an abstract and sensual domestic landscape. Every object can be experienced both as a sculpture and as furniture.

The organisms inhabiting Mia E Göransson's landscapes recall natural forms, fragmented and reassembled, in a New Nature that both hides and reveals the geometrical structures underlying the laws of nature.

Torbjørn Kvasbø celebrates his bond with clay by starting with the archetype of the form-container and examining its

Irina Razumovskaya presents three wall pieces that reproduce the ageing of the surfaces of architectural structures, evoking the sensation of layers of peeling paint or slowly crumbling stone.

Morten Espersen presents Horror Vacui, part of a twenty-year research on the object-vase. The vessel, dragged by its own glaze, frees itself from its function to expand into space.

Kazuhito Nagasawa presents Kioku, a group of Morandian-looking bottles that seem to have survived a nuclear catastrophe.

Together with all works on display, these pieces tell us about the fascinating and heterogeneous world of ceramics.