Elena Arosio
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. It characterizes every step of Elena Arosio's work. Her vessels and objects find their shape at the potter's wheel, are cut out to shine as luminous bodies or are polished and receive their very special surface as a vessel in a smoke fire.
Elena Arosio's main areas of work well explained:
Engobe refers to a mixture of finely slurried clay liquefied with water, which is applied to raw or also bisqued ceramic workpieces for decoration.
Smoke firing is a method of burning ceramics in open fires that has been in use since early times. People from different cultures and regions of the world used it to harden their ceramics and still do so today.
It refers to firing in a closed container (capsule) of refractory material in which the ceramics are placed.
Designation for a ceramic material made of feldspar, kaolin and quartz, with dense, light-coloured to white shards (term for a fired ceramic mass)
Designation for ceramics which, with or without glaze after the firing process above 1200° C, has a hard, solid and dense body (term for a fired ceramic mass).
In the context of the „Internationalen Keramiktage Oldenburg“ , the term "unique vessel" is associated with special, artistic vessels.
In the context of the „Internationalen Keramiktage Oldenburg“ , the term "sculpture/object" refers to ceramics that are not subject to any function.