Rona Kobel, who was born in Freiburg in 1982 and studied at the University of the Arts in Berlin, creates her shiny, politically powerful objects from unique KPM porcelain. In the limited works "couRAGE" and "Freedoom", the artist designs each unique piece by hand, using a subtle twist that helps the Jewish designer Marguerite Friedlaender make a quiet comeback.
The artist Rona Kobel
(Photo: Trevor Good)
COURAGE
“couRAGE” is available in white biscuit and metallic luster color, limited to 15 and 9 pieces respectively. The relief letters of the biscuit version extend over the entire height of the vase and were hand-crafted by the artist in varying thicknesses.
"Implementing unpleasant topics in noble material - that creates irritation. Packing up horror moments and stories in something as beautiful, as precious and valuable as porcelain brings special attention, the three-dimensionality forces us to engage and our flooding by the media is broken - we look again." - Rona Kobel
"Implementing unpleasant topics in noble material - that creates irritation. Packaging horror moments and stories in something as beautiful, as precious and valuable as porcelain brings special attention, the three-dimensionality forces us to engage and our flooding by the media is broken - we look again."
- Rona Kobel
"Implementing unpleasant topics in noble material - that creates irritation. Packing up horror moments and stories in something as beautiful, as precious and valuable as porcelain brings special attention, the three-dimensionality forces us to engage and our flooding by the media is broken - we look again." - Rona Kobel
The KPM+ Rona Kobel Vase Halle 3 “couRAGE” Mirror was limited to 15 pieces and is no longer available.
FREEDOM
“Freedoom” is available in 5 colors and is limited to 9 pieces each. The sugary sweet effect of the objects only lasts a short moment until you become aware of the desperate eyes in the double O - which in the pistachio green version are even pierced and can therefore cry. The artist has finished each unique piece by hand.
"PUBLICITY, FAME AND THE LIMELIGHT ARE AS FLEET AS CLOUDS, BUT A GOOD VESSEL WILL LASTS FOR CENTURIES."
- wrote Friedlaender in her 1973 autobiography
About the Hall Form
In 1931, Marguerite Friedlaender designed the HALLE vase, an icon of the Bauhaus tradition in terms of its proportions, lines and simple curves. However, the Jewish designer was initially denied the recognition she deserved with the rise of National Socialism.