Baroque Vase, By Béatriz Trepat, 2000

Very beautiful unique piece of this great ceramic artist. "Twenty years ago, Beatriz Trepat arrived at Dante Alberro's studio to train in ceramics. She then graduated from the School of Fine Arts in the city of Rosario (Argentina). She transposed the poetry of drawing to sculpture and following the principle of tracing, she created, like DNA or a fossil, a trace of the living.Beatriz Trepat therefore first embarked on the faithful reproduction of small simulacra of creatures, by fashioning species, families, colonies and reefs from a few specimens proliferating on the surface of a supposedly everyday object: here, a baroque vase was assailed by the invasion of a fauna of mythological corpses; there again, it is a funerary urn that bloomed, like a desert after the rain. The key was the rose: it is, quite simply, from a tiny rose, found and transformed by the magic of clay in proto-animal replicated to infinity, that this artist had the intuition of the helical morphology of the living." B.Vignoli - Center for Contemporary Ceramics La Borne