Walk the Line / 131

At the Galleria Rossana Orlandi, Luca Nichetto and Leira Moiseeva presented two collections in porcelain and ceramic that highlight rituals of conviviality and use handcrafted production processes.

An exhibition entitled “Walk the line” conceived by a Venetian and a New-York-based Russian designer describes the origins of the Sucabaruca coffee set and Cheburashka tableware, two collections produced by different companies in different parts of the world, far apart both geographically and culturally but sharing an artisan approach to production in porcelain and ceramic respectively.

The title chosen for the exhibition refers to the fact that the skill necessary for producing these objects emerges from the geometric patterns obtained by hand-drawing a series of lines on each piece but also indicates the need to move along the confines, between skills of different cultures, between those of designers and artisans.

Both projects were born out of the designers’ desire to produce objects that helped to nurture rituals of sharing. The Sucabaruca coffee set in ceramic and wood, designed for the Mjölk gallery by John Baker and Juli Daousti in Toronto, combines the modern ritual of filtered coffee that is shared by various countries including North America and Scandinavia with the renowned Italian tradition in which this drink has become a cult consolidated over the course of centuries.

The Cheburashka collection of tableware – a name that in ancient Russian refers to the floats that keep up fishermen’s nets – aims to represent the same qualities of sharing of food using a very special material: black ceramic that uses an ancient firing process that dates back to the third century B.C, produced in the town of Suzdal in Russia by Vadim Dymov and Evgenia Zelenskaya, founders of the company Dymov Ceramics. The method requires many different stages, at the end the products are placed in special sealed kilns filled with embers of wood and sawdust, a process that gives the products their distinctive black colour.

Luca Nichetto e Lena Moiseeva, Walk the Line, Spazio Rossana Orlandi

The Cheburashka set, made up of a large container will wide handles and a lid that when turned upside down becomes a plate for resting the serving spoon on; is completed by two bowls the same size. Nichetto and Moiseeva worked on the image and communication, helping to activate a distribution network that takes these special products also beyond the confines of Russia. It is a project that marks the beginning of a larger enterprise that will be developed over the coming years and that aims to connect different cultures through a careful selection of products designed by different designers and made by Dymov Ceramics.

8–13 April
Luca Nichetto
Lena Moiseeva
Walk the Line
Spazio Rossana Orlandi
Via Matteo Bandello 14/16, Milano

Walk the Line / 131

At the Galleria Rossana Orlandi, Luca Nichetto and Leira Moiseeva presented two collections in porcelain and ceramic that highlight rituals of conviviality and use handcrafted production processes.

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