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ANTONELLA CIMATTI
Antonella Cimatti
was born in 1956 in Faenza. One of Carlo Zauli’s pupils at the Istituto
Statale d’Arte per la Ceramica (State School of Ceramics) in Faenza,
she went on to obtain a degree with distinction from the Accademia di
Belle Arti (Fine Arts Academy) in Bologna. She completed the following
training internships abroad: Doban Decoration Technique (Toki-Gifu,
Japan, 1981), Porcelain Filigree (Limoges, France, 1985) and Jewerly
Design (Portsmouth, Great Britain, 1988). She has been teaching Ceramic
Design at the Istituto Statale d’Arte per la Ceramica (State School of
Ceramics) in Faenza since 1979. She has also taught for brief periods,
through projects such as “Artist Fellowship Exchange, European
Communities” in Art and Design Schools in Portsmouth, England, in 1991
and at Turnhout in Belgium in 1995. From 1982 to 1986 she was involved
in various artistic research movements which were theorized about by
art critics including: “A Tempo e a Fuoco” by Vittorio Fagone and Gian
Carlo Bojani, and “De Sculptura” with Filiberto Menna; she has also
taken part in numerous exhibitions throughout Italy and abroad with the
group “La Nuova Ceramica” curated by Franco Solmi. In addition, since
1986, she has been designing in collaboration with Ceramica Flavia of
Montelupo Fiorentino, Murano and Empoli (objects and lamps in glass),
the old Fabbrica Casa Museo “Giuseppe Mazzotti 1903” in Albisola
Marina, the Liverani-Spadoni Studios as well as with Laura Silvagni in
Faenza. And is currently showing and competing in Italy and abroad
(France, Spain, Slovenia, Russia, South Korea, Australia, China),
winning awards and acknowledgments, the most prestigious being the
Silver Prize, “The 4th World Ceramic Biennale 2007 Korea International
Competition”. Her works have been published in Ceramics Art &
Perception n° 70, Antonella Cimatti Between Art Research &
Technology and in New Ceramics n° 4 “ 2010, Antonella Cimatti and
light. Recently she has been invited to participate in “2009 Nanfeng
Kiln International Ceramic Work Camp” in Foshan, Guangdong, China,
where she created a sculpture using paperclay. In 2010 she has been
invited in “paperclay TODAY Artist Symposium”, in Laguna Beach,
California and in the show “2010 Second International Biennial
Exhibition of Contemporary Teapot Art”, Shanghai, China , and “Ceramica
storia di donne, Tradizione e attualitą a Faenza”, MIC Museo
Internazionale delle Ceramiche, in Faenza, Italy. She is member of
World Crafts Council - Europe. |
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