Jewels
Silvia Ottobrini
NELTEMPO decors are inspired by the natural world.
We select flowers, leaves, small branches, elements of nature
for their shapes.
All the production is made with the ancient technique of
lost wax.
The processing begins with the preparation of the wax in everyone
its details and passing in the skillful hands of artisans founders you get to the raw product.
The castings thus obtained are subjected to accurate finishing processes, turning into jewels or unique ornamental pieces.
The textile works are born from the memory of the many colored threads that my mother used to embroider. This image has become part of my work over time. Embroidery, as an art form, is a steady practice, it shows us the way to appreciate a world made of repeated gestures, patience, commitment, of the slow rhythm of the hand moving on the loom.
The preparatory drawings become fragments, collages transformed and worked with "free embroidery", applied on linen canvases which become the page where the whole story unfolds.
The sewn and felted stitches create three-dimensional surfaces inspired by Romanesque bas-reliefs. While working with it, the softness of the fabric means that the entire creative process converges in something that you can 'feel' even with your eyes closed.
The time that is spent in the creation of a work on fabric goes beyond contemporary contingency, moving the centre of the perceptive subject to a sensorial dimension, very linked to art therapy.
The embroideries thus become tactile paintings and in our studio you will be able to find small embroideries the size of a cameo, as well as large paintings.
From interview at Maxxi in Rome on the occasion of the retrospective 'Holding the sun by the hand' 2020 Maria Lai
“What does sewing mean? A needle enters and exits something, leaving behind a thread, a sign of its path that unites places and intentions. The united things remain entirely what they were, only crossed by a thread."
