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The last year's creative adventure of the ceramicist and designer Roman Šedina, who mainly gained fame in recent years by his collection of Czech Cubism-inspired porcelain accessories, Limited, is characteristic of the return to the tradition of using a potter's wheel, the heritage of Japanese master potters and precise manual work.

However, Šedina's fascination with the essential basis of ceramic work the potter's wheel - steered him towards a new working method. His continually developed series of porcelain vases, entitled KA, was first presented at the festival "The Fragile Mikulov" in May 2016. It was purely the meditative manual process and the inward relation of a designer and craftsman in a single person to his material which became objectified in a series of archetypal sculptural vases of minimalist proportions. Various diameters, various heights and various colors – all that is interlinked by a unique method of spraying layers of porcelain onto the vases' surface, employing various density and pressure in the jets. In this way, a clay vase is slowly covered by the porcelain spray, creating a rough relief layer, which after firing results in a delicately colorist and haptic structure that records the process of production. In the course of a single year, Šedina created dozens of similar vases of various sizes and colors, some being for example inspired by the color scale of the Amsterdam Rijksmuseum and Delft porcelain. He then displayed his processual approach to design in all its beauty as part of the presentation "Mobile Ceramic Studio" at Desingblok 2016.

Adam Štěch