"Above all, they are beautiful and magnificent. The clear, extravagant and luxurious beauty is a feast for the eyes. The daily grind grows pale for a few moments, and just looking at them peacefully from all sides wants you to become more preciseful about them.
Next to aesthetics, Mindermann pays tribute to every one conceivable aspect of ceramics. In case you disassemble a vessel into all it's parts, you will see how much Mindermann treats every aspect with utmost care and mastery. The shape, glaze, colour, interior, surface, the upper edge and the bottom footing – all these elements are experienced by Martin Mindermann in accurate observation and intensive treatment. The principle simple shapes of bulbes, spherical globes or lenses in all their different manifestations have one in common...they offer generous space for the interplay of coloured glazes and the Craquelé-structures of the skin. Crease and deeper tracks in the surface structure are composed like a painting. The transitions to the inside of Mindermann's vessels are always in flow – throughout there is no way of findings any sharp edges or blunt endings – in fact the offer a spacious view of the colours of the inside. Exactly here something completely special happens, when Mindermann creates copper or golden rooms. The light is captures and the vessel shines with beaming brilliance from inside. Theoretically it would be possible to fill up the vessels in some ways.....however, who would like to deprive himself of that wonderful view?“Above all, they are beautiful and magnificent. The clear, extravagant and luxurious beauty is a feast for the eyes. The daily grind grows pale for a few moments, and just looking at them peacefully from all sides wants you to become more preciseful about them.
Next to aesthetics, Mindermann pays tribute to every one conceivable aspect of ceramics. In case you disassemble a vessel into all it's parts, you will see how much Mindermann treats every aspect with utmost care and mastery. The shape, glaze, colour, interior, surface, the upper edge and the bottom footing – all these elements are experienced by Martin Mindermann in accurate observation and intensive treatment. The principle simple shapes of bulbes, spherical globes or lenses in all their different manifestations have one in common...they offer generous space for the interplay of coloured glazes and the Craquelé-structures of the skin. Crease and deeper tracks in the surface structure are composed like a painting. The transitions to the inside of Mindermann's vessels are always in flow – throughout there is no way of findings any sharp edges or blunt endings – in fact the offer a spacious view of the colours of the inside. Exactly here something completely special happens, when Mindermann creates copper or golden rooms. The light is captures and the vessel shines with beaming brilliance from inside. Theoretically it would be possible to fill up the vessels in some ways.....however, who would like to deprive himself of that wonderful view?"
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