Details
Wild kaolinitic clay from near Grenoble, wood ash
Turned at the wheel
Fired in oxidation at 1250°C
⌀ 25 cm, h 25 cm
 
The clay for this vase was foraged from a pool of secondary kaolin near Grenoble, gathered at the base of a large kaolin wall. The body was finely processed, corrected with around 3% bentonite for better plasticity, and thrown, to be later covered by the same wild clay, but unprocessed and coarser. 
The vessel was fired in an electric kiln.
 
 
About Unurgent Argilla
Nina Salsotto Cassina is an Italian ceramicist. In 2019 she founded Unurgent Argilla, focusing on material research of non-industrial wild materials. Unurgent Argilla is a vocabulary of wild materials, a study of what’s around us, repeated on spherical vessels, which she uses as a canvas to convey a spatial narrative. The final vases function as both signposts and autobiographical archival memories. 
 
She is currently focusing her research on foraging high fire clays from Italy and France, mainly in the Alps.
 
 
 
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Returns
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