Every so often everyone has one of “those” days – today was one of them for me and as a treat to me I’m salvaging it with an end of day post of beautiful porcelain work by Valeria Nascimento who self-describes her work as, “about repetitive sequencing with separate elements to form a cohesive sculptural group.”
Valeria maintains a beautiful website that has amazing images of her large scale installations.
She says she uses porcelain for its malleability and smoothness – I love that she uses it in both white and black. I don’t think the black is glazed but I’m honestly not sure how she gets the fabulous matte look.
Nascimento is from Brazil originally and, interestingly, she has an architecture degree. From her bio it seems like she focused on “urban landscapes” – I can see some of that influence in her circular works. They could be manicured garden plans.
These look so delicate – they beg the question, how are they installed on the wall and how big are they?
I absolutely love the above work – it reminds me of so many fabulous artists I’ve chronicled here including Amy Genser who creates similar looks but out of rolled paper and even Pia who I wrote about earlier this week with her masking tape bee hive!
I love this fading moon type of look, made out of patiently crafted concentric circles.
Grass Table is the above work – these are little “tabs” of porcelain lifted and set in motion by Valeria’s hand.
So beautiful – the squares within the piece look like the squares you get when you gold leaf something. Sections that make up a whole look in the work.
I can’t even imagine how she made this.
Close up. I love the quality of her photographs on her site as well. They’re so well lit!
Looks pretty urchin-y to me 
Awesome.
These are exceptionally urchin-y. I love them.
Tags: 3D, ceramic, installation, porcelain, pottery, repetitive, wall art