Simonetta Berruti |
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I was Born in Varese, (north of Italy, near Milano) I moved to Prato (Tuscany, near Florence) where I studied the classics and received my degree in antique literature in the archeological context.
At the same time I began to be interested in sculpture , at first guided by Leonetto Tintori, famous painter and restaurer of frescoes and successively from 1991, ceramics with the sculptor and potter Salvatore Cipolla.
In 1995 I founded together with other four ceramicists the group “Keramčia”, with which I exhibited in diverse cities.
From 1998 onwards I have continued the activity of sculptress and ceramicist on my own partcipating in solo and group exhibitions.
About my art concept, my sculptures must seem more natural as possible: the artistic works must be like a a natural object , shells , stones,a big grain of rice that to tear himself in the middle like in the sculpture "undici nove" ( nine eleven : eleventh of september). The artistic intervention must seems a secondary part respect to a work that must live for own tension.
The glazes used for these sculptures are all glazes fired in an oxidizing atmosphere in an electric oven at 1200 degrees.
The formula of the white glaze is formed by a composition, its major component is feldspathic sodium, calcium carbonate, magnesium carbonate, baric carbonate, zinc oxide and bentonite. From this base other coloured oxides are added at variable percentages ( cobalt oxides for blues and greys ) and oxides based on praseodymium and zirconium ( for yellows and greens).
The red – yellowish highlighting are the result of the addition of glazes derived from iron such as ilmenite and rutile which create a more “vibrant” and less dull effect on the surface. |
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