Sylvain Rieu-Piquet SLL 22 Vessel 4

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Unique
2022
Earthenware, mixed media

Each piece of the Short Lived Love collection is a hybrid, a sort of sculpted creature made from the organic and baroque imagination of Sylvain Rieu-Piquet.

The Egyptian paste that covers the inside of the SLL Vessel 4 was widely used in antiquity. It can be distinguished by the unique blue tint that only appears during the baking of the vase. However, it represents a great challenge as it has the tendency to crack or even explode, which makes it very hard to master.

This vase is the most telluric of this collection: the outside, looking much like fine marble, meets with an accidental interior, much like a crater.

Artist Biography

Sylvain Rieu-Piquet is a Paris-based designer whose work encapsulates the essence of natural elements, with mineral, vegetal, aquatic and animal worlds colliding to produce hybrid, intense and brooding works of art. With their soft, liquid curves and free, sensual vision of nature, Rieu-Piquet's collections of jewellery and ceramics invite viewers into an intimate dialogue with nature, emotion and the human body.