THE SHAPES OF PORCELAIN | Etra Masi
18-19-20 October 2024
Multi-technical course on Liquid and body porcelain.
Porcelain is a material with many qualities: transparency, whiteness, hardness; to enhance them is to have understood its nature. In this course, different techniques will be addressed, the first step towards being able to move freely within the production processes of porcelain.
Casting, plastic modelling, moulding and glazing are the bases from which both objects of use and sculptural masses can be created. Porcelain in liquid form and in the plastic state will be worked with or without the aid of plaster moulds into small shapes, analysing for each phase: time, criticality and potential.
Each participant, at the end of the course, will have broadened and clarified his or her knowledge of the physical and technical properties of ‘white gold’ and will be able to choose the working method most suited to his or her imagination.
Etra Masi
He graduated in Sculpture from the Academy of Fine Arts in Naples, where he expanded on the theme of “contaminations” and investigated the relationship between sculpture and architecture. When he arrived in Faenza in 2015, he came into contact with the ceramic tradition, deepening his knowledge of craft techniques. Porcelain becomes his material of choice, he builds his sculptures by modelling them by hand, everything revolves around the enhancement of the tactile dimension, the gesture writes the sign.
Her work is featured at trade fairs, exhibitions and international art competitions. In 2021 she is selected for The Blanc de Chine International Ceramic Art Award in Hangzhou Winland Center, China; in 2019 she receives an Honourable Mention for the International Biennial of Ceramic Art of Aveiro, Portugal.
The 20-hour workshop lasts from 9.00 to 17.00 on Friday and Saturday and from 9.00 to 16.00 on Sunday.
Included in the Workshop cost:
20 hours of teaching | all the necessary materials | firings | nr. 3 brunch lunch | a box with the samples of the materials used during the workshop
Teacher: Etra Masi
Languages: English, Italian
Download the full program in pdf
To confirm your inscription you have to make a bank transfer of a deposit or the total
amount.
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