Torbjørn Kvasbø

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Jorunn Veiteberg | Kerstin Wickman

Torbjørn Kvasbø

CeramiCs Between the PossiBle and the imPossiBle

ARNOLDSCHE Art Publishers

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4 Bottle with cups, 1981. La Borne stoneware, china clay slip on cups, salt glaze. Bottle: H 10 cm, cups: H 4 cm. Private collection. 5 Jug with two cups, 1982. Stoneware, china clay slip, woodfired salt glaze. Jug: H 25 cm. The National Museum of Decorative Arts, Trondheim, Norway. 6 Vase, 1981. Stoneware, china slip, calcium wadding marks, wood-fired salt glaze. H 22 cm. Sør-Trøndelag County, Norway.

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34 Chest/house form, 1993. Iron-rich stoneware, slab built, silica rocks, wire cut, thick slip on roof, crushed seashells, natural ash glaze, reduction cooling, contact flashing, anagama-fired. H 50 x W 35 x D 20 cm. Auckland War Memorial Museum, Auckland, New Zealand. Judge’s Commendation, Fletcher Challenge Ceramics Award, New Zealand, 1993. 35 Chest form, 1993. Borgestad alumina-rich stoneware, ornaments by stretching layers of clay, slab built, natural ash glaze and flashing, anagamafired. W 75 cm. Private collection.

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Pages 152–153: 66 Stack, turquoise, 2010. White earthenware clay, extruded pipe elements roughly modelled together in centre of stack around a wheelthrown bottom centre cone, alkaline frit-based copper oxide Egyptian blue glaze; the darker parts also contain cobalt carbonate. The low viscosity of the glaze clearly reveals all the details in the body underneath, kiln shelf, electric kiln. H 75 x Dia. 50 cm. Private collection, Oslo, Norway. 67 Tube forms, red, 2013. Stoneware clay, extruded tube elements roughly modelled together, lead bisilicate-based glaze thickly applied, running glaze with red stain, kiln shelf, electric kiln. H 90 x Dia. 80 cm. Private collection.

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68 Stack, green, 2009. Terracotta clay, extruded pipe elements, roughly modelled together in centre of stack round a wheel-thrown bottom centre cone, white ball clay slip sprayed on, lead bisilicate-based semitransparent glaze with copper oxide, electric kiln. H 90 x Dia. 60 cm. Private collection. 69 Stack, red, 2009. Terracotta clay, extruded pipe elements roughly modelled together in centre of stack around a wheel-thrown bottom centre cone, white ball clay slip sprayed on surface, lead bisilicatebased glaze with red stain thickly applied, running glaze with red stain, kiln shelf, electric kiln. H 75 x Dia. 50 cm. Lillehammer Art Museum, Lillehammer, Norway.

70 Stack, yellow, 2010. Terracotta clay, extruded pipe elements, roughly modelled together in centre of stack around a wheel-thrown bottom centre cone, white ball clay slip sprayed on, red lead-based glaze, kiln shelf, electric kiln. H 80 x Dia. 50 cm. Private collection. 71 Stack, green, 2009. Terracotta clay, extruded pipe elements, roughly modelled together in centre of stack around a wheel-thrown bottom centre cone, white ball clay slip sprayed on, lead bisilicate-based semi-transparent glaze with copper oxide, kiln shelf, electric kiln. H 80 x Dia. 50 cm. Private collection, London, Great Britain.

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73 Stack, terracotta, 2010. English terracotta clay (Evans), extruded pipe elements roughly modelled together in centre of stack around a wheelthrown bottom centre cone, unglazed, sandblasted when dry, electricfired. H 80 x Dia. 50 cm. Private collection. 74 Stack, black, 2010. Black earthenware clay, extruded pipe elements roughly modelled together in centre of stack around a wheel-thrown bottom centre cone, unglazed, sandblasted when dry, electric-fired. H 80 x Dia. 50 cm. Private collection.

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