ICON by ATIM presents Mary Di Iorio

Breaking Boundaries In Ceramic Art

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MARY DI IORIO:

BREAKING BOUNDARIES IN CERAMIC ART materials, and techniques, Mary Di Iorio demonstrates that ceramic art is a powerful tool for creative expression.

| By Viviana Puello

M

ary Di Iorio is an artist whose work is pushing boundaries and redefining the traditional boundaries of ceramic art. Combining her expertise in clay firing with reference images and imaginary memories, Mary Di Iorio is creating unique works of art that challenge our preconceptions of ceramics and its potential. By experimenting with new methods,

Mary Di Iorio’s art style is unique, and her creative process pushes boundaries. She works with a combination of ceramics and other materials, using clay firing to bring them together. Her work often incorporates images from memory and references to different artwork, creating a “fictitious imbrication” of memories.

Her style is open to experimentation and is characterized by its fleetingness. She has made many pieces, from sculptures to installations, all displaying her signature style. Her works often explore the idea of transformation, reflecting on the concept of change through time and space. She is committed to her craft, and her art often reflects this passion for creation and experimentation.

The contrast between shape and volume characterizes Mary Di Iorio’s art.

She crafts her pieces to create a strong visual impact that also evokes a sense of movement. Her works range from small figures to large, abstract shapes

and installations. While the form of each piece is unique, each has a distinct, clean line that gives it a definitive shape.

The volumes of her works are equally as striking, giving them an impressive visual presence. Di Iorio ensures that each piece has the right balance of shape and volume, ensuring that neither overwhelms the other.

Mary Di Iorio is a master of combining her ceramic works with animation and sound, creating immersive installations, and blending the soundscape of her pieces with the visuals. In addition to animation and sound, Di Iorio also uses various materials to create even more dynamic works. Through her inventive use of technology and materials, she can bring her ceramic pieces to life and create a truly immersive experience for viewers.

Di Iorio’s work has had a lasting impact on the ceramic arts community. Her unique approach to firing, combining traditional techniques with modern materials, has pushed the boundaries of what can be achieved with clay.

In addition, her innovative style has opened up new possibilities for contemporary ceramic art.

Di Iorio’s legacy is evident: she has inspired countless ceramic artists and will continue to do so for generations.

Her influence on ceramic art will remain long after she is gone.

CAN YOU DESCRIBE YOUR ARTISTIC STYLE? A completely experimental process at first, with sometimes radical changes to the project thought out, with the use of clay and various ceramic pastes, firing in different kilns and temperatures varying according to need. The inevitable is fulfilled: using drawings, photos, models, mini projects, etc. Execution on various distortions and transgressions. Construction and deconstruction are often necessary— complementation with other materials. The first subject is ceramics.

WHAT IS YOUR CREATIVE PROCESS?

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A process under construction between ceramics and other materials. It mixes image references and fictitious imbrications of memory—a creative and interpretive process. I don’t know. The movement of silence, or the pause that accompanies the sound in each animated work, is very important. Random sounds. A memory about “silence in music” according to observations of a speech by Master Koellreutter. In the creative process of these works, the most important thing is the breakage resulting from the burning of the clay, making the ceramics and playful movement inflexible.

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HOW AND WHEN DID YOU DISCOVER YOU WANTED TO BE AN ARTIST? From a very early age, my experience with the visual arts and music was very important. The sound of the violin became familiar, as well as the beautiful drawings found in a drawer made by my mother when she was a student. This was in a small living where everything had a significant but always poetic dimension—a contrast between reality and dreams. And so, as he grew up, in proportion to what was possible, transformations took place among whirlwinds of desires mixed with fantasies, and accompanied by some technical knowledge, among the visual arts, ceramics stood out. Today, I dare to transgress the accumulated knowledge of this image and even dare to transcend it.

Will it be possible? I don’t know. When?

Throughout life.

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WHAT MESSAGE DOES YOUR WORK TRANSMIT TO YOUR AUDIENCE? An equally experimental message and the desire to annul the primary function of forms, creating other forms and another form with another time for them: building, deconstructing and through the same form, allowing the spectator a new relationship that places the exercise of the always look in question. The works exhibited in looping and with the loudest sound definitely confirm their movements.

HAS ANY PART OF YOUR STORY INFLUENCED WHAT YOU DO NOW? I work in different ways, trying to subvert the mechanisms by which images are perceived when placed in their various layers of understanding. Hence, the desire to annul the forms already studied and create other forms with a different time for them. It is a process of boldness, crossings, contacts, and friction between creation processes. A tension between abstraction and figuration is present in the transformation and use of other materials, revealing original and inspiring sources and, in others, observing them thoroughly. I think of a rich and poetic territory that exists between memory, images, and dreams, uniting the work here to reflect singular visions that examine form from several angles.

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AWARDS, RECOGNITIONS AND PUBLICATIONS • Published books – “A Cerâmica no Brasil: sistematização bibliográfica” – Ed. UFMG, 2014, 4 vol., 794p., il., color, bilíngue - “Arte Cerâmica no Ensino” – Ed. UFU, Edições: 1981 e 1984 – 33., il.

- “Di Iorio, Mary” – prefácio Pietro Maria Bardi – Ed. UFU, 1991 e 1992, 78p., il.

processo de criação de duas ceramistas brasileiras” , Ed. USP , S.P. , 2004, 192 p. , il. “ Coleção de escultura do MNBA – da Republica à Contemporaneidade” , Ed. Caixa Cultural - RJ , SP, BA, DF, 96P., Il. etc., • Main solo exhibitions: - Museu de Arte de São Paulo / Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro- RJ / Museu de Arte Moderna de Belo Horizonte – MG/ Palácio das Artes – BH – MG, etc

• In publications :

• Publications in magazine articles, newspapers, and exhibition catalogs with critical presentations.

Books: “Cerâmica Arte da Terra” – Editora Collis, S.P. , p. 130 , color “Obras em Processo: Interações comunicacionais no

Current activities: visual artist, researcher, and teacher.

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With this world situation, we all had to use alternatives in our lives and work. So, as the Internet was already in my work process, it brought me more courage for a change and greater transgression in making ceramics. Now, I want to cheer you up. I wish to transgress. Give it movement. Physical movement? Apparent; I want to ensure its visibility so that it can be displayed online; a new experience without prediction or even aiming at the Anthropocene; Anthropocene? This all makes me even more excited. Because the biggest motivation is to break the result of burning the clay when it makes the pottery inflexible and to move it in a playful way.

Mary Di Iorio

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