Porcelain
With delicate transparency.
Term for a ceramic material made of feldspar, kaolin and quartz, with a dense, light-coloured to white body (term for a fired ceramic mass).
Porcelain shines through transparently with thin walls and can be fired at temperatures up to 1480°, depending on the type of mass and the intended function.
Bone porcelain represents a particularly noble variant of this material. It is characterised by a brilliant white, high translucency and strength.
If you find porcelain interesting, you should take a look at these ceramists:
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Rustically shaped wall tiles and panels in red and black stoneware clay with rough, unshaped edges and simple vessel shapes.
Mi Sook Hwang has to be patient: both the shape and surface design of her jars and pots speak for meticulous perfectionism.
Martin McWilliam has placed the artistic exploration and interpretation of two archaic everyday objects - bowl and jug - at the centre of his work.
Clear shapes with lively surfaces and a sensual-haptic pleasure: Sybille Abel-Kremer's bowls, mugs, vases and jars are wonderful to "touch" with the hands.
Ceramic designer Olga Simonova uses the properties of Limoges porcelain - pure white and very resistant - to create a unique and unique design.
The inner surfaces of the sculptural vessels Sebastian Scheid calls "vases and boxes" are flat and smooth, their surfaces, roughly drawn and structured, occasionally reminiscent of hewn stone.
"I investigate mechanisms of collectivization." Lena Biesalski's ceramic works can be described as artistic social research.
Everything that crawls and flies in the complex insect world can serve Ross de Wayne Campell as a model for his work, ...
Mie Mølgaard stands for a new generation of Danish design, which blows from the Baltic Sea island Bornholm to Germany:
Hundreds of individual parts determine Beate Pfefferkorn's everyday life: formed by hand from porcelain - rolled, pressed, stamped, cast -...
The search for the special detail is one thing, finding the right shape and the desire to give each piece harmony and elegance is another.
The starting point for Herden's thin-walled, fully functional vases are cast porcelain plates.
A master of her craft: Karin Bablok sets the thin-walled, pure white porcelain form in an equal dialogue with the black brush drawing.
Margot Thyssen produces her hand-flattering, mostly minimally asymmetrical unique tableware from up to 6 differently coloured layers of porcelain.
"Ceramic florist" is the appropriate term for Nausika Raes. Ferns, flowers, mushrooms and many other treasures from the garden and forest gather in her studio.
By hand she builds fragile-looking, pure white and translucent vessels. In the process, the manual processing gives the tall vases and wide bowls...
Can you drink out of them? The extravagant cups of the Czech-Japanese artist couple are highly functional -
Folded, assembled, cut? The architectural porcelain objects by Atsushi Kitahara create the illusion of fragile paper artworks.
Poetic narratives on fine porcelain - the ceramist Jule Grade conjures up filigree text-picture combinations on the velvety outer skin of her tableware in her workshop at Lake Glindow.
Fine porcelain meets coarse wood: many of Sonja Top's utility ceramics feature the grain of an old tree bark.
Enchanting, what blossoms on the surface from a mixture of self-mixed clays, oxides and glazes in connection with the firing:
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