The ceramics of Paola Staccioli are one-off pieces in terms of shape and decoration. The articles displayed in the show combine reduced dimensions with a potent magnetic presence and a throbbing physicality that emerges from who knows what psychic recesses. We find ourselves drawn into an intriguing, poetic world recounted through pure and enchanted eyes.
The teapots serve for everything – to make us dream, or recall a fairytale, a trip or a person – except for tea: abandoning completely the functional aspect that their name indicates, they become the recipients of a pure aesthetic pleasure.
The special atmosphere that hovers around the creations of Paola Staccioli is further accentuated by the unexpected details that create a sort of magic realism.
The artist was born in Florence in 1972 and after studies in the humanities graduated in 1999 with a thesis on a theatrical text by Dickens. The decision to devote herself to pottery came later, as the natural conclusion of a process that, over the years, brought her close to the applied arts (batik, glass) in quest of interesting substrata to her decorative vision.