Antonella Cimatti: Refined poetry of porcelain and light

Antonella cimatti is a ceramics artist who lives in Faenza, Italy. She has been teaching Design at the G Ballardini Art Institute of Ceramics without interruption since 1979. During her own studies there, she met and studied under of some of the greatest Italian maestros such as Angelo Biancini and Carlo Zauli, which was the beginning of a long list of some formative experiences for her. Following these studies, she went on to graduate from the Fine Arts Academy in Bologna. Even in her youth she understood the importance of travel and of learning from other cultures and ways of making art. Ballardini's openness to foreign artists has made it a contemporary melting pot, as it has always been attended by many foreign students and the teachers have often been invited abroad for workshops and conferences. Cimatti's knowledge of creative processes and the idea of comparing techniques has led her to experience these first hand at different times: in Toki - Gifu, Japan, for Doban decoration technique; in Limoges, France, for porcelain; in Portsmouth, England for jewellery design; and in Turnhout, Belgium, for graphic design.