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Fernando Casasempere - in 'FT How to Spend It' Magazine

7 April 2007

Emma Crichton-Miller, 'Not to be Glazed Over', FT How to Spend It Magazine, 7 April 2007, pp. 35-38

Freed from the tyranny of the vessel, ceramic art has a new exuberance, originality and collectability, says Emma Crichton-Miller

'Other august temples of the arts have opened their doors to ceramics ... Chilean sculptor Fernando Casasempere, meanwhile, who has exhibited work at the New Art Centre at Roche Court, has been commissioned by the Jerwood Foundation to produce a new work this year specifically for the Jerwood Sculpture Park at Ragley. His piece , entitled Under the Forest, is a vast ceramic sculpture comprising five colossal tree-trunk like forms, incorporating waste material from the Chilean petrochemical and copper industries, and was fired using a 20m industrial kiln at a brick factory.'

To read the full story visit www.ft.com/howtospendit, choose the April 2007 digital edition and turn to pp. 35-38