VASTUR

traditional craftsmanship with experimental approaches

Vastur is a contemporary design project founded by Argentine designer and artist Franco Bauducco. The brand exists at the intersection of fashion, object design, and conceptual art, exploring the tension between nature, technology, and the human body. Rooted in a philosophy of transformation, Vastur investigates how materials and the body can evolve beyond their conventional roles.

Rooted in a philosophy of transformation, Vastur investigates how materials can evolve beyond their conventional roles. Leather, metal, and organic forms merge to create pieces that feel both raw and refined — objects that carry a sense of ritual, mutation, and emergence.

Each piece is developed through a highly tactile process that combines traditional craftsmanship with experimental approaches. Garments and objects are conceived not only as products but as artifacts, embodying the dialogue between structure and instinct, control and accident.

The visual language of Vastur draws from botanical anomalies, metallic structures, and bodily forms, creating a universe where the artificial and the organic coexist as part of the same organism.

More than a fashion brand, Vastur functions as a living system — a space where clothing, jewelry, objects, and images form a unified symbolic world.

From Córdoba, Argentina, Vastur emerges as an evolving project dedicated to exploring new aesthetics of identity, transformation, and material intelligence.

Objects to wear, carry, and live with.

Within Vastur, what could traditionally be called “products” are understood as portable works.

These objects are conceived as pieces that exist between design and art.

While they carry a utilitarian function, they are also symbolic objects: artifacts meant to be worn, carried, or lived with.

Each portable work is created individually through a handcrafted exploratory process. Because of this approach, every piece is unique.

Vastur does not operate through mass production. Instead, pieces emerge from small capsules and collections, developed over time as part of the evolving universe of the brand. Once a piece is completed or a capsule is closed, it is rarely repeated.

More than products, these objects can be understood as amulets or contemporary artifacts — works that accompany the body and become part of the personal rituals of those who carry them.

Ofrenda 1 - Brazaletes Metal

Agosto 2025 - Alpaca 1/1

Ofrenda 11 - Brazaletes Metal

Sept 2025 - Alpaca 1/1

Ofrenda 111 - Chokers Metal

Nov 2025 - Alpaca - 1/1 - Ajustables.

Ofrenda 1v - Carteras Reliquia

Dic 2025 - Alpaca, Cuero Vacuno, Cierre YKK, Cadena Hierro- Trabajo en orfebreria y costuras a mano - 4 Modelos únicos.

Ofrenda v - Anillos 925

Dic 2025 - Plata 925 - Trabajo cera perdida - 5 anillos de 7gr. Ajustables.

Ofrenda v1 - Ceniceros

Dic 2025 - Cobre, Bronce, Alpaca - Tamaños varios.

The expanding universe of Vastur

This section gathers the visual works of Vastur — a body of artistic exploration that moves across different mediums and material worlds.

Developed by Argentine artist and designer Franco Bauducco, these works emerge from a transmaterial practice in which images, objects, and bodies become part of the same evolving system. Painting, photomontage, sculpture, performance, and experimental objects coexist as different manifestations of a single methodology.

At the core of this practice lies mutation, a process through which forms transform, hybridize, and migrate between the organic and the artificial.

Through what can be described as a cyborg-ritual aesthetic, Vastur explores the tension and coexistence between nature, technology, and the human body. Botanical anomalies, metallic structures, digital manipulation, and handcrafted elements converge to create visual organisms that exist between worlds.

Rather than belonging to a single discipline, these works inhabit multiple territories simultaneously. Images become objects, objects become symbols, and materials act as carriers of transformation. Together, they form the visual dimension of Vastur: an evolving artistic ecosystem where mutation, material intelligence, and ritual presence shape the language of the work.

Exordio

Fotomontaje digital

90x60cm

Técnica mixta - Enero 2026

Exordio marks the opening gesture of the Vastur universe, a visual body emerging from the fusion of different material worlds.

The image is constructed through a hybrid process where physical craft and digital manipulation converge. The gestures and fragments that compose the work originate from the artist’s own performative body, photographed while wearing chokers handcrafted through metalwork. These forged matter migrate into the digital plane, where they are fragmented and recomposed into a new organism.

At the center of the work, the throat expands and transforms into a symbolic structure. As the threshold between interior and exterior, it evokes communication as a site of tension: where voice, vulnerability, and power intersect.

Rather than hiding its construction, the piece reveals it. Visible cuts, abrupt transitions, and raw edges become part of the language of the image, embracing the idea of error as creative intelligence. The composition exists between softness and armor, medieval presence and technological glitch, control and fragility.

Through this convergence of body, metal, and digital assembly, Exordio proposes mutation as a method, a process where different temporalities and materialities fuse to generate a new visual organism.

VASTUR

Objects to wear, carry, and live with.

Ofrenda 1 - Brazaletes Metal

Ofrenda 11 - Brazaletes Metal

Ofrenda 111 - Chokers Metal

Ofrenda 1v - Carteras Reliquia

Ofrenda v - Anillos 925

Ofrenda v1 - Ceniceros

The expanding universe of Vastur

Exordio

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