Sněhová váza

Author: Maxim Velčovský
Date: 2012
Material: porcelain

The idea behind the series of three vas­es was to cap­ture the imprints of snow in the course of sev­er­al years (2010 – 12). The “lost snow” tech­nique involves a man­u­al­ly cre­at­ed snow pro­to­type cast in plaster-of-Paris.

The project is accom­pa­nied by an effort at a local expres­sion when a prod­uct made of an ordi­nary mate­r­i­al is made dif­fer­ent by a unique solu­tion in the con­text of a par­tic­u­lar time and place.

Maxim Velčovský: Sněhová váza
Maxim Velčovský: Sněhová váza

Among oth­er things, it also reflects the absurd moment of the uproot­ing of a brand from its tra­di­tion­al place of pro­duc­tion, a phe­nom­e­non brought about by glob­al­iza­tion. Another kind of exper­i­ment with form and tech­nol­o­gy. A nat­ur­al prin­ci­ple when the mate­r­i­al lit­er­al­ly falls from the sky blends with a per­son­al emo­tion­al expe­ri­ence until the moment of the imprints of human hands. It works with an intu­itive amor­phous pre/shape in a noble mate­r­i­al that is able to cap­ture even the struc­ture of snow.

Made for Křehký brand.