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Aufgetischt




Aufgetischt
15 Mar 2012 - 15 Apr 2012

Pia Pasalk, porcelain-jewellery-accessories

From March 15th until April 14th the gallery Werft 11 shows porcelain, jewellery and an exclusive handbag collection of the Cologne designer Pia Pasalk.

In her objects, and sometimes completely to the surprise of the contemplator, Pia Pasalk very naturally and elegantly crosses the frontiers between jewellery, product and fashion. The quotidian is elevated to the decisive stylistic element and assumed blemishes create the focus of design.

Porcelain, also called "the white gold" has always been fascinating due to its tension between fragility and the ordinary.

PERFECT IMPERFECT is a collection, inspired by the wabi-sabi philosophy of Japan, the beauty of the incomplete and the unconventional.

Any blemishes or rough patches that appear during the manufacturing process are not eliminated but preserved in the design of the collection; casting seams turn into large flat handles. Deliberately caused dents are easy to hold or to grasp. The classical blue onion pattern, having decorated tables for generations, is now extremely enlarged and becomes a fragmental decorating element.

PORCELLAIN BROOCHES are an ironic allusion to the world of collectors’ cups.

The BAG COLLECTION has ist seeds in the HAFENTASCHEN, a project of the galery Werft 11, for which Pia Pasalk designed a "Docker handbag". These handbags take their inspiration from the modernization of old harbours, as it has unfolded in many cities. Old storehouses now serve as modern offices or apartment houses. Instead of sacks "today’s docker workers" carry briefcases and handbags. Used flower sacks with many different imprints, often with manually darned wholes, encase the precious white leather bags.

The porcelain handle and the porcelain pieces with fragments of the blue onion pattern going with the zipper are a homage to the coffee importers. The dockerbag uses vintage flower sacks making each bag unique.

Pia Pasalk was born in 1977 in Cologne. She lives and works in Cologne.

Opening

Thursday 15 March 2012 at 18:00 The Designer is present

Press kit
press.aufgetischt.zip


Pia Pasalk