Secondo Fuoco

An investigation into slags in a reflection on the multiple souls of matter: Its mineral origin, re-obtained by smelting processes, and its artificiality drove by man. In collaboration with the Fonderia Artistica Versiliese tipstudio designed ‘Secondo Fuoco’, a sculptural and material collection combing the impurity of the scoria and the purity of bronze.
Tipstudio, Imma Matera and Tommaso Lucarini, have chosen to focus on the unless, on metal waste exploring the potential of the scoria in a link between the traditional approach to foundry culture and the spontaneity of metals. They collets those impure materials coming from smelting process and then they catalogue, trim, mill and stick them together with wax. A Further Fire (Secondo Fuoco) will follow to create new and unique objects: Functional and material sculptures each containing its inverse, its exact contrary. While the scoria highlights the spontaneity and expressions of this almost rocky impure matter, the bronze acts as a binder and structural element.