These are the artists who will perform the workshops on 25 June
Lobo di Fimo
Luca Panza (class 1978) is an artist of the south Italy who lives in Bari. His art name is “Lobo di fimo”. His attitude for the development of polymer clays is born in total autonomy. His self-thought path runs parallel to the passion for design and accessories predominantly female to wear in every occasions. He discovers the polymer clays like a game in order to repair a broken ceramic using the paste and a filler to discovers that there is an endless world of the creative applications combined with other materials such as silver, copper, brass rubber and glass!
In six years he developed different kind of techniques and he makes them his own customizing. He chooses to be a wanderer who experiment with different exhibition contexts in Italy, London and Madrid.
Pin'occhio Laboratory
Elena Savini is a creative artisan. She lives and works in Conversano, her thought is:
“A craftsman is a worker who uses tools, machinery and raw materials for the production or transformation of certain objects".
The Pin'Occhio's philosophy is to 'reinvents' and gives new meaning at the objects that lost their identity during their life. Elena is an artist of many facets: she paints, she use wood, paper mache and organizes events that have aimed to re-educate the thoughts and feelings towards art.
Pin'occhio website
Ligoboat
Vito Valentino is a very strange artist. He defines himself as a "contemporary artisan”- Vito was born in Conversano, a little city in Puglia, the 13August 1976 and there he spent his entire childhood.
At 19 years old he feels he has to satisfy the need to travel and discover new horizons: Venice, Paris, Copenhagen, Fuerteventura, Cuba. Here he worked a lot and he met a lot of people who helped his personal and professional development.
In 2010, he comes back in Puglia where he decides to start a new adventure.
His art is very special: he catch wood from the sea and he restores it creating ships, sailing ships, mills…
The name of these strange recycled objects are called: ligoboat.
Lauravì
Laura Vitto is a young and lovely seamstress. She reuses any piece of cloth. Nothing is left for his sewing machine. She manufactures clothing for women, accessories for men, women, children and household, wallet, pouch for tobacco and many other delicious items. She customizes and decorate clothes in according to the needs of its customers.
Lauravì on Facebook
