ConTeSto ARTE

Angela Lancini: Terracotta between “colombino” and “lastra”

In her small studio, Angela Lancini designs and creates small terracotta works using “colombino” or “lastra” techniques.

Training, ConTeSto ARTE atelier and exhibition activities

Angela Lancini attended the Ceramics course at the Palazzolo sull’Oglio Art and Cultural Center. In 2019, she opened the ConTeSto ARTE art studio and workshop with her daughter Marta Vezzoli, where she creates terracotta works of various shapes and sizes, including pottery, female figures, landscapes, animals, and small-scale sculptures, which she exhibits in the studio and at numerous events. She has held solo exhibitions in Assago, Chiari, and Palazzolo sull’Oglio at the San Pancrazio Day Center.

Writing and literary awards

An avid reader, she also devotes herself to writing. In 2021, she participated in the “Writing is Freedom” literary competition with a published story. That same year, in Pesaro, she was a finalist in the narrative section of the 21st edition of “La donna si racconta.” In 2024, she published the book “Ricette strada facendo.”

Marta Vezzoli: research between industrial archaeology and intimate reflections

Marta Vezzoli’s research developed from the study of ancient and modern architecture, with a particular focus on abandoned factories, where she primarily observed their structures, lines, and mechanisms—comparable to enormous sculptures—that are gradually being reclaimed by the force and stubbornness of nature. This theme still resonates in her work today, which over time has become more intimate and poetic: a field of investigation into the relationships between the individual and his surroundings, the sense of identity, and the relentless march of time that modifies and impacts. Her iron sculptures, three-dimensional designs that engage with space through projected shadows and the ability to assume new forms and perspectives each time, become a metaphor for a reflection on the meaning of time and existence. In her paintings and installations, she initially relived the poetics of industrial archaeology, before arriving, in her recent works, at more intimate reflections: sought-after, found, occupied spaces, and also encounters, relationships, and bonds. Contrasting elements necessarily seek and find opportunities for encounter in the alternation of solids and voids, transparencies and reflected shadows. In recent years, the act of sewing canvases has become increasingly central as a pictorial and conceptual language: sewing as a means of reviving an ancient, concrete, everyday gesture to hold together, mend, and give form.

Biography and artistic training

Born in Chiari in 1976, Marta Vezzoli attended the Bergamo State Art School as a student of Figure Drawing under Professor Umberto Tibaldi, who first introduced her to the world of sculpture. She then continued her research with Professor Paolo Gallerani, graduating with honors in Sculpture from the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan in 1999. In 2005, she graduated as an art therapist from the three-year Art Therapy school “Risvegli” (now Lyceum-Vitt3) in Milan.

Exhibitions and publications

He has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions, as well as international expos, in Italy and abroad. Among his solo exhibitions are: Iseo in 2025, Tavernole sul Mella in 2017, Leipzig (Germany) in 2015, Rome in 2014, Milan in 2013, Pavia in 2012, 2022, and 2024, Paris in 2011, and Naples and Brescia in 2010. His work has been published in several art catalogs and in the volume “The Italian Way to Informalism. From Afro, Vedova, Burri to the Latest Trends,” edited by Virgilio Patarini, Giorgio Mondadori Editore, 2013.