porcellane italiane

This project was born in 2009 and still continues. The idea: to use a pop icon such as the heart, reinterpreting it in the form of a vase, with anatomical references and a strongly Italian character. “In alto i cuori”, translation from Latin “Sursum Corda”, is an installation of porcelain wall elements, designed and handmade by ELICA Studio. The heart is the organ that every human being cannot do without, even in a figurative sense because no one can live without love. The collection today includes 65 different versions but the project foresees 90, as many as the numbers of the Neapolitan Smorfia....

l.“As the lily among thorns”, Song of Solomon, 2 (KJV) 2. An heart shaped amulet for an everlasting and happy love 3. “I split myself in 4 parts” Is an idiomatic Italian expression, which means that I do my utmost to give you satisfaction 4. “A rose is a rose is a rose is a rose”, Gertrude Stein, Sacred Emily 5. Masculine and feminine “cromosomically” together 7. Fly wherever your heart leads you 8.“Praesent.ia tua calorem dedit meo nido” - Your presence has warmed my nest 9. Unhounded love

10. “Cupio omnia quae vis”: a quote from The Intruder, in imitation of Horace, book I, satire IX of the Ser-mones by the latin poet Horace, it means: “1 wish you all the tilings you want” 11. Forbidden love 12. “Penso che un giorno cost non ritorni mai pill”, from Volare, song by italian singer Domenico Modugno 13. “Love, which does not allow whoever is loved not to love back”. Inferno, the Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri 14. “Knock knock knocki’on heaven’s door”, Bob Dylan 15. Heart of earth 16. Hanging around you... l7.Quote from the homonymous neapolitan song wrote by Alessandro Sisca 18....

26 - RARA NIGRA AVIS 19. Each snout is nice to his mom 20. Bound to you 21. Forget-me-not 22. Be positive, and think how much 1 love you 23. “You are my baby sparrow” is a tender italian expression 24. Full of love 25. Yoifre my aphrodisiac 26. Rarer than a black swan 27. A garden full of passion

28. Rarer than a white blackbird 29. Like flies on honey 30. “The heart lias its reason which reason does not know”, Blaise Pascal 31. As deep as the ocean 32. Fly wherever your heart leads you 34. Sott stinging love 35. Love is old like the world 36. The two sides of love 37. Lovestruck

“As the lily among thorns”. Song of Solomon, 2, (KJV)

38. Positive and negative: two opposite poles attracting each other 39. The dirac Equation: two people that etblish a connection will continue to influence each other even if they are distant miles of light-years 40. In Italian “ratto” means both “rat” and “rapture” (of love) 41. Dragon of Love 42. Love hunter 44. “I hate and 1 love. Why I do this, perhaps you ask? 1 don’t know, but 1 feel it happening and 1 am tormented” [...]”, Catulio, carme LXXXV 45. “As the lily among thorns”. Song of Solomon, 2, (KJ V) 46. Stuck in my mind 47. King/Queen of my heart

“I give you the supreme dominion over hunting”,inscription, Diana room, Reggia di Venaria, Turin

48. House oflove 49. “Open your heart”. Madonna, 1986 50. “Chain of fool”, Aretha Franklin 51. Fragile souvenir for a lasting love 52. Love, like life, exists in time 53. “I give you the supreme dominion over hunting” inscription, Diana room, Reggia di Venaria, Turin 54. “Out of sight, out of mind”, song by Italian singer Sergio Endrigo 55. Construction oflove 56. “Lovers, like bees, want a life as sweet as honey”, hexameter painted in the Lovers’ House, Pompeii.

57. “...One hundred suckers I’ll attach to you and we’ll dance together this octopus of love”, Vinicio Capossela 58. “Unable are the Loved to die, tor Love is immortality”, Emily Dickinson, (809) 59. An ecological trap: 1 attract you and never ever let you go 60. Like the borracho pole, drunk on your love 61. Love seal

62. And so we went out to see the stars again 63. Pure and willing to rise to the stars 64. The love that moves the sun and the other stars

H-66 OMNIA H-67JELLI 65. Love that rise renewed and reborned 66. Love overcomes all. Publio Virgilio Marone, Bucoliche X,69 67. Let yourself go in the flow of love

Celebrating the human body by dissecting it. The human body as a great system of signs and symbols. We are expression, beyond words and gestures . A perspective of the flesh in which certain parts become containers. Here then are hands and feet, and teeth made into porcelain with a figurative "dissection": not containers of nerves, veins, bones, blood but of ideas and messages. Consciousness of man as architecture, as column, capital, but also as vase, a relationship between reality and appearance that we are still trying to resolve.

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BLACK HALO

“And this our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tonguesin trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything” William Shakespeare A collection of hand-made uniques. Every form, every decoration depends on the personal handiness of the artist. The imperfections are an added value and make every item similar but never identical to the others. Anemones, unlikely corals, the concept of a rose and waterlilies leaves, enrich these forms, collection. Porcelain bisque like watereolor-painted paper and stoneware with brightly colored engobes, collection of furnishing objects...

Elisabetta Bovina and Carlo Pastore graduated ai the ISIA, Istituto Superiore per le Industrie Artisliche in Faenza and founded Elica Studio in 1990. They have not set themselves any disciplinary boundaries: in fact, they have created projects, objects and actions in the fields ofceramics, jewellery, textiles, fashion and costume, graphics, set design and performance, and have written and spoken as militant critics of design and applied arts. Noted nationally and internationally for their eclecticism always high quality, have managed to participate and be invited to exhibitions, commercial and...