Artists and the Craft Shops
Artists & Workshop
To enrich your stay with unique experiences, we suggest visiting local artisan workshops.
The products made are true works of art, and a visit to the workshops is equivalent to immersing yourself in a world outside of time,
where craftsmanship becomes art and excellence.
Workshop
Bottega Conticelli
Stefano Conticelli with genius and refinement creates with natural materials such as leather, wood, jute, wool, iron, real works of art sought by collectors and enthusiasts. Stefano works in close contact with Umbrian nature, in a perfect blend of tradition and modernity. An eclectic spirit, Stefano Conticelli lives and works in the countryside of Orvieto, in Castel Giorgio. His creative talent has its roots in the family. Aided by a strong manual dexterity and a deep knowledge of materials, in his Bottega he has been making original, limited edition collections and works since 2007, with interpretations poised between poetry and play. For their uniqueness and elegance, his creations, made strictly by hand, are admired and requested by the most famous entrepreneurs, such as Loro Piana, Monaco Boat Service Riva, Fiat, Zegna, Gruppo Messina, Wannenes, Conceria Pietro Presot, representing the excellence of Italian Product in the world. For Stefano Conticelli, the Bottega is a place of continuous research and an inner source of resources and inspiration.
Atelier
Marino Moretti Art Studio
“Tradition is evolution, not reproduction” This is the philosophy on which Marino Moretti’s ceramic production is based. The Viceno potter’s works are characterized by an unmistakable style, fine workmanship with often vibrant colors and ever-changing subjects. Marino opened his first workshop a stone’s throw from the cathedral in 1977. After a series of solo exhibitions in Italy, he exhibited in several cities abroad including New York, Chicago, Atlanta, San Francisco, Melbourne, Sydney, Toronto, and Muscat. His studio currently occupies some spaces on the ground floor of the Rocca di Viceno, a 9th-century fortification that later became a castle in the 13th century overlooking Orvieto. The complex, one of the oldest in the Orvieto area, is situated on top of a tuffaceous spur in a dominant and once strategic position. From here you can enjoy a visit and a spectacular view. In Orvieto, in Piazza del Duomo, you can visit the Marino Moretti Studio d’Arte gallery where his works are on display. It is possible to book a visit to the castle and workshop, painting and turning demonstrations and actual pottery classes.
Artisan
Orogami
Massimo and Tiziana Aloisio have, behind them, years of study and work experience in the world of art and architecture. Through each Collection, the works express concepts directly related to life and its emotions by transferring positive energies into those who wear them, those who look at them, and those who touch them. An idea is transformed and materialized through forms that can best express it. This approach to contemporary design makes it possible to mix aesthetics, high quality craftsmanship and versatility with the symbolic values that the Collections carry. In Orogami’s creations, the circle constitutes one of the most recurring dimensions: a symbol par excellence of life and the vitality of things, in its shape everything is understood, it begins and ends without solution of continuity. A continuous constructive research aimed at enhancing the beauty of the material through games of reflections and shadows, of solids and voids, and a chromatic use of stones to enhance the desired effect. All this through techniques rooted in traditional Italian energy and craftsmanship. A fusion of craftsmanship, thought and heart. And this is why, like the simplicity that is difficult to make, an Orogami creation is somehow unique, difficult to reproduce, set on the border as it is between an artisan product of excellence and a work of art.
Painting
Painting Classes
The paintings of Massimo Chioccia and Olga Tsarkova have in them the originality of work made by four hands, like skilled pianists: : works in which the gesturality and emotionality of informal, action painting are admirably blended with the skill and refinement of figurative painting; trumpets, saxophones, double basses and the intensity of the performers’ faces emerge from the wide backgrounds of intense color in an electrifying poetic language. Massimo and Olga organize individual and small group painting classes.
Nature and materials by Michele Golia
A path of work from archaeological roots goes toward modern forms respectful of the present. Michele Golia is Master of ‘art and doctor in conservation of Cultural Heritage, also is a creator of artistic projects of ‘environment, such as spaces inhabited by the forms for public and private places; gardens, and terraces. Where the taste for suitable forms and materials are combined with the functions of use and furnishings in forms of furniture: seats, tables, structures, and wonder rooms. In recent years, research has developed toward the newfound dialogue between nature, artistic forms for living and the people involved, thus developing distinctive relationships of mutual communication. Michele’s works always intended as unique originals, are present in public and private collections in numerous Italian and foreign countries. For this particular purpose, Michele works with Marble, ‘Clay, Iron, Paper and Wood. Storie di terra is the name of his art workshop since 1997, is present in Orvieto.
