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Paola Paronetto
Paola Paronetto
Paola Paronetto
Paola Paronetto
Paola Paronetto

Paola Paronetto

Ceramist - Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy

Born in Pordenone in 1965, Paola Paronetto has dedicated her life to pushing the boundaries of ceramics, both as a medium and as an art form. Paronetto innovative interpretation of ancient clay-making is rooted in her experiences in Gubbio, Deruta, Faenza, Florence and Vicenza where she honed her craft. Her constant experimentation is driven by the beauty of nature and the simplicity of forms. Her most recent artistic endeavor is paper clay, a blend of paper pulp, natural fibers, and clay that results in a unique texture with a delicate and tactile quality.

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Everything happens in the ceramic workshop immersed in nature where Paola takes care of the creation of each object, safeguarding within the walls of her atelier the secrets of a technique that by nature eludes the rules.

A spontaneous connection brings together the poetic essence of her objects and the enchanting atmosphere of the Italian landscape.

Creative complicities, affinities and wonderful dissonances mingle in a micro-world that revolves around the magic of the artistic gesture.

All this is reflected in Paola's creativity, which, just as in her workshop, tells of a beauty that also knows how to indulge in labile balances, imperfections and asymmetries.

Paronetto's work from here takes its own path and is now distributed across the globe, contributing to making Italian style known throughout the world.

Paola follows with passion and concentration every stage of this journey of artwork, shapes and colours with a recognisable and unique artistic signature, and yet always evolving.

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Once again, it is the shapes of nature that inspire the new collection of paper clay objects created by Paola Paronetto. The image of buttercups, with their generous crowns and dancing stems, suggests small daring structures and imaginative balances that acknowledge, as always in Paola's work, imperfections, asymmetries and irregularities. Forcing the limits of the material as she loves to do, Paola bends her technique to rotundity, creating a family of objects that have the grace of a wild flower and the sanctity of a chalice. As light and thin as paper, yet full-bodied and sculptural, they are born of alchemies that are impossible to replicate, so that each has its own soul and a small creative story to tell. Then there are the colours, which Paola conceives as full and opaque, free to interpret the shapes imaginatively, almost always inspired by the natural universe, sometimes by the world of fantasy. It incites the desire to mix shapes and colours in the most variegated and spontaneous way, just as they occur so wonderfully in nature.

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