Porcelain
Cabinet
I was always interested in the history
of ceramics. The theme of this project comes from historical porcelain
cabinets – a sublime expression of Europe’s fascination with porcelain in the
Baroque era. They are characterized by the abundance of decoration,
but at the same time by unity of various elements and their special harmony.
Porcelain cabinets have paradoxically much in common with contemporary
installation art – here ceramic objects, shelves, wall decorations, sculptures
and reliefs occupy the entire space and the viewer experience
it as a whole. This
somewhat absurd, but also logical juxtaposition is interesting to me and it
offers various individual interpretations. My goal is to find my personal
strategy to make a porcelain cabinet, while studying Baroque aesthetics and the
use of porcelain during that time. Porcelain objects (vessels, sculptural
elements) on the shelves; plates, reliefs on the walls. Special structure of
the porcelain cabinet should be clearly felt, while interpreting in my own way
the Baroque abundance of decoration, wavy and winding ornamentation and the abuse of gold.
I want to fit in Baroque abundance and splendour with
modern simplicity and my own aesthetic position.