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Gundula Sommerer
About the object: Gundula Sommerer's blue vase made of stoneware impresses with its exciting design, is handcrafted and created using the slab technique. The shape, which is remotely reminiscent of a 7-star hotel in Dubai, is in stark contrast to the surface, which looks as if the vase was carved directly from a field of solidified lava. The bluish beige shades of the approx. 38 cm high vase created by an engobe, in combination with the many cracks in the surface, are a real eye-catcher and make this watertight vase look unique with or without flowers. The opening of the vase is round but small, making the object suitable for long-stemmed delicate bouquets, field and cornflowers, grasses or individual branches. Due to its high weight of approx. 4.9 kg, the vase is stable. Gundula Sommerer produces this vase in small series. Each vase is unique.
Manufacturing process: This ceramic vase made of clay is handmade using the slab technique. It is engobed on the outside and glazed on the inside. The first firing takes place in an electric kiln at 920°C, the second firing at 1280°C in a gas kiln with a reduced atmosphere (lightly salted).
This produces stoneware clay, which is much firmer than earthenware clay with firing temperatures below 1200°C. Although not recommended, the vase can also be used outside of closed rooms.
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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.
