Carlo Zauli

Italian, 1926–2002

Birth placeItaly

BiographyBorn: 1926, Faenza, Italy; Died: 2002, Faenza, Italy. Education: Instituto d’Arte per la Ceramica, Faenza, 1937 - 1948. Awards: Numerous awards include the San Valentiono d’Oro per le Arti; Protagonisti dell’arte ceramica; Premio Romagna; Sculpture Award, Bologna Civic Museum; Vicenza Award; and the Faenza Prize. Art: One of the 20th century’s great abstract ceramic sculptors, Zauli began his career as a potter in Faenza making elegant vases with superb modernist form. In the 1960’s, tearing apart one of these vessels, he sensed a new direction both organic and sculptural and began to make powerful sculpture glazed with his signature “Zauli white”, a foamy glaze that trapped carbon giving his work a blush of grey to black.

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