Fpassionate anthesious, ready to get involved. They are six artisans selected by Do for the “Ceramica” market exhibition at Villa della Porta Bozzolo. Artisan activity that lives a moment of great vitality.
Anna Resmini: “A creative training”
Anna Resmini, 38 years old, Milan. He met ceramics about ten years ago, at a time he worked intensely as illustrator for printed paper. “I needed a creative time slower, where you can lose and find. So I enrolled in a course of the Nibe space laboratory in Milan.
A dialogue was born immediately with ceramics, a living relationship». Anna Resmini creates everything by hand, without lathe, letting himself be guided by the subject. His is a free and a little anarchist style: «I prefer the abstract workswithout a precise function, and I let each piece take me by surprise ». There Ceramics is a teacher of life: «Teaches to welcome the failure. And to let go of control for space to the unexpected “.
Marina Bassani: “The antidote to the computer”
Marina Bassani, 36 years old, Milan. After Covid he left home and work in Rome and put himself in Journey for two and a half years. In Lisbon he discovered ceramic and from there he has followed by courses and workshops Around the world. Today works like product designer But he continues to carry on his passion.
«Spending many hours in front of a screenworking with my hands is fundamental for me. I don’t know if he can become a jobI certainly wouldn’t mind ». Love to experiment with different techniques and with materials like Terraglia and Grès: “I always do everything without premeditation. And in the end I wonder about the result ».
A creation of Marina Bassani.
Cecila Geminatti: “Of crafts you can live”
Cecila Geminatti, 27 years old, Turin. He discovered ceramic at the university: «Love at first sight. Being able transform my drawings In real objects he enchanted me. ” After studying in Interior Design in Turin and an experience in the manufacture of Ginori 1735, he chose to devote himself to this profession with rigor and passionenriching manual practice with Technical studies in Faenza.
Cecilia Geminatti, aka Circe.
Today it carries on the project Circewhere it unites chromatic research and formal experimentation: «The lathe is my favorite tool, but the colors are mine true obsession. I study them and combine them in ever new harmonies ». For her, ceramic is more than an object: «We build stories, Not just products. The challenge is to transmit the values who push us to do this job ».
Claudia Marzocchi: “I wanted to create something of mine”
Claudia Marzocchi, 37 years old, Bovisio Masciago. “At the start I decorated the vases that I bought, then I felt the need to create other forms ». Thus was born the path of Claudia Marzocchi, aka Clodiadecora, who started a model the clay In 2020 He learned alone, Reading, trying and wrong.
Claudia Marzocchi, aka Claudiadecora.
Above all use the Colombino technique“Slow and meditative”, assembling and shaping Cordoncini of clay. As well as in the laboratory works part-time in one recovery community: “A perfect interlocking, which fills my life.” Ceramics is a world to explore, without too many expectations: “I just want to continue creating.”
Chiara Zoppei: “Ceramics is my center”
Chiara Zoppei, 34 years old, Milan. “I’ve always loved work with your handsdraw, invent, repair. I took it from my mother, tireless creativeand from my father, clay expert. The attraction for the earth came natural to me ».
Chiara Zoppei gave birth to Zakiralab in 2019, transforming the passion for ceramic into a full -time work that includes production, teaching and exhibitions. Prefers terracotta and grès, between tradition and modernityand his style is a meeting between Ancient forms and contemporary influencesas in the vases of the “Arkaika” line: «They are my headless creatures. Inside there are Signs, words, emotions». In the rebirth of the ceramic sees an answer to the excess of digital life: «People are tired, seek moments for themselvesin which to get in touch with reality ».
Martina Zena: “My focus is the drawing”
Martina Zena, 36 years old, Milan. “Painting has always been mine main activitybut I had never tried to do it on the ceramic. Galeotta was a summer at the Aeolian, where I made a sign: from there the spark took place ». This is how Martina Zena started a path that combines painting, design and craftsmanship under the Zena brand.
Martina Zena, Founder of the Zena brand.
After studying at the Academy of Fine Arts and a residence in Fabrica, the Research Center of the Benetton Group, carries on a Hybrid language made of pictograms, signs and color. “I like to work on the white land as if it were a sheet, with pigments reminiscent of the watercolor.” He also holds workshops in which they decorate table set, He called them “wonderful thought”. “Ceramics is one Response to dematerialisation we live: it is land that takes Life with fire, water and air. Gives satisfactions ».