Ornament is About Time, 2019 Baroque inspired Tureen and Tray

Ornament is about time

...and it’s back in fashion: On textile and wallpaper, buildings and muffins.  

Following the wave of modernism decoration has been rejected and recovered. In the Baroque period it seems as if it was never in question: Angels and Pineapples, Devils and Dolphins were indispensable on all sorts of visual expressions – as in table settings serving the role of appetizer in a broad sense, teasing eyes and palates, arousing fantasies of exotic cultures and creatures, shamelessly overshining the meal itself.

Tureen and Tray inspired by the enchantment of the closed forms of the Baroque - containing secret desires...

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MATERIALS: Mixed Media Ceramics; Porcelain, Islandic lambskin, wood

MEASUREMENTS (l/w/h): 75x70x45 cm

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Photo by Esben Shakenda Kaldahl/ Frank Cerri

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‍‍Cooperation Project: Royal Danish Academy / Kunsthochschule Weissensee-Berlin
Exhibited at Schloss Pillnitz, Dresden; Table Talks, 2019. Group Exhibition

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