Johannes Nagel for Officine Saffi

 2018 Deliberately questioning the widely accepted status of pottery as a functional, domestic and decorative craft, Nagel turns to clay as the privileged arena for his formal and conceptual explorations, rehearsing, through an eclectic array of vessels, the timeless debate of form vs. function, control vs. spontaneity, rigour vs. improvisation.
Untitled results from a process called sand-casting: the artist creates caves from
sand monoliths by digging freehand in a process that recalls archaeology. In these empty spaces, he pours fine porcelain, which is imprinted with sand and the traces of the manual work. Once the residual sand has been extracted, the artwork comes out of its sarcophagus to be glazed and fired. The artwork surface is not perfect; it shows the working process. The object looks like it's not finished. The sculpture, instead, is perfect.
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