Caterina Zucchi - 01/03/1979 Livorno - Italy
My beginning...
In 1999 I attended a course on stained glass windows and Tiffany technique at the private school “Atelier della Arti” in Livorno.
In October 2001 I moved to Bolzano (Italy) to attend a course to become “Esperto nelle tecniche di lavorazione del vetro” (“Expert on techniques in glass-making”) (course F.S.E.) at “Vetroricerca Glas&Modern”.
The school deals with a large variety of different techniques showing the most update ways to work glass. All lessons are given by craftspeople and artists of national and international fame. Throughout the whole course Workshops and Stages in Italy and abroad on alternated with lessons.
In June 2003 I got my certificate as on “Expert on techniques in glass-making” together with the opportunity to have my best creations and the other students’shown in an exhibition at the art gallery “Kleinegalerie” in Bolzano.
Not only glass...
Summer 2003 creation of a sculpture in pate de verre, commissioned by painter/sculptor Paolo Pasquinelli (Livorno), with the help of artist Alberto Gambale (Ferrara).
Assistant to artist Silvia Levenson (Vigevano) and to designer Marisa Zenone (Novara).
My first collaborations...
Summer 2003 creation of a sculpture in pate de verre, commissioned by painter/sculptor Paolo Pasquinelli (Livorno), with the help of artist Alberto Gambale (Ferrara).
Assistant to artist Silvia Levenson (Vigevano) and to designer Marisa Zenone (Novara).
Murano glass and Master...
In October 2003 I moved to Murano (Venice) to attend the course “Lavorazione delle perle veneziane” (“How to create and shape venetian beads”) (course F.S.E.) at glass school Abate Zanetti, lasting two months.
Master Davide Penso is remarkably skieful at creating beads by torch. After a two weeks’stage I decided to remain in the studio for one more year to get a further knowledge in that particular ability.
29 gennaio 2005: I open 'Studiozero-Vetro', laboratory and showroom in Livorno
In my job, creating glass beads by torch is the technique I use most to shape my jewels. The use of the flame (torch, gpl-oxigen) requires attention, care and great skill. I focus my attention on the research of essence*, taking into account detail, searching for new shapes, choosing colours, using plenty of techniques and other “not” technical ways. Finally, Murano glass meets other materials: cotton, wool, fabric, plastic, metals.
* ESSENZA : what a thing actually is. What is absolutely necessary to constitute a thing , without which that thing can’t be what it really is.
Thanks
Thanks to:The Zucchi family, ”Atelier delle Arti” Livorno, “Vetroricerca Glas&Modern” Bolzano, “Scuola del vetro Abate Zanetti” Murano-Venezia, my master Davide, Carlotta, Silvia and Orso, Daniele, Arianna, Ilaria, Marta and Cecilia.