Expression of balance
From Venetian descent, cabinetmaking was passed on to us from father to son for generations.
From a young age I discovered a passion for clay, which encouraged me to merge the art of gilding on furniture with gilding on ceramic, thus perpetuating the family tradition in a new way.
Clay, the ecological heritage of Gaia, has enabled me, as a human being, to grasp by chance or by assiduous research, the many possibilities of interpretation of form and function up to the spiritually symbolic elevation.
For me, the three-dimensional shape with a human anatomical reference is a canvas allowing me to dress the subject with a palette of pigment expressing a multitude of sensory messages.
My many trips and immersion stays with artists from all continents have contributed to give my creations deep references, which vibrate strings linked to our ancestral memories.
From the Italian Renaissance, I borrow oxidants on bronze or silver foil, from ancient China, lacquered varnishes that create the shades of a depth where the eye gets lost in iridescence.
From the sky, I borrow at dawn the shimmer of the blue hour and at half-light the intensity of its flaming reds.
It was in the encounter, exchange and communion that I met multiple mentors who generously gave me this knowledge of the subject, thus feeding my discoveries through oral and visual learning.
From the fusion of innumerable techniques developed over forty-five years, pieces of which the unfathomable surfaces owe nothing to the conventional glaze are born.
From journey to journey, to the conquest of a know-how, whose writings cannot render the depth of the gesture in all its representation, in the evolution of what we are at the ephemeral passage of our lives.
Physics and alchemy, the famous process of ceramics, the testimony of the past is thus sealed by the fusion of matter.
It is by mastering execution, with rudimentary techniques, that the emergence of all cultures inhabiting our planet has been able to express the very meaning of what makes up our multifaceted differences according to our geographical origins.
7500 years separates me from the neolothic potter ancestors. Yet it is the same gesture of the shaping of the dove that I repeat, the same pigments that I use, his earth and burnt shadow, the dark reds of the vases of Hacilar and the black jais of the ceramicists of Cilicia.
It is accidentally that over time, I have accumulated an understanding of the different possibilities allowing me to focus my research on mastering my mistakes.
Today, the sum of what has been learned and what has been acquired leads me to explore the malleability of matter in the search for its breaking point while maintaining intact its balance point.
Les Ambassadrices
Ces petites pièces qui donne un avant goût, l’élan pour découvrir, souvent porteuse de message d’amitié, d’amour et de reconnaissance. Facile à loger, elles transforment l’espace et sous l’effet de la lumière nous révèle ses subtilités dans la profondeur de la couleur.
