ART WITHIN SURFACES
Paola Gallinatto’s Surrealism: Shaping Porcelain Through Materials and Colours Monica Fumagalli ipcm®
The artistic activity of ceramist Paola Gallinatto is the subject of the fourth interview in our Art Within Surfaces series.
P
aola Gallinatto is an internationally renowned ceramist. She opened her atelier, “L’Esclusivo” (Chivasso, Turn, Italy), in 1989, and since then,
thanks to her intense activity of creation of porcelain works of art, she has obtained numerous prestigious national and international awards. In 2009, she got the “Artisan Excellence” recognition of the Piedmont Region in the “Decoration on various artefacts” field and, in 2018, she was the winner of the prize awarded by the IPAT-International Painting Artists and Teachers President in Miami (Florida, USA). Her works of art elicit conflicting sensations, but always with a perfect balance: Solid matter is made almost evanescent thanks to the skilful combination of colours, effects, and shades, mixed in a unique, original way. One of the works of art of this ceramist, in whom critics recognise the influence of the surrealist current started in Paris in the 1920s, fascinated the guests of the event organised by EOS Mktg&Communication for its tenth anniversary1. The artist
herself described it in detail in the interview here below.
© Paola Gallinatto
1 “#acciaio: The metamorphosis of matter in the work of Paola Gallinatto” in ipcm® International Paint&Coating Magazine no. 63 (May/June 2020), pages 36-37.
A detail of “Tieni il tempo”, awarded at the Salon International de Peinture sur Porcelaine in Lyon (France).