La piscine

With her work “La piscine”, Delphine Araxi goes from Debret to Gaudi and tells a story in a parallel world.

This work, this pool or laguna, is organic and freely inspired by the forms of nature, inspired by everything: everything around me, everything I’ve seen in Brazil.

And above all, by the perfection of the animal, vegetable and mineral worlds that allow man to be in harmony with nature. The originality of this pool lies in its return to the origins of the caquinhos, combining the traditional knowledge of Brazilian craftsmen with new technological advances.

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The earliest reference to “cacos” or “caquinhos” appears in a travel account by Jean Baptiste Debret (1768-1848), who in 1826 described a drumming and singing circle of African slaves around a fountain in a square in the city of Rio de Janeiro, then capital of the Brazilian Empire.

Debret reports that ” splinters of crockery ” were used in the drums, along with other sound objects, to accompany the singing. These ” caquinhos ” then spread throughout Brazilian society. Red caquinhos flooring, popular since the 1940s, is a historical legacy of São Paulo. Antoni Gaudí influenced the use of broken ceramics, symbolizing resilience and transformation in the face of life’s adversities.

Art creates beauty, and marketing tries to explain the mystery of the broken piece that is worth more than the whole piece.

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