Fernando Casasempere, Chile

Red Folded Organic Form

2020

Stoneware, minerals

490 × 710 × 730 mm

A creative response to Red Folded Organic Form by Olivia Kan-Sperling

And lo and behold, a little man came pouring out from the far-most parlour room door. He was made of a heavy but molten material—one of the new elements, I thought. He could move swiftly, but only towards True North. (Magnetism was all the rage then.) His small, shiny boots never fully left the carpet; he seemed to walk more in the way of a rolling wave, by distributing his mass from point to point, like a soldier-shaped slug or an hourglass.

Chilean-born craftsman and artist Fernando Casasempere is based in London where he works to redefine the possibilities of clay, ceramics, and industrial matter through the medium of contemporary sculpture. His pieces can be seen in London’s Victoria & Albert Museum, Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts, the Harvard Museum in Cambridge, as well as museums in Rotterdam, Osaka, and Paris.