Into white with mindfulness and porcelain
- Angelica focuses on transformation and identity in her porcelain works
- Research and experimentation with materials are central to her craft practice
- Her sculptures are characterised by fluid forms and textured glazes
While working as a young engineer, Angelica Lucchetti was diagnosed with a serious illness and began to question the life choices she had made. "I felt that something was missing, a deeper connection with myself and the world around me," she recalls. After a first encounter with clay, Angelica decided to dedicate herself fully to ceramics and teaching. "Through ceramics, I learned to embrace the beauty of imperfection and enjoy the present moment," she says. Now a porcelain artist and mindfulness teacher, through her works and courses, Angelica shares her values on reconnecting. Her collections are at the crossroads between function and elevating the experience of spaces through art. Her sculptural porcelain works are characterised by fluid and evanescent forms, which convey a sense of transformation.
Interview
- What is your material of choice?
- Porcelain, both for its aesthetic characteristics such as colour, translucency and thinness, and as a metaphor of rebirth and of silence. I am struck by the duality of this apparently fragile material, which in reality is the most resistant among the ceramic materials. It is also interesting on a tactile level.
- How are clay and mindfulness connected in your view?
- They developed in parallel and organically, after I was diagnosed with a serious illness in 2017. An introspective journey of listening to myself began, which led to a turning point. I then felt the need to formalise and transmit the value of working with clay.
- In history of art, are there any points of reference that are important to you?
- Kandinsky, both for colour and for abstraction. It is not necessary to describe everything, one must leave the door open to interpretation. In my sculptures transformation is crucial as a metaphor for human suffering transforming into something else, and the suspended elements indicate the aspects of identity that escape definition.
- Have you developed new techniques or solutions?
- It is difficult to innovate when working within a thousand-year-old tradition, but I am fascinated by experimentation and interested in putting together different materials. For example I use a steel wire, that resists high-temperature, or a gauze soaked in porcelain.
Angelica Lucchetti is a rising star: she began her career in 2021 and she started teaching in 2021
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