Eugenio Michelini
The focus of my interest lies in the optical quality and material potential of colour, based on theories of light and perception. I enrich simple shapes and patterned surfaces with slips and glazes. My impaired hearing condition compels me to rely on a colour palette that ‘listens’ to my personal relationship with the object, its optical movements, textures, surface, shape and material, which are complementary to the object itself. The observation of nature, my memories and the dynamism and animation found in mannerist and baroque styles of decoration are my major inspirations.