Stack 2

This artwork featured in The Precious Clay (2019). 

Defying the expectations of fragility and preciousness often associated with porcelain, Casasempere dares to treat it with raw vigour and to stretch its limitations. Artist and medium seem entangled in an intense and intimate collaboration, the energy of the artist meeting that of the clay.

Stack 2 hints to Casasempere’s much larger works that can be read topographically, almost as a document of the landscape. They call into question the relationship between art and the environment, between culture and the earth from which sculptures are made. Working on a large scale for decades has given Casasempere a license to stretch porcelain to tectonic limits.

Image: Fernando Casasempere, Stack 2, porcelain and stoneware, 2015. Image courtesy the artist. Photograph: Peter Mallet.

 

About the artist

Fernando Casasempere

Fernando Casasempere exhibited in The Precious Clay, Museum of Royal Worcester, 2019.

Image: Fernando Casasempere, Stack 2, 2015. Porcelain and stoneware. Courtesy the artist and Parafin, London.