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From April 30th to October 3rd, 2010, at the Porcelain Museum in the Pitti Palace in Florence, Paola Staccioli's Living Ceramics exhibition will take place.

The ceramics of Paola Staccioli are one-off pieces in terms of shape and decoration.
The articles displayed in the show combine reduced dimensions with a potent magnetic presence and a throbbing physicality that emerges from who knows what psychic recesses. We find ourselves drawn into an intriguing, poetic world recounted through pure and enchanted eyes.
The teapots serve for everything – to make us dream, or recall a fairytale, a trip or a person – except for tea: abandoning completely the functional aspect that their name indicates, they become the recipients of a pure aesthetic pleasure.
The special atmosphere that hovers around the creations of Paola Staccioli is further accentuated by the unexpected details that create a sort of magic realism.

The artist was born in Florence in 1972 and after studies in the humanities graduated in 1999 with a thesis on a theatrical text by Dickens. The decision to devote herself to pottery came later, as the natural conclusion of a process that, over the years, brought her close to the applied arts (batik, glass) in quest of interesting substrata to her decorative vision.