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Romano Mazzini Biography<\/h1>\n[\/mk_fancy_title][mk_fancy_title font_family=”none”]\n

By Serena Mazzini and Nicoletta Nardella<\/h2>\n[\/mk_fancy_title][mk_blockquote font_family=”none”]Special thanks to Serena and Nicoletta who, with great fervor and dedication have recreated the lifelong artistic journey of an exceptional artist, my father.<\/p>\n

His son, Piero Mazzini<\/em>[\/mk_blockquote][vc_column_text]Romano Mazzini<\/strong> was born in Imola ( Bologna ) on 14 September 1939. From an early age he showed a marked aptitude for drawing disegno<\/a> and modeling.<\/p>\n

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\nIn 1953, he started studying art at the Institute of Faenza Gaetano BallardiniFaenza<\/a> then he went on to study at the city \u2018Magisterium\u2019, where he graduated.
\nThe prestigious school of ceramics in Faenza allowed him to attend lectures by renowned artists such as ceramist (italian link) <\/a>Carlo Zauli<\/a>, the technologist Tonito Emiliani, the sculptor <\/a>Angelo Biancini<\/a> and the art historian <\/a>Giuseppe Liverani<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Romano Mazzini was greatly influenced by Angelo Biancini who was for him not only a teacher of art, but also a teacher of life.<\/p>\n

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Another important influence for the culture of Mazzini was Pietro\u00a0Melandri,<\/a> a famous painter , set designer and ceramist from Emilia Romagna, (Faenza 1885 -1976<\/em>) Form Romagna, we also remember his dear friend, Raffaele\u00a0Mondini<\/strong> about whom the critic Mariano Apa<\/strong> wrote: \u00abRaffaele Mondini was the laboratory and the oven where Mazzini\u2019s clay learned to recognize and model its value and its forge. Mondini, Biancini and Melandri are the cornerstones of a cultural history where Faenza could be reflected in Deruta.\u00bb<\/em><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][mk_padding_divider][vc_column_text]In 1961Mazzini, strengthened by the the centuries-old art of ceramics, maiolica (italian link) <\/a>, a singular tradition of Faenza, started his own artistic path that led him to research plastic forms, using mainly terracotta (italian link)<\/a>, plaster <\/a>e bronze <\/a>.
\nHe learned the secrets of the lost wax, the ancient technique for bronze casting <\/a>, used in classical times, from Bilancini. This technique disappeared to then reappear during the Renaissance. He also learned the secrets of casting to create shapes in concrete and plaster.<\/p>\n

He took part in the International Competition of Ceramics in Faenza <\/strong>in 1962 and 1966. From 1962 to 1964, Mazzini exposed his theoretical considerations on technical ceramics and sculpture discussing with Argan<\/a>\u00a0and Menna<\/a> during art seminars held in Rome.<\/p>\n

In October 1961, when he was only twenty-two, he moved to Deruta<\/a>, where he taught clay- modeling at the Art Institute of Ceramics,<\/strong> and later, became professor of sculpture and artistic anatomy at the Academy of Fine Arts in Perugia. Perugia<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Mazzini was fashineted by the environment and the history of Umbria<\/a>,\u00a0ian interest he shared with friends like Giulio Busti <\/strong>artist and curator Manlio Bacosi<\/strong>, painter, and Bruno Orfei<\/strong>,\u00a0sculptor, all of them outstanding representatives of contemporary art in Umbria.<\/p>\n

A longstanding, deep and lasting friendship united him to the well-known writer Marco Rufini,<\/a> who, wrote about Mazzini, highlighting his artistic and his inner, personal human side.<\/p>\n

Trained in Faenza, Mazzini matured as an artist in Umbria, where he devoted himself to the clay sculpture that remained a constant in his work and from which he derived his unique identity of “ceramic sculptor”<\/em>. \u00a0Terracotta remained his favorite material, used to create large and monumental sculptures or small pieces sometimes colored with metallic luster.<\/p>\n

The use of concrete <\/a>was reserved to the creation of large-scale sculptures, he creates wax-sculptures with paraffin <\/a>and fusions with bronze.<\/p>\n

Another aspect of the artistic work of Romano Mazzini is represented by his drawings, sometimes they depict the same themes and narratives of his sculpture. He employed red-chalk pencil, charcoal <\/a>, ink china, oxides and earth colors.<\/p>\n

He mainly carried out its vital work as a sculptor in Deruta, , where he worked until his death on 6 March 2013, at the age of 73.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][mk_fancy_title font_family=”none”]\n

His work can be divided<\/h2>\n

into the following temporal<\/h2>\n

and artistic phases:<\/h2>\n[\/mk_fancy_title][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text]\n