Details
Wild clay from Lago d’Orta
Thrown at the wheel
Fired in oxidation at 1220°C
⌀ 26 cm, h 25 cm
 
The clay for this vase was foraged from a big deposit of clay south of Lago d’Orta, where different types of clays and kaolin have been mined for centuries. 
This clay is mottled, heavily grogged and highly plastic. For this vase, it was left completely unprocessed to retain also the biggest particles of grog and let them rip, dent and write on the surface of the vessel at the wheel. In the peak of imperfection it becomes more visible both the gesture of throwing but also the character of each clay. 
The vessel was later 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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