Wave

Loreto Buttazzoni, is a Chilean / Italian artist who draws and sculpts primarily in paper and ceramics, and is most known for her signature porcelain crochet-work. She studied visual arts at the Palazzo Spinelli in Florence and at Harvard University. Her work has been exhibited in Europe, LatinAmerica and the United States. In October 2015 she curated and participated with an installation entitled Women-s talk in crochet dollies vitrified in porcelain which depicted the tradition of knitting in South America. In 2017 she presented Patio Interior at the Contemporary Art Space EAC in Montevideo, Uruguayand at the Museum of Santa Clara in Bogotá, Colombia, a traveling installation made with 400 crochet / vitrified in porcelain dollies which remembered the arcs of the former convent of Santa Clara in Bogota. The piece Waves intends to show through the flow of a fabric that hangs from the wall the intricate and fragile social thread that connects us with our time and with the past and future. The materials chosen , vitrified crochet dollies in porcelain, dyed one. by one, reflects that need of maintaining memories of hand made activities and at the same time convert them into new pieces as fragile as permanent that evolves along time as the waves int he sea that comes back and forth in an endless movement.