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Clay & fire clay
Engobes, layers of glazes, cobalt oxide, coloured fire-clay slips
Fired in an electric kiln at 955° & 1050°
H. 28 x dia. 15 cm
From the FUNGHI series:
"I love Funghi, I'm emotionally attached to their world. I still remember the great connection with nature I had when as a child i went mushroom picking with my dad. Funghi are Popicons: there are people who collect them, some love to eat them, some heal themselves through their power and everybody has somehow a childhood memory of “fungi”.
"They sometimes turned out to be “brutal” , their stems are crooked, their hats are incomplete, their surfaces have bubbles or scratches, but beauty lies in this forms of what we call imperfection which in reality or in my personal opinion is the real uniqueness and beauty of nature."
"Since 2018 I’ve made more than 100 different shapes and every time I try to make them different."
For the solo collection 'Unexpected Connections':
"Ceramic is often a metaphor of life,It requires to be in the moment, paying attention to the present, being fully absorbed in thepractice, embracing the mistakes - imperfection. I cant control the whole process and this is one of the reason I'm so into it. Every time I make a new collection I crave for something new to come up, in terms of shape, forms, volumes, decoration, colours and effects."
"The infinite possibilities and the choices we make: I've tried sometimes to stay faithful to the first idea, to make a project, to draw the final pieces and plan how they will look. Then throughout the process I always choose not to follow that project, I mean the first intentions arrive at the end, but the form changes,every single time. No matter how hard I try to follow what I had in mind at the beginning, the final piece will be something different. The fact that at some point I’m have so many possibilities will lead me to choose a combination which I couldn’t have thought of at the beginning of the process. The same goes for living where of course we also have plans and destinations but it is the journey and what happens in between which we can not control and that leads to different results."
"It’s a constant exercise to follow your own rules, your instinct, your personal aesthetics. which now-a-days is not so obvious. Inspiration is divided and can be taken both from the digital world and the real world surrounding us. Sometimes I’m not even aware of the impact that both have on my tastes/creativity. The hardest thing is when working to stay authentic to yourself and trying to make works that are expressions only of your idea of beauty."
"Some pieces are left dried with a small amount of handwork, for example using fingerprints as brushes in a Fauve like movement; some others are engraved with few tools, but in an obsessive and repetitional mode. Engraved patterns are another ingredient, together with clays, volumes, shapes, glazes, oxides and barbotines."
"I think there is an anthropomorphic sense especially within the mushrooms pieces, they can look superb/proud, or vain or satisfied like a human being. Probably my works are at a teenage phase, where they are more worries abut the aesthetic than the substance, maybe someday they will be more focused on the essence and they will become even conceptual."
"I sometimes feel guilty of not delivering any significant messages through my sculptures, this is the main reason I find it hard to see myself as an artist. On the other hand, it took me years to consider myself a real artisan but the lack of an academic background had given me the chance to dare in doing whatever came up to mind. I guess my real objective here is to be surprised like a child every single time I open the kiln." Lucia Zamberletti, June 2024
About Lucia Zamberletti
"My approach to ceramic has been raw and pure with an urgent need to create with my own hands after several years of working in the fashion system as a product developer. I love to observe nature and live surrounded by it. Witnessing the changing of the seasons leaves me with many impressions of natural life which I transform into sculptural pieces."
"I like to manipulate the clay, pay attention to its suggestions and live in the present. I often ride the wave of intuition and pleasure and make joyful pieces that spread an idea of beauty. I like to think that they can speak for themselves despite of who I am and where I come from.“
"I also value imperfection which is a distinctive concept both in nature and in ceramics, I like to underline it in my works because it is how I mostly feel as a human being.”
"I use both an electric kiln firing at low temperatures: 950°- 980°- 1020°- and a raku kiln firing mainly at 920°- 950°; I like to experiment with layers of glazes and mixing them up with engobes and oxides in order to obtain different colour combinations of which I'm pretty obsessed."
Lucia Zamberletti is an Italian ceramic artist who has shown her work across Europe and in the USA.
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