CONTENITORE
Designer/Manufacturer
Mauro MoriCirca
2019
Description
For over thirty years, Mauro Mori (b. 1965, Cremona, Italy) has built a cohesive body of work hand-carved in stone, solid wood, or molded in metal by the artist. Whether functional or decorative, Mori's pieces are works of art sculpted using the traditional techniques of extraction from solid blocks of natural materials, which the artist chooses to sculpt near their places of origin. From the original hand-sketched idea to the final piece, Mori draws inspiration from Nature and the timeless beauty of simple, archetypal forms found throughout artistic periods dating as far back as the Cycladic and Primitive Arts periods.
Mauro Mori
Mauro Mori
For over thirty years, Italian sculptor and designer Mauro Mori (b. 1965, Cremona, Italy) has built a cohesive body of work including sculptures both functional and non-functional, hand-carved in stone or wood, or molded in metal. The artist uses time-honored techniques to sculpt each of his pieces. His work draws inspiration from his extensive travels around the world as well as his interest in the natural environment and the timeless beauty of simple organic forms.
While he discovered his vocation when sculpting wood in the Seychelles island where he lives half of the year, Mori was trained as a traditional wood and stone artisan in his native Italy. The maturity of his work today reflects the artist’s ongoing research and explorations across mediums and sculpting techniques; from his earlier work hand-carved in wood and stone to his more recent pieces sculpted in metal or cast in bronze. Each of Mori's pieces is most often hand-molded by the artist himself in the material’s place of origin.
Mori’s sculptural, sensual, and textured silhouettes are informed by the very nature of their chosen material. His sensitivity to the medium's unrefined beauty and sensuality endows his work with a sense of appreciation for the material itself and its natural, original environment. The wood pieces are carved out of massive Albizia Rosa wood trunks sourced and sculpted by the artist in Seychelles, while the Carrara marble hand-picked by Mori in Northern Italy is carved in his studio in Milan.
From the traditional sculpture techniques of subtraction used by the artist for his wood and stone works to the painstaking form-shaping and hammering of his metal pieces, Mori never ceases to explore and further his craftsmanship expertise.
Today, his work belongs to significant collections around the world, both institutional and private, and has been the subject of numerous exhibitions in the US and in Europe.
Mauro Mori
For over thirty years, Italian sculptor and designer Mauro Mori (b. 1965, Cremona, Italy) has built a cohesive body of work including sculptures both functional and non-functional, hand-carved in stone or wood, or molded in metal. The artist uses time-honored techniques to sculpt each of his pieces. His work draws inspiration from his extensive travels around the world as well as his interest in the natural environment and the timeless beauty of simple organic forms.
While he discovered his vocation when sculpting wood in the Seychelles island where he lives half of the year, Mori was trained as a traditional wood and stone artisan in his native Italy. The maturity of his work today reflects the artist’s ongoing research and explorations across mediums and sculpting techniques; from his earlier work hand-carved in wood and stone to his more recent pieces sculpted in metal or cast in bronze. Each of Mori's pieces is most often hand-molded by the artist himself in the material’s place of origin.
Mori’s sculptural, sensual, and textured silhouettes are informed by the very nature of their chosen material. His sensitivity to the medium's unrefined beauty and sensuality endows his work with a sense of appreciation for the material itself and its natural, original environment. The wood pieces are carved out of massive Albizia Rosa wood trunks sourced and sculpted by the artist in Seychelles, while the Carrara marble hand-picked by Mori in Northern Italy is carved in his studio in Milan.
From the traditional sculpture techniques of subtraction used by the artist for his wood and stone works to the painstaking form-shaping and hammering of his metal pieces, Mori never ceases to explore and further his craftsmanship expertise.
Today, his work belongs to significant collections around the world, both institutional and private, and has been the subject of numerous exhibitions in the US and in Europe.
Mauro Mori Collection
TRES BRONZE
CETRA TABLE
THE LISTENER CONSOLE
EYE DAYBED
SCUDO ROSSO
TIP TAP PORTORO
TRES BLACK
MAXI CONSOLE
PIRAMIDONE
DUNE
FONDENTE CONSOLLE
PITAO MARBLE
CONTENITORE
J LORD
PIRAMIDI
AVENUE
OCTO TABLE
FIGLIO DI AUDIFACE
GOOD NOSE CONSOLE
THE FROWNING
TWINS TABLE II
HIDDEN EVIDENCE
PYLONE II
PYLONE III
MOVIMENTO BASSO FONDENTE
MOVIMENTO BASSO WOOD
MULTIOCLE GREEN
IOEGIO LEATHER
AVA
BOTH PORTORO
HOOR
TONO
TRES WOOD
MOVIMENTO IV
THE ONE
UNUM
BACIO
HUMM BRONZE
NOORA
MOVIMENTO BASSO MARBLE
TWINS TABLE I
TWINS CONSOLE I
CONTENITORE
MULTIOCLE FONDENTE
GOOD NOSE LIMESTONE
QUATTOR TABLE
RONDA CHAIR
BENITIER
LA COSA
FIGLIO DI AUDIFACE CONSOLE
EYE TABLE
QUINQUE
LIN TABLE
B-WAY CONSOLE
NARCISO
CUP TABLE
TWINS CONSOLE II
MONADE TABLE
BOTH BLACK
HUG CHAIR
SAND TABLE
SCUDO WHITE
CARAPACE
B-WAY TABLE
PYLONE I
IOEGIO BENCH
SPLASH TABLE
CONSOIL
SCUDO BLACK
MAMA TABLE
TRES CONSOLE
THE LISTENER
OLIVER BRONZE