Alessio Monti

For Alessio Monti, "Breaking the mold" represents a conscious overcoming of predefined ceramic traditions. His work departs from conventional paths to embrace an innovative approach, where the vase ceases to be a mere container and becomes a narrative of rupture and rebirth. For Monti, innovating means reaching beyond the expectations of the material, seeking a beauty that resides in imperfection and uniqueness.

The ceramicist’s research manifests a clear desire to transcend technical barriers and limits. Thinking differently allows Alessio Monti to distance himself from classical ceramic languages: his works do not follow established patterns but are born from a creative act that challenges the material itself. Each vase is the result of divergent thinking that transforms earth into a hyper realistic visual experience.

In the creative process of "Breaking the mold," destroying a pre-existing pattern does not mean erasing it, but elevating it to a new meaning. Monti’s works maintain an ancestral link to their origin, while evolving into unprecedented forms that appear sculpted by light. Through a tenebrist aesthetic, volumes emerge from deep shadows, revealing extreme textural details and surfaces that carry the weight of time and the strength of the fracture.

Alessio Monti personally collects most of his raw materials in the places he frequents and to which he is deeply attached, processing the gathered clay to make it workable according to his vision. His process is defined by time and curiosity: a phase of waiting that becomes a ritual, ensuring the constant experimentation visible in each of his creations.

Monti’s works present themselves as archaeological finds re-emerging from a necessary and fertile darkness. Through the skillful use of oxides, slips, and glazes based on wood ash, the ceramicist intervenes on the matter with cracks and fissures, giving the vases the soul of an object that has traveled through eras to tell its story in the present.