By pure chance, in 1989 Francesco Busana meets the potter and sculptor
Giancarlo Scapin, remaining fascinated by the magic of the wheel.The wheel
remains his passion for years: shaping the non-shape, giving an utility
to a piece of clay by transforming it into an object.
This passion remains almost a child's game until 1996 when he meets Nico
Toniolo and Orazio Canesso, both professors of the Art Institute of Nove
and ex members of Alessio Tasca's team. He finds the possibility of experimenting
all sorts of clays, kilns and glazes, given the perfectly friendly relationship
started with the two potters. Because of his profound love for Oriental
cultures and poetry. In 1997 he begins to study the teapot in its symbolic
aspects and does a research leading to a meditation on shape, color and
the written word. Always looking for different realities and European
experiences, in April 2000 he meets the potter Antonio Lampecco in Belgium.
Italian by birth, Lampecco has been working in Belgium for the last 50
years, receiving various international prizes and recognitions until he
was elected honorary member of the Royal Accademy of Arts for his sculptures.
With this master, Francesco starts a continuous exchange of ideas for
working stoneware and through his precious advices he is becoming ever
more acquainted with galzes and the interpretation of clay itself.
The materials Francesco uses are:
- low temperature clays, fired at 950°/1000°C
- semirefractory clays fired with the Raku technic using glazes and nitrates
in reduction at 950°/970°C
- semirefractory fired at high temperature, 1200°C
- stoneware at 1150°/l250°C - slips instead of glazes at 950°C.
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