Unfolding Darkness Decorative Stoneware Everyday Sculpture Ii by Giulia Cosenza

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Unfolding darkness decorative stoneware everyday sculpture ii by giulia cosenza unique piece. Dimensions: d 13 x w 13 x h … Read more Unfolding darkness decorative stoneware everyday sculpture ii by giulia cosenza unique piece. Dimensions: d 13 x w 13 x h 36 cm. Materials: stoneware dark brown clay, with a smooth texture. Each sculpture is one of a kind and entirely handmade. All items are made with care and described as accurately as possible, nonetheless, small imperfections derived from the handmade nature of the artwork may occur. Dimensions are approximate. All items are intended as artworks, suitable for decorative use only. Please contact us. Unfolding darkness is a special edition of everyday sculptures made from dark brown clay with different textures, from extra smooth to extra rough. If everyday sculptures usually explores shapes and the way those interact with light, in this case, it is about looking at the shapes as materialised shadows, items that sculpt and unfold darkness as raw and refined matter. Giulia cosenza is a designer and ceramicist based in rotterdam, the netherlands. Giulia is originally trained as an interior designer and had the opportunity to be taught during her university years in milan, by italian masters of design such as andrea branzi and michele de lucchi. After moving to the netherlands, she worked for the renowned design office droog design, deepening her interest in conceptual design. ​ ​alongside her work as a designer, since 2015, she has been dedicating herself to a more tactile, gestural, and unstable kind of practice, the art of ceramics. Her ceramic work ranges from wheel-thrown pottery to hand-built pieces and draws inspiration from the familiar, the functional, and the domestic, while challenging it all with hybrid pieces which can be situated between functional and symbolic, the material and the metaphorical. ​​ See less