“Materialmente” – that’s me, Maddalena, and Alessandro. We met in our schooldays; years later we met again in Venice as artisans, each with their own skills: Alessandro working in the world of decoration and lighting, me in the world of sculpture for goldsmithing. We found out we are similar, perhaps identical in some ways, but always as male and female, as sea and land
And no place could be more fertile than the city of Venice, which, over its 1,600 years of history, has given birth to so many arts and crafts, so many forms of excellence. Venice is a bubble of history suspended in time, beauty in every detail—even, and especially, in its cracks. Much like every individual.
What we create, whether art or craft, is a play of lines and materials, of experimentation, research, and technique. They are poems told in the form of sculptures.
Our materials are iron, brass, and copper, in wire and sheet form, which we cut, bend, and weld. Painted, oxidized, burnished—sometimes the metals are heated to transform the color of the surface. And then silver and bronze for the jewelry.
Materialmente was founded in 2007. It has a showroom in San Marco and a workshop on Giudecca Island.