3-D-FLIESENKOLLEKTION, 2015

FLIESENKOLLEKTION, ORNAMENTALE FORM UND FUGE ‚KISSEN‘      2014
Reinzeichnung und Montage, 30 x 21 cm

 

Farbpalette

 

 

Fliesenbild mit Fuge im Mittelton

 

Setting mit schwarzer Fliese

 

Setting mit weißer Fliese

 

FLIESENKOLLEKTION, ORNAMENTALE FORM UND FUGE ‚MADELEINE‘ Entwurf      2014
Reinzeichnung und Montage, 30 x 21 cm

 

Farbpalette

 

Fliesenbilder mit verschiedenen Fliesen- und Fugenfarben, längs oder quer verlegt

 

 

 

 

 

 

3D-FLIESENKOLLEKTION, 2015

Die leicht plastisch gewölbten Fliesen aus schamotthaltiger Keramik sind aus meinen Formexperimenten entstanden. Durch die 3. Dimension vermitteln sie Materialität, Authentizität und ein stärkeres Bewusstsein für das eigene Tun.

 

RES_TILE

CONTEST FOR NEW AESTHETIC BOUNDARIES IN THE PRODUCTION OF CERAMIC SLABS

ORNAMENTAL SHAPES AND INTERSPACES

RES_TILE – the amazingly obvious title means:

  1. Res and tile

Res – from the Latin, means the theme, the project: tile

But

  1. restile = restyle – the designing – based on previously existing – once more, a new interpretation.

Porcelain stoneware has the best values ​​on resistance such as frost, impact, abrasion, to chemicals, etc. The precision of the form, the sides, the rectangularity, the flatness of the surface is excellent.

With newest production methods each surface structure and optic appearance is possible, even natural materials such as stones, woods, fabrics, cork, leather etc. can – even in natural diversity – be appropriated and re_produced.

And Porcelain stoneware is even natural and sustainable.

“When the highest expectations are being surpassed, then the time has come for a new level.” Sergei Tchoban

Naturalness, vividness, vitality, originality and quaintness are the qualities that are required.

How could it be reached?

There are the asymmetries, irregularities, failings and missteps which make something adorable. High civilizations have known this and have transformed it in ornaments.

As an artist I cultivate the moment of inspiration in the playfully handling of the material. For the Res_tile I used clay in the form of prepared slabs, a quite similar material as porcelain stoneware.

Out of these experimental results, I have selected two examples:

  1. CUSCINO

with a pillow you feel at home

 See Power Point presentation, pages 2 – 7

a square format (dimensions e.g. of 5 x 5, 10 x 10, 15 x 15, 30 x 30 cm etc.)

  1. MADELEINE

if you perceive it, your memories come back (after Marcel Proust)

See Power Point presentation, pages 9 – 15

A rectangle format – width to length 1 : 2 (dimensions e.g.: 3,75 x 7,5 /

7,5 x 15 / 15 x 30 / 30 x 45 cm etc.)

Both forms I first created and developed in a natural and archaic handling.

They are characterised by rounded angles and edges and a plastic 3 dimensional surface with a special texture.

To use them for the industrial production I tested and developed the shape and colours in a hybrid digital mode. For the shape I traced back this natural handcraft in their geometrical basics.

The fascinating results are ornamental forms of tiles and ornamental shaped interspaces.

And to intensify the lively impression the whole surface is rounded with a big radius.

In a next step the sizes have to be thought about and the exact modulating of the shape in matching with the sizes. For large formats perhaps it is more rational to emboss the relief pattern and have also the smaller single formats.

Another possibility is the combination with an existing Mirage collection, for example with “CEMENTI” in material and colours, so that you can combine the rectangular with the ornamental, and the large with the small.

On colours anything more is possible – some proposals are attached.