{"id":872,"date":"2015-11-03T09:00:47","date_gmt":"2015-11-03T07:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artificialis.eu\/?p=872"},"modified":"2018-04-19T18:57:32","modified_gmt":"2018-04-19T16:57:32","slug":"artwork-of-the-month-november-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artificialis.eu\/?p=872","title":{"rendered":"Artwork of the month \/ November 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00ab Zeste de mer \u00bb (Zest of the sea)<\/strong><\/em>
\nMarie Cagnasso<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

2010\"Marie<\/a>
\n100 cm x 100 cm x 20 cm
\nPorcelain, glazed and unglazed, lacquered metal plate<\/p>\n

\u201cZeste de mer\u201d is one of Marie\u2019s creations that is part of her sculptures of landscapes, based on the idea \u201cof conservation of something valuable that can disappear\u201d. In fact the surface of the sea is on one hand mostly eternal, but in the same time absolutely volatile.<\/p>\n

Marie captures the impression of a relatively calm sea, which reflects the sunrays so that it is meant to be only the skin of something else. This \u201cZest of the sea\u201d is represented by curved elements of white porcelain. Even a moment when the sunrays are touching the water surface is conserved: the concave curved elements are unglazed and thereby matt, but the most of the convex parts are brilliant gazed, so that there appear three diagonal bright lines. The curved elements seem to be frozen waves lying on a deep black ground. However, these waves allow a glance to the depth of the sea, because they are not a closed cover. Moreover the surface is, like our skin, permeable. In contrast the black impenetrable ground might stand for the deepness of the ocean, when we see him from above.<\/p>\n

The materials are not only chosen by necessity, but as well for their symbolic meaning: the firm lacquered metal stands for the eternal sea, however the impression of surface is fragile like the porcelain. Nevertheless, the porcelain is fixed on the ground, like the waves are inseparably joined to the sea water. As mostly in her works, Marie reduced her colour range only to black and white. It\u2019s the biggest existing contrast that permits to see the essential of the perfect forms. No colours are misleading the contemplation.<\/p>\n

Marie\u2019s approach is reduced in the choice of elements and colours. It might be seen as minimalist. However the execution is so fine that one can see not only the fragility of the porcelain, but as well the impermanence of this moment-like natural phenomenon.<\/p>\n

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Marie Cagnasso<\/strong><\/p>\n

Born 1965 in Saint-Laurent-du-Var, France, Marie lives and works in Vence, France.
\nAfter years in a profession alien to art, and three years living in London, she followed finally her vocation to be an artist.<\/p>\n

From 2006 to 2007 she frequented the Ecole des Beaux-arts (School of Fine Arts) of Vallauris \u2013 Golfe-Juan, France, and got the diploma \u201cArts du Feu\u201d (arts of fire). Subsequently she was selected for the one year specialised class \u201cJeune Createur\u201d (Young Creator) also in Vallauris. 2009 Marie was chosen in the international contest for porcelain creation of Limoges, France (Concours international de cr\u00e9ation en porcelain) to realise her submitted project in a residency in this traditional porcelain town. The resulting artwork was \u201cZeste de mer\u201d, which was 2010 first presented in the \u201cGalerie des Hospices\u201d in Limoges. Another residency in H\u00f3dmez\u0151v\u00e1s\u00e1rhely, Hungary followed 2012.<\/p>\n

In 2013 Marie was selected for the exhibitions \u201cJeune Plasticiens\u201d (Young sculptors) in Saint Rapha\u00ebl and the \u201cSmall Art Object\u201d in Vallauris, where she was one of ten Select Award winners. For her participation at the \u201cTerra Rossa\u201d, Maison de la C\u00e9ramique (House of Ceramics) in Salernes, France, the jury acknowledged her work in the section \u201cAvant-garde\/technicit\u00e9\u201d (Avant-garde\/technicality). Furthermore, she participated in many group exhibitions at the C\u00f4te d\u2019Azur, but as well in Paris and Budapest (Hungary). In 2013 she had her first solo exhibition in the \u00ab Galerie Bleue \u00bb, Vence.<\/p>\n

Marie\u2019s first great subject, are the natural landscapes. Here she transforms her impressions of nature – often seen from a bird\u2019s eye view – into ceramics, like our example \u201cZest of the sea\u201d. Since 2011 her researches and concerns guided her to the internal landscapes. The starting point is the brain as \u201cmysterious landscape\u201d and \u201cfascinating organ\u201d, but the resulting artworks are as well a reflexion about the thought and the \u201ccomplexity of life\u201d. Like in the natural landscapes the colours black and white are dominant. But in the internal landscapes Marie introduces more often other materials like glass and paper. They seem to be more present in the resulting artworks; they are less subordinated to the ceramics than in the other series.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.mariecagnasso.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00ab Zeste de mer \u00bb (Zest of the sea) Marie Cagnasso 2010 100 cm x 100 cm x 20 cm Porcelain, glazed and unglazed, lacquered metal plate \u201cZeste de mer\u201d is one of Marie\u2019s creations that is part of her sculptures of landscapes, based on the idea \u201cof conservation of something valuable that can disappear\u201d…. (read more<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":874,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[225,226,222,60,224,223],"class_list":["post-872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artwork-of-the-month","tag-ceramics","tag-limoges","tag-marie-cagnasso","tag-vallauris","tag-zest-of-the-sea","tag-zeste-de-mer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artificialis.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artificialis.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artificialis.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artificialis.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artificialis.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artificialis.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artificialis.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artificialis.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artificialis.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artificialis.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}