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Horace said, "Fate is like glass. The brighter it is, the more it fragile." However, even if the shining life is fleeting and the dark death is everlasting, everyone is still eager to chase the light of life and bloom the brilliance of life. We know that glass is so crumbly and fragile, and we still love and cherish it.

In this post, we share the works of 5 world-renowned glass masters. Whether blown, cast, cut or colored, these masters are committed to exploring the endless possibilities of glass and presenting their incredible beauty. Their efforts make glass go beyond the functional realm and become an art.

NO.01

Lino Tagliapietra

For those who know about artistic glass, Lino Tagliapietra, the master of glass, is the giant of this art. Lino is not only one of the best glass blowers in the world, but is also known as a "master of the art" and a "rock star" in the glass world.

Because he brings traditional Venetian glass technology to the contemporary art world, he realizes the perfect combination of impeccable conventional craftsmanship and modern art trends.

Lino was born in 1934 on the island of Murano. On this tiny island known as the Kingdom of Glass, Lino has been an apprentice in a glass factory since 11, living beside a glass furnace and learning traditional wire-drawing thermoplastic techniques.

In his early 20s, he became a master glassblower and was hailed as a genius creator. When he was 45, he met a glass blower named Benjamin Moore, who introduced him to work at the Pilchuck Glass School in Seattle, which became the center of the American glass movement.

Since then, many of the finest American glass artists, such as William Morris and Preston Singletary, have emerged under Lino's tutelage. Lino became the leader of the American glass movement and the master of the modern glass Renaissance.

Lino has spent his life exploring the boundaries and limits of glass blowing. His works are wild and avant-garde, with many loops and curves that combine the organic shapes of nature with the inner verve of modern painting.

"Glass blowing has always been a fascinating medium for me," says Lino. "The idea of creating delicate and unique shapes through a harsh heating and cooling process is fascinating."

"For me, glass is a culture, a tradition that goes back thousands of years. But glass art doesn't have to be done perfectly. To really emphasize the beauty of color and shape, it's more important that the work has spirit."

Before retiring, Lino said: "For 75 years, glass has been my whole life and the furnace is my home. All my thoughts are reflected in the glass. It's the foundation on which I started everything, and I'm honored to be able to pass that love on to more people.

NO.02

Rui Sasaki

Rui Sasaki is a Japanese conceptual glass artist. In recent years, she has gained international fame for her ethereal, dreamy, surrealist works.

She uses phosphorescent glass, a material that stores light and glows in the dark, to make light-emitting devices of varying sizes. The works appear like turquoise auroras in dark rooms, from cascading raindrops to kitchenware and various abstract objects.

Originally from the Kanto region of Japan, Sasaki became interested in changing weather after moving to Hokuriku, which is known for its changeable climate, and showcases this subtle variability in her glass art.

"When I first moved here, I was surprised by the overcast skies, variable weather, heavy rain, and high humidity in Hokuriku. Here, sunlight becomes precious. I hope to convey this feeling in an artistic way."

"The phosphorescent glass I use stores light with wavelengths close to the sun's light, and the stored light then glows in the dark, meaning that what is seen now is the accumulated light of the past.

If one viewer stays in the gallery for a long time, the next viewer will see the work glow faintly in the dark. The phosphorescent glass dimms little by little as the viewing time goes on, until finally the gallery is plunged into darkness."

"At their brightest, the phosphorescent crystals appear green before fading to blue. Visitors will no doubt be surprised to find that even if they can't see anything when they first enter the gallery, stay long enough and their eyes adjust to the dark. No two experiences are the same, as each encounter creates a unique response in the recessed light."

Sasaki's glass art is full of Oriental aesthetics and modern metaphors. Sasaki explained: "I wanted people to notice the moment of finding themselves in this empty, dead world. When the light disappears, it doesn't matter, we feel our presence in the vast space.

When it comes to inspiration, Sasaki believes that it is important for artists to keep travelling and exploring. I travel all the time, Sasaki says. Perceiving a different aesthetic in a foreign country forced me to question my own concepts, processes, and visions when I returned home.

Traveling helps me create refined, nuanced concepts. One example is the weather: when I am not in Toyama, I do not realize the importance of sunshine and rain for the body and mind. So to stay inspired, you need to keep traveling and exploring.

NO.03

Austin Stern

Colorful, unique in shape, quaint and cute, this is the first impression of Austin's work when the audience first sees it. However, there are many warm wishes hidden among the playful creations of this eccentric artist.

Inspired by the high-saturation colors of childhood toys and cartoons, he reinterprets traditional Venetian glass craft and explores relationships and mental health instead.

Austin's glass sculpture is a collection of seemingly innocent creatures. They examine inner emotions, such as comfort, anxiety, and even fear, to have an emotional comfort and spiritual healing effect.

"I am inspired by childhood toys and cartoons, bright and highly saturated colors, and patterns from the natural and fashion worlds."

The "Little Monsters" series consists of seventeen different characters of different sizes and colors, all with small faces and simple lines. They are smooth, bright and attractive. They're all fighting a little ghost that's growing out of them.

Whether it is the malicious voice that constantly springs up in the head, or the emotion that wants to escape in pain, or the anxiety and panic about the unknown. With healing colors, the artists gently show the inner journey of each contradiction, and invite the audience to re-examine their own hearts.

By humorously exploring the subject from a playful and sweet point of view, the audience can explore the positive, peaceful, and happy moments of daily life.

Austin said: "Amid the pandemic we are experiencing, where anxiety in the world is soaring due to uncertainty and lack of sociability, this dialogue with art is a stimulus to overcome our mindset.

If we recognize ourselves among these little monsters and see that we are experiencing an emotional distortion. At least we can smile when we see these cute shapes and feel less lonely.

NO.04

Simone Crestani

Simone is a glass artist and designer known worldwide for his special flame-processing techniques. He creates beautiful glass sculptures that combine a passion for glass craftsmanship with a love of the natural world. These glass plants and animals have a magical and ethereal feel, as if they were made of ice.

"I have two passions in my life -- glass and nature. So in my work, I try to combine the two and give the sculpture a natural shape."

"I use borosilicate glass and lighting techniques. This has developed a personal style that allows me to focus on the smallest details when creating large pieces.

However, the creation of the work and the techniques used are only the last part of the process. It all starts with a feeling, a contrast, a hint that almost always comes from nature."

Simone was born in the Venice area in 1984 and started working in glass factories at 15. After a decade-long apprenticeship, he opened his own studio, where he continues to learn, research and innovate.

A self-taught artist, Simone strikes a balance between tradition and innovation, emphasizing fragile exteriors and concrete details, giving strong silhouettes and elegant interiors.

Simone's technique, his personal style, and complex poetics make him create an interaction. In this interaction, glass transcends its pure material dimension and becomes a delicate, pure, silent and crystalline conceptual element.

"Glass once again allows me to express the strong contradictions conveyed by nature: the precariousness of life and the energy of survival, the fragility of transparent surfaces, and the solidity of forms."

NO.05

Jason Gamrath

When you come to the glass world of artist Jason, you feel like you are in a charming tropical rain forest. On both sides of the lush path, dotted with huge barba hispanis and charming orchids, and huge Monstera deliciosas, Venus flytraps, cacao trees, citrus trees and banyan trees, which are full of vitality and bloom in the wind.

At the same time, exotic palm and bromeliad plants give the entire landscape an indescribable tropical atmosphere. In it, like a dream, it is hard to believe that these giant green plants are glass blown crafts.

For Jason, there is no better medium to create than glass. This amorphous material floats between hard, brittle, and molten adhesive, giving endless creative possibilities.

Jason, a glass blower in Seattle, has been fascinated with glass since he was a kid. He began to learn glass carving at the age of 15 and has worked with many renowned artists.

Like most glass blowers, Jason started out making practical ware. But he soon sought a bigger challenge. Jason said: "I decided to try to take it a step further and make something surreal.

Jason has created a stunning world of plants, whose macro scale and eye-catching appearance make people inevitably think of those overlooked beauties in nature, presented in an intricate and extreme way, and infinite release of great charm.

"When I zoom in on plant life forms, it inspires people to look at them from a different perspective. I hope people try to experience and observe our natural world in a humble and intimate way."

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What does SOA Arts mean? Our company is named save on art(SOA ARTS), because we hope that everyone who likes art can own our works of art at a good price. We want to extend beautiful things to different corners as far as possible.

At the same time, save on art also call on people not to throw away the existing artworks easily. You can use these artworks in another scene, or do some DIY to make ; the artworks glow with new luster and energy.

At SOA Arts, we know how hard it can be to find the large ceramic artwork you’re looking for. Fortunately, we have over 10 years of experience in making our clients’ interior design dreams a reality.

As a leading Chinese factory, we have everything we need to source, curate, commission, and produce exactly what you’re looking for. Get in touch and we’ll be happy to get the ball rolling.

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In recent years, while other brands have chosen celebrity spokespersons, Hermes, among the luxury brand, has acted in contravention, choosing to collaborate with artists from around the world. At the beginning of this year, when many luxury goods launched a variety of celebrity advertisements crowded the TV show, Hermes took an unusual path, using illustration animation to interpret the brand's charm. 

Hermes, which has always paid attention to quality and taste, is cautious when choosing illustrators. The illustrators and artists selected by Hermes represent its taste and style. Today we take a look at 10 illustrators and artists from all over the world who have worked with Hermes for a long time. Let's enjoy the taste of Hermes through their works.

01 Jacco Bunt（NL）

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Artist Jacco Bunt is based in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, and works in painting and digital art. He is good at capturing the essence of everyday life and transforming it into a colorful and balanced composition that delivers an aesthetic atmosphere of interest to the audience in an abstract expression. In 2021, Jacco Bunt was invited to create an animation for Hermes, combining classic Hermes orange and bright colors to compose a whole new world with geometry. In addition, Jacco Bunt created the illustrated visuals for the newly opened Hermes Beijing International Trade Store.

02 Alexis Jamet（France）

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Alexis Jamet, a French designer and illustrator based in Paris, works in a very personal style, including traditional media and animated short films that combine craft and digital techniques. He has worked with the New York Times, Hermes, Apple, Nike, Issey Miyake and other media and brands.

In 2021, Alexis Jamet was invited to create an animated New Year video for Hermes, and has also created works related to the theme "Innovation in Manufacturing" for the new Hermes store in Manhattan, creating a visual language for each installation through signage systems and interactive animation. This year, Alexis Jamet collaborated with Hermes in an animated video:

03 Edward Carvalho-Monaghan（UK）

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Edward Carvalho Monaghan, an illustrator from London, specializes in using bold graphics and color blocks to create visual art full of vibrant images and bright psychedelic colors, bringing people a magical and exciting feeling.

With his highly recognizable and explosive style, the illustrator has won the attention of well-known brands such as Apple, Hermes, Bvlgari, Swatch, and received design commissions from media organizations such as The Guardian and the Sunday Times.

04 Geoffroy de Crécy（France）

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French visual artist Geoffroy de Crecy uses people, animals and objects to make time stop and repeat in a playful and imaginative way. Because of his unique works, many well-known international brands have come to cooperate with him, including Louis Vuitton, Dior, Hermes, Chanel and so on.

05 Baptiste Virot（France）

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Baptiste viro, an illustrator and graphic designer from France, works in a simple and vivid style, often using bold colors and geometric shapes, and has a strong visual impact. He has worked with a number of internationally renowned brands, including Nike, Louis Vuitton, The New York Times and Hermes, presenting a unique French surreal aesthetic world.

06 Marie Mohanna（France）

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Marie Mohanna, an illustrator from France, is a color genius. Most of the colors in her works come from 1980s animation, with rich colors and delicate pictures. She is adept at painting landscapes and exotic architectural landscapes in a style that combines Japanese and retro futurism. She has worked with brands such as Kiblind, Hermes and Adidas.

07 Simon Bailly（France）

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Simon Bailly, an illustrator from France, is good at using black humor to express some profound truths. Most of his works are set in a world of retro futurism, quite like old comic book covers, with bright colors and no overemphasis on changes in light and shadow. As soon as he graduated, he was invited to collaborate with many national publications, including the New Yorker and the Los Angeles Times, and the Hermes brand Le Monde d 'Hermes recently invited Simon Bailly to create illustrations.

08 Karlotta Freier（German）

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Karlotta Freie, a German illustrator, is good at creating illustrations with bright colors and unique line styles, injecting dreamlike vitality into expressions with surrealistic narrative methods. In her illustrations, proportion and perspective make the relationship between elements very subtle: placing people next to giant flowers or animals, or using landscapes to amplify the tiny nature of the human being in the vast universe.

She often does illustrations for world-famous magazines such as The New Yorker, The New York Times, and Time. In addition, she has won the favor of many international brands with the beauty full of philosophical meaning in her works, and has received the illustration cooperation invitation of Hermes, Red Bull and other brands, telling good stories for brands through images.

09 Mike Perry（US）

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Mike Perry, an artist from the United States, is good at drawing illustrations with strong visual impact, often using high-saturation colors, patterns and abstract geometric shapes. His works are humorous and ironic, full of vitality and vigour, and have a distinctive style. He has illustrated for many famous brands, such as Apple, Coca-Cola, Nike, MTV, Vans, The New York Times, Hermes, etc. He has also won many awards, such as Grammy Awards and Golden Pencil Awards.

In addition to illustration and artistic creation, Mike Perry is also a musician and filmmaker who has produced original music and visual effects for a number of films and music recordings.

10 Sophy Hollington（UK）

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Uk-based illustrator and artist Sophy Hollington's style is full of mystery, fantasy and quirky elements, often using black and white lines, textures and suggestive images to construct complex scenes and stories. Her works cover a variety of subjects, including myths, legends, exotic cultures and fantasy novels, often presenting an atmosphere of absurdity, horror and mystery.

Sophy Hollington has created artwork and advertising for a number of well-known brands and agencies, including Hermes, The New York Times, Nike, Apple and the BBC. His work has won several awards, including D&AD, AOI and Communication Arts.

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Ceramics Exhibitions in June

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Artworks of Wu Haoyu

Exhibition duration: June 9 - August 9, 2023

Venue: RK Gallery, Shanghai

Wu Haoyu is a mature and stylish artist in this age group. His work has appeared in international exhibitions and has won many awards. His works go from the material, from the simple language of white porcelain, to the core of traditional Chinese culture, that is, he is thinking about the "soft" and "hard" of a perception, and the relationship between eternity and emotion. This makes his works oriented towards the preference of stone and paper, and the embedding of paper makes a very unique visual language appear in his creation system. A hard stone produces such a flexible paper only by the change of texture to achieve such a soft and hard synthesis and link, which is a peculiar angle. This perspective contains the expression and emotional appeal of ceramic elements, which makes it more possible to turn the mold grouting, such a very traditional technique, and also makes a unique value in such a language system.

Casting has been widely used by modern and contemporary ceramists at home and abroad. Those who have some understanding of pottery can cite many examples, but Wu Haoyu shows his value as an individual. In addition, there is a lingering Confucian elegance of porcelain materials in his works, which can exist independently in different Spaces, and can also be a series of juxtapositions.

His grasp of the overall form of the work belongs to his personal way of understanding, and the technique he chose naturally fits his expression. 

I think the most important thing is that he has established his individual value in the world of ceramics.

Alfred Ceramics MFA Graduates 2023

Group Exhibition at Sculpture Space NYC

Exhibition duration: May 26 - June 24, 2023

Venue: Sculpture Space NYC

The Master of Fine Arts (MFA) Class of 2023 from the Department of Ceramic Art in the Alfred University School of Art and Design will exhibit their selected works at the Sculpture Space NYC. The exhibition, "Alfred Ceramics MFA Graduates 2023," will be on display from May 26 to June 24, 2023.

In collaboration with the New York Sculpture Space, Alfred University hopes that through this annual exhibition, new generations of potters will be encouraged to create, and young potters will be inspired to explore new directions.

A Gathering: Works From Contemporary Black American Ceramic Artists

Exhibition duration: May 7 - August 20, 2023

Venue: Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento

The exhibition, which features the work of 35 black American potters, is based on the book Contemporary Black American Ceramic Artists, whose authors Elaine Dean and Donald Clark are co-curators of the exhibition.

The exhibition features works ranging from functional to non-functional pottery, as well as sculptural creations of various sizes and processes. The artists at the exhibition also have different identities; some have been working in pottery creation for decades, and some are new to pottery and emerging in the industry. Some ceramists work full-time in their studios, while others devote their time to creating during breaks from their daily work. In short, clay can act as a good medium for them to tell the story of black people in America as artists.

Anthology of White – Korean Craft Museum & Seoul Museum of Craft Art Special Exhibition

Exhibition duration: March 18 - September 17, 2023

Venue: Korean Craft Museum, Cheongju, Korea

The exhibition "Anthology of White" is a joint project of the Korean Craft Museum and the Seoul Museum of Craft Art Special Exhibition to showcase contemporary Korean ceramics. Expand our gaze to the current state of Korean pottery development, look closely at the ceramic crafts we are familiar with, find the colors and textures we are unaware of because of familiarity, and hear the hard work and untold stories of the craftsmen to create them. "Muncheonggu" and "white porcelain" from the Joseon era are still loved by the Korean people, reflecting more than 1,000 years of tradition and the life of artisans in porcelain. White is not only a decorative element, but also an indispensable background for expressing the color and texture of ceramic materials. Now that the barriers between regions and schools have been broken down, the ceramic manufacturing industry is undergoing a major era change, and the ceramists in the exhibition are seeking to change, looking for new uses of materials in the current, to inject new life into the clay.

Erna Aaltonen: Recent works at Galerie de l’Ancienne Poste, Toucy

Exhibition duration: May 13 - June 29, 2023

Venue: Galerie de l 'Ancienne Poste, Toucy, France

World-renowned Finnish ceramic artist Erna Aaltonen has dedicated her third solo exhibition at the Old Post Office Gallery in Toussi, France, to a set of 14 spheroid-shaped POTS. After exploring many sculptural languages and structural forms, she resumed her work in the spheroidal and ovoid forms for which she became famous. These new works embody the aesthetic coherence of the artist, who continues the formal language of her favorite designs while introducing subtle variations that can still impress collectors around the world.

For Erna Altonen, who shapes the spherical structures by making clay strips, handmade ceramics are never completely regular, or "the vitality of a work of art comes from precisely this imperfection." Elna uses a notched metal saw blade to make deep and shallow scratches on the surface of the work to create slight dents or reliefs, an irregular texture that is sometimes rough and sometimes smooth. Vertical, irregularly textured lines converge into a narrow opening at the top of the work. Finally, the uneven surface oxide and the bottom glaze completely cover the spherical body, and the whole changes in unity and unity in change.

Between Perfection and Destruction: Fang Lijun Porcelain Sculpture

Exhibition duration: June 1 - June 30, 2023

Venue: ESKENAZI, London

Fang Lijun (born 1963) is presenting the artist's first solo exhibition in the UK, Between Perfection and Destruction: Fang Lijun Porcelain Sculpture, at ESKENNAZI (London, UK) from June 1 to June 30, 2023.

A leading figure in the cynical realism movement that emerged in China in the 1990s, Fang Lijun's paintings are internationally renowned for their large hairless figures and exaggerated features. However, Fang's versatility as an artist is reflected in his ability to freely switch between different media, including oil painting, woodcut and ceramics, according to the needs of his performance. The exhibition will highlight nine ceramic sculptures, and transparent, modular stacked structures that explore the flow between perfection and breakdown. The exhibition will also feature several of Fang's ink drawings, giving you insight into how these ceramic sculptures were made, as well as two striking ink portraits.

Kenneth Baskin: Mechanical Movements at Plinth Gallery, Denver

Exhibition duration: June 2 - July 1, 2023

Venue: Plinth Gallery, Denver

Objects created by human ingenuity are defined as artifacts, and each artifact has its own unique cultural and historical context. Baskin was interested in using ceramic materials to represent abstract mechanical parts skillfully. Although mechanical parts exist only as part of the whole inside the machine, when viewed separately, they are a complete artifact with mechanical dynamics, which is an indispensable part of the entire precision mechanical device. Baskin believed that the creation of mechanical parts was a combination of human activity, cultural needs and social progress. Although the work itself is static, the "push and pull", and "transmission and reception" relationship between the mechanical parts implies the continuous movement of the machine.

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What does SOA Arts mean? Our company is named save on art(SOA ARTS), because we hope that everyone who likes art can own our works of art at a good price. We want to extend beautiful things to different corners as far as possible.

At the same time, save on art also call on people not to throw away the existing artworks easily. You can use these artworks in another scene, or do some DIY to make ; the artworks glow with new luster and energy.

At SOA Arts, we know how hard it can be to find the large ceramic artwork you’re looking for. Fortunately, we have over 10 years of experience in making our clients’ interior design dreams a reality.

As a leading Chinese factory, we have everything we need to source, curate, commission, and produce exactly what you’re looking for. Get in touch and we’ll be happy to get the ball rolling.

Start your art project commissions today. 

1.Clay-strip Building Method

(1) Take an appropriate amount of mud material, with both hands naturally pinch, turn, make it into a round rod.

(2) Put the round mud stick across the work table, rub it evenly with your fingers, rolling side by side, walk around with your fingers, from thick to fine.

(3) Rub as needed into the same thickness, uniform size mud strip.

(4) Lay the mud strip on the turntable to make a bottom while press the mud strip, and then increase the height, and finally make the shape you need.

(5) Each additional layer should be pressed internally and externally, compacting and pressing evenly to avoid cracking when dry.

2. Sculpture Molding

Sculpting is one of the most primitive, basic, and simple ways to make pottery. You need to use your hands to shape the clay into the shape you want to shape. You can also use tools such as a sculpture knife to make a statue, and hollow out the statue when the mud is half dry.

3.Clay Slab Building

Clay slab molding is to roll clay blocks into clay boards by manual or mud press, and then use these clay boards to build. Pay attention to the thickness of the mud, to meet the needs of the pottery work. Making use of the softness of the clay, can be molded like cloth, and the use of the hard characteristics of the clay board can be molded like a wooden board. Clay slab building has a wide range of applications, from flat to three-dimensional, can be changed in shape, can be bent and rolled when the clay board is wet and soft, to make a natural and beautiful shape, can also be made when the clay board is half dry, straight objects.

4. Blank Printing

The forming method of printing billet is a method of using gypsum mold to form. Since ancient times. This method is widely used in ceramic production, usually we use a plaster mold, the master mold can be made of plaster or clay molding, and then according to the mold turned into a number of molds, after the mold is dried, you can print the billet body, impression molding. The impression should be uniform and pressed, in order to print out the complete shape of the complex form of the work, to be divided into die printing, and then synthetic, at the interface to be bonded with mud, the body after the release of the incomplete to repair, excess to scrape off. This method can reproduce the product in large quantities, which brings a lot of convenience in the production of ceramics.

5. Moulding by Throwing

Drawing blank: also known as "doing blank," forming the first stage of the embryonic form of objects produced. Throwing is the use of rotating power with the action of both hands, and then pottery drawing machine. Molding method for throwing mud into various shapes. It is also a common and traditional molding method in ceramic production. But it's very technical, very demanding. This method takes a long time to master, the body can start from a simple bowl, cup, plate, skilled and then pull bottles, cans and other complex modeling, three feet of ice is not cold in a day, in order to master the technology of throwing craft, must work hard.

6. Slip Casting

Slip casting is widely used in the mass production of daily ceramics, and it is also one of the techniques of pottery molding. After the mold is dry, the prepared mud is injected into the plaster mold. With the speed of water absorption of the plaster mold, filling with mud in time. When the slurry of the plaster mold reaches a certain thickness, the excess mud in the mold is poured out, and the blank body can be removed from the plaster mold after drying. In addition, it is necessary to maintain (master) a specific dry humidity for moisturizing.

SOA Arts – Ceramic Sculptures for Hotels, Corporates, and More

What does SOA Arts mean? Our company is named save on art(SOA ARTS), because we hope that everyone who likes art can own our works of art at a good price. We want to extend beautiful things to different corners as far as possible.

At the same time, save on art also call on people not to throw away the existing artworks easily. You can use these artworks in another scene, or do some DIY to make ; the artworks glow with new luster and energy.

At SOA Arts, we know how hard it can be to find the ceramic artwork you’re looking for. Fortunately, we have over 10 years of experience in making our clients’ interior design dreams a reality.

As a leading Chinese factory, we have everything we need to source, curate, commission, and produce exactly what you’re looking for. Get in touch and we’ll be happy to get the ball rolling.

Start your art project commissions today. 

10 Exciting Museums Under Construction

11 Sanxingdui Ancient Shu Cultural Heritage Museum

Guanghan City, Sichuan Province, China

image via Southwest China Architecture Design and Research Institute

Sanxingdui Ancient Shu Cultural Heritage Museum, also called The Eyes of Sanxingdui has attracted wide public attention since it began to solicit architectural design proposals from all over the world. Ten famous Chinese and foreign architectural firms, including He Jingtang, Beijing Construction Institute, MAD, were shortlisted for conceptual proposals, and China Construction Southwest Institute won the final prize. The final plan was originally designed by the team of China Construction Southwest Institute, and Isozaki Xin + Hu Qian Studio of the consortium acted as the project consultant. The new Sanxingdui Museum has now broken ground.

The architectural exterior is an abstract form of Sanxingdui's iconic "Eye of Ancient Shu". The roof is covered with sloping soil, and the building is integrated into the site to form three covered mounds arranged along the central axis, meaning "stacking three stars", generating a unique shape rhythm.

12 Lucas Museum of Narrative Art

Los Angeles, USA

image via Archdaily

In July 2014, Ma Yansong /MAD Architects won a competition to design the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, beating OMA, Zaha and others. In 2016, the museum announced that it would forgo Chicago and instead choose Los Angeles or San Francisco. MAD made two different proposals for the two sites. In 2017, the museum was located in Los Angeles. Ground was broken in March 2018, and the museum is expected to open in 2025.

In Ma Yansong's vision, the museum is like a future battleship floating in the air, with a large ceiling in the middle of the building that serves as a gateway to the future for pedestrians to walk through, while giving the ground back to the public for exercise and rest.

13 The North Campus of the Palace Museum

Beijing, China

image via Beijing Institute of Architectural Design

On Dec 30, 2022, construction of the North Courtyard of the Palace Museum officially began. The North courtyard of the Palace Museum is located outside the Fifth Ring Road in the northwest suburbs of Beijing, and is expected to be completed in three years.

The north courtyard of the Forbidden City is surrounded by water in the south and mountains in the north. The architectural appearance of the Forbidden City adopts the classic color scheme, such as the gray outer wall, red inner wall and golden roof. At the same time, it also draws lessons from a large number of traditional architectural elements and the planning pattern of many traditional gardens, such as the traditional spatial layout of "palace", "hall", "house" and "courtyard".

14 Guggenheim Abu Dhabi

ABU Dhabi, UAE

image via Gehry Partners

The Guggenheim Museum in ABU Dhabi, designed by architect Frank Gehry, is expected to open in 2025. It has been 20 years since the project was conceived and 14 years since construction began.

Surrounded on three sides by the glistening waters of the Arabian Gulf, the museum consists of 11 striking cone-shaped structures that Gehry describes as "a step towards clarity out of deliberate chaos."

15 Natural History Museum Abu Dhabi

Abu Dhabi, UAE

image via Mecanoo

Also slated to open in 2025 is the Natural History Museum Abu Dhabi, which is inspired by natural rock formations and is shaped like a beehive, with vegetation covering the layers and water, a symbol of the desert's vitality.

16 Shanghai Museum East Hall

Shanghai, China

image via TJAD

Positioned as "the world's top Museum of ancient Chinese art", the East Hall of Shanghai Museum is expected to be completed and opened by the end of 2023. It will become a future-oriented super-large museum, forming a cluster effect with the surrounding Shanghai Science and Technology Museum, Oriental Art Center, East Hall of Shanghai Library, Century Park and other cultural facilities, and becoming an important part of the future cultural center of Shanghai.

The architectural design is based on the concept of "the intersection of the sea and the land", with the curve symbolizing the ocean and the flatness symbolizing the land. The combination of the two implicitly indicates the geographical characteristics of Shanghai and conveys the inclusiveness of Shanghai culture. Instead of the common closed streamline design of museums, the museum has a closer connection with the urban space.

17 Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal Museum

Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China

image via Herzog & de Meuron

In 2019, Herzog&de Meuron won the Hangzhou Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal Museum competition, with a design that aims to reflect the importance of the Grand Canal in China's cultural and natural landscape and create a vibrant public gathering place on the canal.

Herzog& deMeuron said: "The space below the suspended museum is liberated by elevating the building by 12 metres to minimize contact with the ground, returning the ground space to the citizens and visitors of Hangzhou, and enclosing the liberated ground space with a veillike glass facade to form the spatial pattern of the banquet hall. While attracting varied large-scale events, we also invite more citizens and visitors to join us."

18 Shenzhen Natural History Museum

Shenzhen, China

image via Courtesy of 3XN

Shenzhen Natural History Museum is one of the "Ten Cultural Facilities in the New Era" in Shenzhen. Upon completion, it will be the first museum of natural history in Shenzhen, and also the first large-scale comprehensive museum of natural history in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and even South China. "Delta", the joint project of B+H, 3XN and Zhubo Design, won the design competition, and the museum is currently under construction.

The building is like a ribbon stretching from the earth, and the public garden extends from the ground to the roof, naturally inviting visitors to come up and enjoy the surrounding landscape, with the facade flowing like a waterfall.

19 Yellow River National Museum

Zhengzhou, Henan Province, China

image via ATCHAIN

The Yellow River is the cradle of the Chinese civilization. The Yellow River National Museum is located in the Yellow River Ecological Protection Zone in the north of Zhengzhou. The architectural scheme of the museum designed by gmp· Von · Gekang, Mag and Partners Architects is based on the winding landscape of the Yellow River. Blend in with the natural landscape.

The roof design, set off by the green landscape, extends the natural scenery of the national park to the roof platform, allowing visitors to view the majestic Yellow River to the north and the Zhengzhou skyline to the south.

20 Museum of Natural History

Copenhagen, Denmark

image via Lundgaard & Tranberg Arkitekter

In 2012, Lundgaard & Tranberg Arkitekter won an international competition for a new Natural History museum in Denmark, expected to open to the public in 2023.

Located in a botanical garden, the museum is based on the concept of "seamless", placing the main part of the building underground to connect the surrounding buildings and reorganize the landscape, merging with the topographical, animal and plant museums.

In one lifetime, we may not be able to see the whole world.

Fortunately, one museum after another opened a small window for us.