Maria Diletta Rondoni: Selected works, 2021-2023
My works take shape through the rhythmic motion of repeated movements that absorb me in a slow creative flow. The starting point is always the vase, as an empty object ready to contain and be contained within everyday life.
I use few tools, sometimes only my fingertips, through the basic process of pinch and coil construction, an original and primitive technique that transports me directly into a timeless dimension. I love paying attention to detail and creating my own palette of pigmented clays, thinking of my work as a three-dimensional painting.
The metamorphosis and permutation of nature is where I take my inspiration, observing its movements and changes, its strength and fragility, trying to give voice to its sensual power as the origin of life.
The vase is despoiled of its functional appearance to create a kind of imaginary, fantastic and corporeal herbarium.
Captions
- Multifolia Variegata I, 2023, porcelain, pigments, glaze, 25x25x28 cm.
- Multifolia Rosa, 2023, porcelain, pigments, glaze, 20x20x19 cm.
- Gemma – Blue bud, 2022, porcelain, pigments, 16x7x29 cm.
- Gemma – Green bud, 2022, porcelain, pigments, 18x18x36 cm.
- Gemma – Red and blue bud, 2022, porcelain, pigments, glaze, 25x25x28 cm.
- Passion fruit – Red, 2022, terracotta, brown earthenware, glaze, 16x16x15 cm.
- Passion fruit – Rose, 2022, earthenware, pigments, glaze, 20x14x14 cm.
- Passion fruit – Yellow, 2022, earthenware, pigments, glaze, 19x14x13 cm.
- Finger lemon and little passion fruit, 2021-22, porcelain, glass, soda wood firing, terracotta, glaze, 4x4x20 cm and 4x4x12,4 cm.
- Multifolia Variegata II, 2023, porcelain, pigments, glaze, 16x17x36 cm.
- Flora Danica / Phacelia Flower, 2021, stoneware, pigments, glaze, 26x25x46 cm.
- Flora Danica / Pink Lupinus, 2021, stoneware, pigments, glaze, 40x40x80 cm.
- Crisantemo, 2022, stoneware, pigments, glaze, 40x40x26 cm.
- Grande Frutto, 2022, stoneware, pigments, glaze, 39x25x41 cm.
- Lupinus Blue, 2022, earthenware, pigments, glaze, 13x13x23 cm
- Tulip, 2022, stoneware, engobes, glaze, 26x28x35 cm.
- Lupinus Yellow, 2022, earthenware, pigments, glaze, 15x15x28 cm
