massimo maci

Massimo Maci was born in San Pietro Vernotico, Italy, in 1972.

After artistic studies Massimo starts working, almost by chance, in a workshop specialized in artistic glass hand-making techniques. From stained glass windows to the Tiffany ones, from sand-blasting to engraving.

Glass fusion is however his favourite researching field, at the point of breaking away from fixed traditional patterns in order to create something new that reflects his own personality. 

Glass fusion gives birth to unusual shapes and sizes, due to the unpredictable reaction of raw material to fire. It is natural causes that always generate new and unrepeatable materic and chromatic effects. 

From the mixture of metal oxides originate simple and elegant polychromies. These are molded in soft and sinuous shapes that ease edges, opacities and transparencies.

A constant of Massimo's creative process is the will to continuously research and experiment. It can be done by collaborating to a project of the Pastis (technologic and scientific research center in Brindisi), by studying new refractory ceramic fibers for bending and molding glass plates. Or by combining and joining copper, brass, iron and steel foils, gold and platinum brushstrokes, ceramics, metal oxides, sands and above all recycled materials and objects, timeworn, to be reused in glass works. 

These materials are put in high temperature ovens, where chance and chaos become fundamental agents in creating unusual shapes. In fact, a great number of natural and chemical reactions start here, continuing long after the cooling phase. 

It's at this point that Massimo operates with measured and fundamental actions aimed at the creation of an object that contains and preserves the history of the elements and the conflict they are forced to.

His works have been on display in numerous international fairs, and feature in many professional settings.

Massimo lives and works in Campi Salentina (Italy).