Intrecci
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This project is inspired by a general theme, not directly related to ceramics, meaning that it’s part of a series of models, some theoretical and some real, in which flowers intertwine with vases, establishing new relationships with them.
I also tackled such a theme with a focus on glass, creating small vertical gardens, similar to fences or espaliers, where the vegetable part (bamboo canes or vine trellises) is like the weft and the glass entwines it like a warp, creating a kind of hybrid and semi-transparent fabric.
I focused on these operations in order to integrate the various components comprising the reality that surrounds us, where things and the environment are different elements, the subject and the object are separate, and the flowers and vases do not mingle. It would be interesting, if possible, to create an intermediate fabric, starting from yarns that correspond to separate identities, but that can also be entwined without losing their individuality, creating, overall, a new and more expressive material.
In other words: weaving the world and its diversities, including ceramics, to create a new cognitive fabric.
Andrea Branzi
Andrea Branzi, Intrecci. “Attese Edizioni Handmade in Albisola”, Collezione Permanente del Design Italiano, La Triennale, Milan Design Week 2007
Intrecci by Andrea Branzi was prototyped in Albisola (Italy) in 2006 on occasion of the 3rd Biennial of Ceramics in Contemporary Art and was also presented at the exhibition “Handmade in Albisola”, La Triennale, Milan Design Week 2007.
Picassi in cocci
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Andrea Branzi, Picassi in cocci. “Objecten en territoria- Andrea Branzi”, MUHKA (Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen), Antwerp, 2012
Andrea Branzi, Picassi in cocci. “Independent Design Secession”, Triennale Design Museum, Milan, 2011. Foto Tom Vac
Andrea Branzi, Picassi in cocci. “Changer le monde avec un vase à fleurs”, Mudac, Lausanne, 2011
Andrea Branzi, Picassi in cocci. “Cambiare il mondo con un vaso di fiori”, Pierluigi and Natalina Remotti Foundation-City of Camogli, 2010-2011
Andrea Branzi, Picassi in cocci. “Cambiar el mundo con un vaso de flores”, Italian Cultural Institute, Madrid, 2010
Picassi in cocci by Andrea Branzi were prototyped in Albisola (Italy) during the travelling exhibition “Changing the world with a vase of flowers”, MUDAC-Museum of Design and Contemporary Applied Arts, Lausanne, 2011; Pierluigi and Natalina Remotti Foundation-City of Camogli, 2010-2011; Italian Cultural Institute of Madrid-Italian Embassy in Spain, 2010.
The Picassi in cocci were also presented at the following exhibitions: “The Ceramics of Andrea Branzi”, Triennale Design Museum, Milan; “Objecten en territoria”, MUHKA (Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen), Antwerpen, 2012; “Independent Design Secession”, La Triennale, Milan Design Week 2011.
Roseti
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The “Roseti” collection features traces of grasses and twigs – memories of meadows and bushes left behind in the green glaze.
My work often incorporates element from nature, a traditional theme in many vases around the world. But I interpret nature as A reality that has always been shunned by “modernity”.
Modern design has its roots in machine-inspired geometric forms. Throughout its self-referential development, it has ignored the world around, a vast world made of leaves, twigs, flowers and grass- a world where modernity is in fact absent.
These traces of vegetation are an attempt to reach out from the closed world of design to a greater reality.
Andrea Branzi
The collection of vases Roseti by Andrea Branzi was made in Albisola (Italy) in 2011 for The Gallery in Brussels. Photo: Barbara Lettany.
Andrea Branzi, Ceramics and the World
