Quadtych of carved miniatures on white paper, creating compositions of bas-reliefs that recall combinations of spiral forms and round shapes that can be imagined as a stellar galaxy.
Height 34 cm
Width 86 cm
Domitilla Biondi's craft is a spontaneous expression of holistic personal growth. She graduated in Graphic Design in 1996 and after her father’s premature death, felt that something was changing. In order to heal many aspects of her life, she abandoned her previous career as Interaction Designer and graduated in Sound Healing. When visiting an exhibition of Ellen Gallagher in London in 2013, she saw paintings made by scraping paper on itself. “The use of scraping and cutting, rather than painting with colours, came to me like an epiphany. So I started experimenting with a surgical blade on paper and discovered that I can express visually the harmony that I play, on the other hand, with therapeutic singing bowls.” In 2019 she set herself the goal to sculpt the thinnest porcelain possible, thinner than 1 mm. Since then her endeavours have continued to bring healing techniques, paper creations and digital processes into collision with each other.
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Quadtych of carved miniatures on white paper, creating compositions of bas-reliefs that recall combinations of spiral forms and round shapes that can be imagined as a stellar galaxy.
Height 34 cm
Width 86 cm
Photo: © Domitilla Biondi
Embrace is a series of vessels, each one different from the other. Each vessel is characterised by a sculpted sheet of white porcelain, thinner than 1 mm, applied on a vase of about 19 cm height, of various thicknesses. Biondi is researching the dialogue between the two parts, that only fire completes by making visible the distortions that the different parts create among themselves.
Height 19 cm
Diameter 7 cm
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Embrace is a series of vessels, each one individual, yet they have in common the characteristic that each vessel is composed of a sculpted sheet of white porcelain, thinner than 1 mm, applied on a vase of about 19 cm height, of various thicknesses. Each vessel turns out to be different and unpredictable, and Biondi’s aim is to arrive to match them together into a perfectly shaped equilibrated embrace.
Height 13 cm
Diameter 5.5 cm
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Round shaped white paper, carved in bas-relief miniatures in the form of fractals spiralling from the centre to the outside, with a mandala’s structure. The Magnifico series (18 pieces only) is part of the “Love Life Light in Armonia spirituality of the new millennium”: a series of art objects which bring poetry of beauty into practices through the re-thinking of iconic religious objects.
Diameter 52 cm
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A round shaped white paper, carved in bas-relief miniatures in the form of a Fibonacci spiral geometry (cochlea). The Magnifico series (18 pieces only) is part of the “Love Life Light in Armonia spirituality of the new millennium”: a series of art objects which bring poetry of beauty into practices through the re-thinking of iconic religious objects.
Diameter 27 cm