An Artistic Photoshoot | Norki Partners with the Ritsch-Fisch Gallery
A Poetic Fusion of Artwork and Craftsmanship
In the Norki Workshops, there is a buzz of excitement… Amidst this orchestrated flurry of skilled hands, works of raw and contemporary art take shape and find their place discreetly. Almost-living ceramics peek out among spools of thread and artisans. Colourful contemporary paintings reveal themselves and dress the sewing workshop in response to the rainbow threads. Small gouache paintings on paper are scattered throughout the workshop, among sheepskins and rolls of fabric…
An extraordinary photoshoot that brings together the work of the artist’s hand—painter and sculptor—and that of artisans. Both are masters in the creation of art, so why not let their work dance together and create harmony?
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Time seems suspended—the creative frenzy coexists with the calm of artistic intent. In the vibrant energy of the Norki workshops, works of art rise from work tables and sewing machines.
It is in this creative effervescence, unique to the workshops, amidst wooden frames, sculpted foam, and the meticulous gestures of artisans, that our eyes caught sight of rare artworks.
Each piece carries within it the duality of the Art world: the rawness of noble materials and the finesse of the hand that shapes them.
A secret language weaves itself between the artworks and the materials—a silent conversation where each sculpture, each painting seems to respond to the roughness of wood or the softness of sheepskins.
Three Artists, Three Worlds, Three Generations, Gathered in an Artisanal Setting
Cassandre Albert
Her misty, blurred landscapes sketch the outlines of a fragile architecture where the unspeakable finds meaning. Each work carries a silent tension between the representation of the landscape and an almost mystical interpretation.
In this in-between, between the visible and the invisible, Cassandre Albert opens uncertain worlds where the gaze is lost, inviting each person to redefine their bearings and their relationship to reality.
The beam, a discreet common thread, runs through her universe. An essential architectural element, it echoes the frames of our armchairs, recalling what structures and supports. This dialogue between construction and erasure, between solidity and blur, unites the pictorial work and the object in the making. The unfinished armchair seems to share the same suspension, somewhere between idea and matter.
Carlo Zinelli
This artist leads us into a gentle melancholy, a subtle reverie that whispers the buried stories of the human soul.
His pictorial universe unfolds in an accumulation of motifs, a play of shifting perspectives and scales, giving birth to richly narrative compositions.
This proliferation of forms and symbols finds an echo in our workshops, where the accumulation of foam pieces and fabric rolls becomes, in turn, a visual language.
His art, untouched by contemporary trends, bears the mark of a quest for original purity—a raw and sincere gaze that we share in our artistic approach: a creative freedom we proudly claim.
It is this spirit that we sought to capture in our photoshoot, blending Giorgetti chair structures, colourful sheepskins, and scattered foam fragments—each a nod to this unique poetry where every element, however modest, becomes imbued with meaning.
Stefan Holzmüller
Stefan Holzmüller sculpts robustness and fragility in a single gesture, breathing life into works where matter seems to become flesh.
His organic forms, shaped in ceramic, find an echo in the lines of a rug, extending this almost magical visual language that shapes a world both dreamlike and sensual.
A Poetic Laboratory
The Workshop becomes a true poetic laboratory—a place of convergence where materials converse in silence.
Amid sheepskins still in their raw state, the sculpture reveals itself like a work of art suspended between nature and creation, between strength and delicacy.
The gesture of the artist and that of the artisan respond to each other. The hand that sculpts, the one that shapes, the one that polishes: all draw the same horizon—that of pure creation.
The workshop becomes a living poem, a place where the imagination brushes against raw reality, where art is built and deconstructed endlessly.
