[vc_row][vc_column][vc_video link=”https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/807965615?dnt=1&app_id=122963″ align=”center” css=””][vc_empty_space height=”100px”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1779452429659{margin-top: 150px !important;margin-bottom: 150px !important;}” el_class=”content-row-width”]Alessandra Malfatti fell in love with \u201cgrand feu enamelling\u201d during an exposition of Paolo De Poli, a renowned Paduan enameller who worked with Gio Ponti. She was seduced by its dazzling colours, the reflections, and the shimmering luminosity of the enamelled surfaces.<\/p>\n
Since then, she has nurtured the dream to learn to work with fire to reproduce that magic. For the mystery of enamel is generated by the fire: letting melt powder of coloured glass on metal surfaces in kilns at extremely high temperatures.[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”100px”][vc_single_image image=”80801″ img_size=”1570*1040″ alignment=”center” css=”” el_class=”full-width-image”][vc_empty_space height=”100px”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1779452450594{margin-top: 150px !important;margin-bottom: 100px !important;}” el_class=”content-row-width”]Graphic designer, already used to designing little objects, Malfatti enrolled in an art school. There, she met two excellent masters, Graziano Visintin and Maria Rosa Franzin, and she specializes with Ennio Cestonaro, a polyhedric artist and an expert in enamel.<\/p>\n
The path is marked. Driven by the desire to develop her expressive style, she establishes a laboratory on the outskirts of Padua, purchases the first kilns, and begins chromatic research to select the best glazes.<\/p>\n
\u00abThe absolute seduction of enamel lies precisely in the colour\u00bb Malfatti explains. \u00abIn the nuances, shades, and combinations that can be achieved\u00bb.<\/p>\n
This is what binds her to Paola Lenti. They started by imagining surfaces that can be combined with the company\u2019s collections: movable backdrops, bookshelves, and table tops.<\/p>\n
[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”50px”][vc_custom_heading text=”Alessandra Malfatti experiments with Esmal, a contemporary reinterpretation of the ancient \u201cGrand Feu\u201d enamelling technique that creates numerous shades and chiaroscuro, making each object a one-of-a-kind piece.” font_container=”tag:h2|font_size:34px|text_align:center|color:%23000000″ google_fonts=”font_family:Josefin%20Slab%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C600%2C600italic%2C700%2C700italic|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal” css=”.vc_custom_1779452560414{margin-bottom: 100px !important;}” el_class=”content-row-width” el_id=”customWidthTitle”][vc_empty_space height=”100px”][singolo_video_background videomp4url=”https:\/\/www.paolalenti.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/SMALTI_PER-INSIGHT.mov”][vc_empty_space height=”100px”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1779452629008{margin-top: 100px !important;margin-bottom: 100px !important;}” el_class=”content-row-width”]A complex technique that originated in the Mediterranean between the fourteenth and thirteenth centuries BC. and is now used by very few artists worldwide.<\/p>\n
Alessandra Malfatti chose copper as a support material; her inspiration comes from nature in all of its changing forms and innumerable shades. Another common ground: the family lexicon shared with Paola Lenti.<\/p>\n
From the observation of the luxuriant vegetation of the Padua Botanical Garden \u2013 Alessandra Malfatti\u2019s place of the heart \u2013 an installation of philodendron leaves in enamelled copper arises which, suspended from the ceiling, restores the atmosphere of a tropical forest.<\/p>\n
Colours and veins derive from a skilful stratification of the enamels, while the movement of the leaves is forged manually when the copper comes out of the kiln and when the material is still ductile. Finally, fire puts its indelible mark on it, since different temperatures and firing times can produce signs, chiaroscuro and transparencies that are different each time. This is the mystery that Malfatti had sensed in De Poli\u2019s works.<\/p>\n
Experimentation goes on. \u201cI am conducting several experiments with the idea of creating a sort of fantastic herbarium in various shades, from green to earth,\u201d the Paduan artist declares. \u201cCurrently, these are tiny plates that are always made of enamelled copper and have simple symbols that may represent a leaf or a cactus. They might evolve into furniture, items, or something else in the future\u201d.<\/p>\n
To give depth to the images, Malfatti uses both transparent and opaque enamels. \u00abIt is precisely this feeling of depth, which is produced through the colour and which varies according to the light, that makes each piece precious\u00bb.<\/p>\n
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\nwith Alessandra Malfatti, Padova[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”20px”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1779452693960{margin-top: 20px !important;margin-bottom: 150px !important;}” el_class=”content-row-width” el_id=”nendo-e-paola-bottom”]Interview by Anna Vullo
\nDirector Maurizio Natta
\nCinematographer Fabrizio Polla Mattiot @ateliermistral
\nFilmed by Maurizio Natta, Fabrizio Polla Mattiot @ateliermistral, Gianlorenzo Bernab\u00f2 di Negro
\nAudio post production Top Digital
\nSoundtrack Universal Music Publishing Ricordi Srl[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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