MARIA CRISTINA CARLINI

Maria Cristina Carlini has nurtured her passion for ceramics since her early years; it has accompanied her throughout her life and was her point of departure in investigating a range of materials, such as stoneware, iron, sheet metal, recycled wood, resin and glass.
In the early 1970s she moved to Palo Alto, California, where she attended the California College of Arts and Crafts. Later she lived in Brussels, where she continued to experiment with clay-related techniques, pursuing this direction further on her return to Italy.
Her strength lies in her consistent use of clay. Highly representative of her work are the monumental sculptures in which iron and stoneware combine to create a very personal and indissoluble union.
Maria Cristina Carlini’s work has received notable acclaim, she has exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions in various public and private international venues, and her monumental sculptures are on permanent display in three continents: Europe, America and Asia.
Her most recent permanently installed major work is the ten-metre-high La nuova città che sale [The New Rising City], located at the Milan Rho Fair and presented by Philippe Daverio for Expo 2015.
Numerous books have described Maria Cristina Carlini’s intense artistic activity, and renowned critics have written about her work, among them Luciano Caramel, Guo Xiao Chuan, Martina Corgnati, Gillo Dorfles, Carlo Franza, Flaminio Gualdoni, Yacouba Konaté, Frédérique Malaval, Paolo Levi, Laurence Pauliac, Elena Pontiggia and Cortney Stell.