Description
NERÓ VÁZO A
Vase of water in Greek and namesake of Black Vase in Italian _ is a unique piece carved in Morta stauré water, dating from the VI ° millennium BC. J.-C., imagined by Juan Pablo Naranjo and Jean-Christophe Orthlieb, designers and co-founders of the NOCC design studio and realized by the Atelier d’Ebénisterie Escoffre.
This work is the first of the series “NERÓ VÁZO” for which NOCC has developed the concept of Utopian Archeology.
NERÓ VÁZO A was born from a meeting between the NOCC design studio, the Ebénisterie Escoffre and Antique Wood Workshop. This unique work is carved in a wood of more than 8000 years old called Morta.
Morta is a wood from trees that have been buried for millennia in the swamp mud. This very particular environment preserved them and transformed them into partially petrified wood.
The creative approach of the NOCC studio blurs the charts of time and represents a contemporary version of a Neolithic amphora. The result obtained is an object of imaginary and unique archeology: the surface and material effects are made with tools similar to those used in the Neolithic, and its shape is inspired by containers made by men at that time.
This object of utopian archeology makes it possible to materialize a precise moment of human and geographical history, and to symbolize a footprint in time. The adjustment of the techniques of turning and sculpture allowed the workshop Escoffre to work in an exceptional way the waterlogged matter, of an extreme fragility, and to obtain the smoothness and the regularity of the drawing.
The NOCC Studio revealed for the first time this piece at Christie’s Paris, under the curation of The Art Design Lab.
