Les impressions #7

Among all the media I experimented, ceramic is the one that let me express myself the most. In particular I work with porcelain Paper Clay, a mix between porcelain and paper, a real ceramic technique that allows great freedom and enabled me to find a new and personal way to express myself. All my work concerns fragility and lightness. It's a non-conceptual approach that investigates the chances of the material, leading to its extreme consequences. I also want to develop a reasoning about archetypical forms of everyday objects (vase, bowl, plate...), looking for a mimesis process that turns the nature of the object in something different.
The “Les impressions” vases are shaped on a balloon, obtaining different shapes any time. The base is obtained with a slab. The porcelain is colored in bulk and added on the balloon with a brush. then the pieces are fired at 1260° C. in an electric kiln. This vases want to be icons of European cultural heritage. Impressionism, expressionism, abstractionism and other suggestions of the European modern art of the last century came out from this works as if they were a coffer of precious values.