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Maria Diletta Rondoni is an Italian artist based in Umbria.After graduating at the Academy of Fine Arts in Perugia in 2012-majoring in painting, she worked in different artisanal workshops specializing with different materials, such as ceramic, metal working and glass. She focused her interest in clay taking classes in the ceramic town of Deruta where she learned techniques such as hand-building,wheel throwing, Maiolica decorations, etruscan firing.
In 2017 she studied porcelain processes at the FACC-Faenza Art Ceramic Center, Faenza, Italy and in 2016 she set up her own ceramic studio where she developed her ceramic practice.
For the pastt two years she worked in Denmark as Studio Manager and Technician at Guldagergaard-International Ceramic Research Center.
The most important group exhibitions: Nature Imagined, at the Object Space, curated by Jane Jackson, Atlanta, USA; Collect Art Fair, with Cynthia Corbett Gallery London 2023, Young Masters Art Prize autumn exhibition, Gainsborough Hotel, London 2022; Herbarium Amoris-Claytopia summer exhibition at Guldagergaard international Ceramic Center, Skælskør 2022; Flora Danica, Apple House-Guldagergaard International Ceramic Research Center, Skælskør, Denmark, 2021; Matres, International Festival of Ceramics for Women, Ceramics Museum of Deruta, Perugia, 2019; XI International Exhibition for Ceramic Artists, Third Prize Winner, Museo Muda, Albissola Marina, Savona, 2018; No Place Space 4, Spazio Ex Ceramiche Vaccari, Santo Stefano di Magra, Sarzana, 2018; Evolving, Galleria ArtEspressione, Milano, 2014.
Her artworks belong to private collections, in Italy and abroad.
Masterclass INSIDE NATURE/Secret Fruits
All my works take inspiration from the observation of nature. I usually walk in the countryside where I live and get inspiration by the landscape around me, looking to keep in my mind the colors and the shapes of the elements of nature. Sometimes can be a seed, a fruit, a flower, a coloured leaf. They express fragility and changes and I try to record the emotion that they give to me into the clay, taking care of details. I would love to give voice to the sensual power of nature as the origin of life, trying to create a sort of imaginary, fantastic and corporeal herbarium. In the process I always discover a little bit of myself.
In this workshop we will focus on building a little porcelain “Fruit-Sculpture” taking inspiration from some shapes and colors of nature. The participants will learn how:
to create a natural shape starting from a sketch and using the pinch and coil
and slab technique
to mix the pigments in to the porcelain in different percentage
to turn colored slip into colored dough and create a personal dough colors
palette
to work with tiny porcelain elements and adding them to the shaped body.
We will focus on details working slowly , listen to the creativity flow and ourself... Going inside nature...
Workshop Program:
1st Day (Friday, 7th March 2025)
9:00-16:00 with one hour lunch break
9:00-10:00: Presentation of my work, inspirational subjects, materials, technique, the importance of colors and emotions
10:00-11:00: We will observe some natural fruits, pay attention to the surface texture, shape and colors and the participants will create drawings to visualize the secret fruit thinking about the shape (opened or closed shape) and the personal color palette
11:00-13:00: Porcelain Instruction: Which kind of clay it is and understand how to use this material- tip for hand-building
Building demonstration: Pinch and coil and slab / How to use newspaper to give the body structure, preparing a porcelain slab and give shape to it. Pinch and coil basic rules.
13:00-14:00: Lunch break
14:00-16:00: Taking as referent point the sketches I will follow the participants building
their secret fruits.
2nd Day (Saturday, 8th March 2025)
9:00-17:00 with one hour lunch break
9:00-10:00: Pigments on porcelain / Demonstration: How to grind the dry porcelain and add pigments on it with several percentage getting three colors in gradations.
10:00-13:00: The participants will create their owns coloured porcelain dough.
13:00-14:00: Lunch Break
14:00-17:00: Using the prepared coloured dough the participant will create little elements as seeds to fill or decorate the fruit sculpture. At the end the teacher will give drying instructions and firing steps instructions.
Participants are provided with all materials, tools and vegetarian meals every day of the workshop.
The workshop will take place in the Ogród Sztuk ceramics studio, ul. Krasińskiego 8, local 200, cage VI, 01-601 Warszawa.
Language of the workshop: English, but Polish translation will be made if necessary.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
ul. Krasińskiego 8 lok. 200, 01-601 Warsaw, Poland, ulica Zygmunta Krasińskiego 8, 01-601 Żoliborz, Polska,Warsaw, Poland
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