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Fernando Casasempre working on Under the Forest

Fernando Casasempere - in CRAFTS Magazine

23 April 2007

'Up Front', CRAFTS, May/June 2007 issue, p 12

'I try to work with the landscape and melt into it rather than conquer it', says Chilean ceramist Fernando Casasempere whose new giant clay installation commissioned for the Jerwood Sculpture Park is unveiled in May. The piece, called Under the Forest, consists of five organic-shaped cylinders, made out of clay mixed with recylced materials from teh Chilean petro-chemical and mining industries and each over three metres high, designed to echo the trunks of the surrounding trees. 'I wanted the trunks to mix in with the forest', he says, 'and so in the summer they take on the natural branches of the surrounding trees an in the winter they echo their naked form'.

Courtesy of CRAFTS, the magazine for Contemporary Craft