Florence Corbi

Florence Corbi is a French ceramicist, sculptor and porcelain artist. She lives and works in the south of France in the small village of Sabran. After studying drawing and painting at the Louvre School in Paris and ceramics and enameling techniques with masters from the Sèvres manufacture, she decided to devote herself to the art of sculpture. Since 2013, she mainly works with porcelain, creating unique sculptures.

Her works have been shown in multiple international exhibitions such as ICAA Lyon (2017), Beijing (2019), Cluj-Napoca (2019), Sèvres (2020), M&O Paris (2022), and Meissen (2024). She has been invited as an artist-in-residence in China: Dehua (2023) and Shangyu (2024). Her works have been acquired by major international institutions, including the Winland collection (Xiamen), the Shangyu ceramics museum, the French national collection (embassies in Tallinn and Beijing), and private collections. Winner of the Charles Malfray Grand Prix for Sculpture (Paris 2022), her work is part of, and revisits, the artistic tradition of porcelain sculpture developed in France since the 18th century.

“Inspired by Mediterranean mythologies and the interactions between the industry and nature, my creations are often built up from raw forms that evoke industrial production. Boxes, knotted fabrics, cardboard, cubes, etc. are reused in an upcycling process. These raw structures are fully wrapped in porcelain, over which I create a myriad of handmade, delicate motifs, freely inspired by plants, flowers, or corals. With their profusion, they express the energy of nature and the hope of its triumph, like so many precious stones of life set in the raw magma of forgotten abandoned objects.”

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