Insula coffee table | JUSTINO DEL CASAR

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Insula coffee table is a sculptural coffee table by Justino Del Casar, named after the Latin word for island. Its irregular, organic top spreads like a landmass rising from the sea, resting on sculpted legs that grow out of the body itself rather than simply supporting it from below.

The surface is densely pitted and cratered, evoking volcanic rock and coastlines shaped by erosion. Light catches on the relief of the top and sinks into the hollows, giving the deep black body a mineral, almost geological presence. Seen from different angles, the silhouette shifts between table and landscape, occupying space as a functional sculpture rather than a conventional piece of furniture.

Made from recycled black paper pulp and wood through the artist's self-taught technique rooted in papier-mâché and cartapesta, the piece is hand-modelled, air-dried, carved, sanded and polished. What was once discarded becomes a monumental object, positioning Insula between contemporary sculpture, sustainable art and collectible design.


Artist: Justino Del Casar
Dimensions: L143 × W107 × H39 cm
Materials: Recycled paper pulp, Wood
Year: 2025
Signed and certified by the artist

Insula coffee table is a sculptural coffee table by Justino Del Casar, named after the Latin word for island. Its irregular, organic top spreads like a landmass rising from the sea, resting on sculpted legs that grow out of the body itself rather than simply supporting it from below.

The surface is densely pitted and cratered, evoking volcanic rock and coastlines shaped by erosion. Light catches on the relief of the top and sinks into the hollows, giving the deep black body a mineral, almost geological presence. Seen from different angles, the silhouette shifts between table and landscape, occupying space as a functional sculpture rather than a conventional piece of furniture.

Made from recycled black paper pulp and wood through the artist's self-taught technique rooted in papier-mâché and cartapesta, the piece is hand-modelled, air-dried, carved, sanded and polished. What was once discarded becomes a monumental object, positioning Insula between contemporary sculpture, sustainable art and collectible design.


Artist: Justino Del Casar
Dimensions: L143 × W107 × H39 cm
Materials: Recycled paper pulp, Wood
Year: 2025
Signed and certified by the artist

About the artist

JUSTINO DEL CASAR

Justino Del Casar is a Spanish sculptor (Madrid, 1971) whose work reflects on the fleetingness of consumer production and the dignifying power of art. Trained at the Escuela de Artes y Oficios Artísticos in Toledo, he treats each piece as an act that quietly restores value to what consumption discards.

In Valencia, he spent years developing his own technique, reducing paper to pulp and remolding it by hand into dense, load-bearing forms, a process that has since become the foundation of his practice. His materials are the objects society turns into symbolic waste: lottery tickets, philosophy exams, court rulings, banking documents, packaging, and propaganda. Through an entirely manual process, he transforms these discarded materials into timeless sculptural pieces, charged with the memory of those who discarded them.

His forms explore the passage of time, fusing anthropomorphism with echoes of ancient, hand-shaped utensils. They challenge consumerist logic and restore the human being above the very objects it produces and discards. Each piece is unique, made entirely by hand, holding the tension between what is fleeting and what endures, resisting a culture that treats everything as disposable.

Since 2013 he has developed, in his studio in Valencia, symbolic and functional sculptural work guided by a simple conviction: consumption is fleeting, the human being endures.

As an artist represented by BLANCONEGRO BARCELONA, Justino Del Casar continues to explore new frontiers, creating works that speak to contemporary experience while grounding themselves in the timelessness of art history.


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