Giovanni Vettori Biography
Giovanni Vettori was born in Florence in 1936. After initial training at the "Artisan Village" school in Signa, from 1950 to 1970 he worked as a decorator in various ceramic factories in the Signa area; in this environment the contact with Enzo Borgini, painter, engraver and ceramist, and with the Cartei brothers favored his aspiration to knowledge of art in a broader sense. From 1960 he began the experience of sculpture in wood and sandstone, fascinated by Oceanic and African art, then dedicating himself, over the course of the following decade, to ceramic modeling and experimentation with single-fired glazes. After a period of abandonment of the activity, his friend and painter Marasciuolo favored his return to ceramics and in 1986 Vettori was appointed to teach ceramic modeling and decoration for a decade at the school of the Province of Florence. These were important years for his artistic maturation in which the teaching activity contributed to providing stimuli for personal research into new ceramic forms and glazes, without precluding the possibility of an opening to painting and poetry. The first personal exhibition, at the Municipality of Signa, was in 1997. Giovanni Vettori lives and works in Signa, where he creates his works at the RO.AN company. of the Rosi brothers. Ceramics and sculptures by Giovanni Vettori can be found in the offices of the Province of Florence, in the headquarters of the Municipality of Signa, in Villa Castelletti and in the Parco dei Renai, in Signa. Furthermore, in Torre del Lago Puccini there is the bronze monument to Pippo, commissioned by Giovanni Paoli.
