Profilo

In the surprising and fascinating world of Laura Pesce, colour is approached in a highly original way, through the creativity offered by Murano glass. The artist likes to explore various artistic expressions - painting, sculpture, jewellery and interior design - using the rich spectrum possible in glass working. Laura Pesce began by creating unique, personalised jewellery, going on to explore the world of painting - or rather "sculpture-painting" - and then "sculpting" into glass all her feelings and impressions, transforming them with her imagination and creativity. She has lived in various parts of the world, including the United States and Germany and, through these experiences abroad, has stored in her mind various images of the world that inspired or struck her already highly acute imagination. During a stay in Brazil, she concentrated her research on the relationship between art and science. In 1997 she returned to Italy for good and opened a studio in Populonia. Her major strength lies in her extreme originality and creativity, which inspire her to produce unique and special works of art, with constantly renewed and personalised forms. The sea bottom, with its myriad, changing hues, holds no secret for her, able as she is to push her fantasy to imagine outer space, as in her latest exhibition created for the Fine Art Museum in Rio de Janeiro and shown in Siena (Tuscany). In recent years Laura Pesce has produced works of art where glass is finished by painting, using various types of brush and technique (oils, gouache, etc.), or sometimes her delicate transparent glass sculptures. In the places where she works - Populonia and Val di Cornia - the "magic" of art has dwelt among the local population over the centuries. Here she finds important stimuli for her works, mostly in glass, where the magic of the Tyrrhenian coast, with its shifting skies and Tuscan sunsets, merges perfectly with the changing greens of Tuscan woods and countryside. Every single part of her work is hand-made, using glass-fusion and lampworking to complete the final composition.