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Gundula Sommerer
About the object: Gundula Sommerer's beautiful asymmetrical vases are handmade from white clay using the slab technique and each one is unique. The indentations in the unglazed surface of the vase are blackened. This vase has five openings on the top, is glazed on the inside and is watertight. It is approx. 20 cm high, 34.5 cm wide and 6 cm deep and is ideal for fresh bouquets, field and cornflowers as well as dried grasses or individual flowers.
Manufacturing process: The vase is made of white clay using the slab technique. The indentations in the unglazed surface, which are created during the drying process before the first firing, are dusted with an oxide mixture after biscuit firing (920 degrees). The oxides remain in the depressions and the vase is glazed from the inside. This vase was fired at a reducing temperature of 1250 to 1280 degrees in a gas kiln. After the second firing, the oxide in the recesses is black.
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Gundula Sommerer has a special talent for finding formal languages for emotional states and inner worlds. In her art, she reflects on her own phases of life, resulting in a repertoire that is as diverse as life itself.
The objects obtain their coal-black coloring and fine cracked structures through the raku firing technique. In this process, the workpieces are removed from the kiln red-hot and then placed in sawdust, where they are blackened by the carbon released during the burning process. The resulting surfaces develop a unique, expressive aesthetic. The raku firing technique has its origins in Japan, where it originated in the 16th century in connection with the tea ceremony.
Gundula Sommerer was born in Stade in 1950. She trained as an art teacher from 1969 to 1975 and then studied ceramics and sculpture at the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Bremen from 1975 to 1977. She then set up her own business as a ceramicist in Visselhövede. Study trips and her work took her to the USA and to France for several years before she returned to Germany in 2004. In 2011, she completed her training by qualifying as an art therapist. Gundula Sommerer is a member of the Berufsverband Angewandte Kunst Schleswig-Holstein and the FFKK (Flensborg Fjords Kunst & Kulturforeningen). From 2016 to 2020 she was a member of Danske Kunsthandvaerkere & Designere. Since 2017 she has been running the gallery TonArt in Flensburg together with Ueze Oldenburg. Her works are regularly represented in exhibitions at home and abroad, including in France, Denmark and Austria.
