Bareino - Recycled Stoneware Vase - Magdalena Clay
€160.00

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Details

 

Material: The body of the piece is recycled stoneware, dipped in Magdalena clay.

Approximate Dimensions:
Wide: 15 cm
Height: 16 cm
Opening diameter: 4.5 cm

 

Unique: This means that by purchasing this Bareino you will get exactly the one photographed.

 

Please take into consideration that this item is handmade. Therefore, dimensions & colors may slightly vary from item to item. There is also a chance that the item you receive is not the exact same as the one photographed (unless otherwise stated), so if the glaze has spots or crystals, their positioning will be different from item to item. This makes each and every one of my objects completely unique :)

 

 

Story

What’s the differences between Zebrino & Bareino? – Zebrinos have stripes and Bareinos do not :) But they both have the same quirky energy!

I love this bareino particularly because I find it quite funny the shape contrast of the big ufo-shaped body with the tiny little handles.

One of my Zebrino Vases was exhibited on September 2023 during the Paris Design Week at a gallery organized by 1000vases. (*fangirling*). This is the famous Zebrino / the first & smaller version.

I really put so much effort into some postcards written in 3rd person to feel important when I give people the postcards. I worked so hard on the text, so that’s the text you’re getting here.

 

“A staging of how restrictions can enhance creativity. The artist creates vase-like sculptures that play with two separate shapes – a cylinder and a disc-orb – transforming them into various possibilities. By using porcelain as a medium, it is possible to cut the shapes into multiple pieces and place them in a way that creates something new every time. These sculptures are then hand-painted with sharp-edged lines to enhance the contrast of the natural white porcelain. The artist saw comparability to a zebra with its black and white lines and a dinosaur with their multiple handles added in different parts of the sculpture’s body. These animalistic resemblances came to unite the name for this series: Zebrino.”

The material:

This piece is dipped in a slip made from wild clay I foraged along the banks of the Magdalena River, near Barranquilla, the city where I grew up in Colombia. The Magdalena is one of South America’s great rivers, and its sediment carries millennia of geological memory. When fired, this clay transforms into something unexpected: a surface that is simultaneously matte and metallic, catching light in a way that feels more mineral than ceramic.

Rather than a conventional glaze, the Colombian clay acts as both decoration and story, a thin skin of my origins laid over the body of my daily studio practice.

The form itself is built from reclaimed stoneware, a blend of studio scraps and recycled clay that carries the history of my making practice within it. No two batches are ever quite the same, giving each piece a quietly individual character from the start.

Two geographies in one object: the river of my childhood and the clay scraps of my life in Vienna.

Each piece is a collaboration between the earth and my craft: wild, authentic, and utterly unique.

If you want to read more about the Magdalena River foraging experience, you can read my blog post here.

 

 

Care

 

  • It is recommended to wash this piece by hand with dish soap and warm water.
  • This item is watertight.

 

 

Disclaimer: Use for decoration purposes.