List of products by brand Licia Cicala

Licia Cicala was born in Naples in 1978. In 2005 she graduated in Architecture from University Federico II of Naples. Since 2000 she has been working with clay, at the beginning in Naples producing majolica, then in Milan where she moved in 2007 and where she continues her research using stoneware and porcelain. She lives and works in Milan.

EXHIBITIONS

2024
Quelque chose du monde Qualcosa dal mondo, Licia Cicala & Anne Moreau, Amélie Maison d'Art, Paris.

In 8 al Fuorisalotto, Studio Ceramica Guido De Zan, Milano.

Vessel (no) Vessel, ESH Gallery, Milano. 

2023
C(2) Contemporary Studio Ceramics, ESH Gallery, Milano. 

2022
Forme - Guido De Zan, Licia Cicala, Clara Lombardo, Spazio @ IF Living, Milano

2021
Exhibition at Galleria Gulliarte Savona, for the special mention of the Museo della Ceramica G. Gianetti di Saronno competition CoffeeBreak Museum 5ª edition.

2019
Kéramos Off Gallery, Museo della Ceramica G. Gianetti, Saronno.

Kéramos V edizione, Galleria Gulliarte, Savona.

2018
Artisti della Ceramica, Fornace Pasquinucci, Capraia Fiorentina.

Kéramos IV edizione, Galleria Gulliarte, Savona.

Tra-Vasi ovvero Vasi Comunicanti, Nobile Contrada del Nicchio, Siena.

2017
Contenuti: preziosità e minuzie nella scultura ceramica di piccole dimensioni, Nobile Contrada del Nicchio, Siena.

2016
Terra condivisa: collaborazioni e contributi tra gli artisti nella ceramica contemporanea, Nobile Contrada del Nicchio, Siena.

2015
Asta Adisco - Sotheby’s, Sotheby’s, Milano.

Ceramiche e gafiche Guido De Zan e Licia Cicala, Galleria Francesco Zanuso, Milano.

2014
Asta Adisco-Sotheby’s, Sotheby’s, Milano.

A Perfect Day, Garage Center for contemporary events, Sorrento, Napoli.

2013
Asta Adisco-Sotheby’s, Sotheby’s, Milano.

Together in April, Zeus showroom, Milano.

Licia Cicala – ceramiche e stampe, Pantesia, Napoli.

2012
Minima Moralia, Zeus showroom, Milano.

Drawing and sculpture have always been Licia Cicala’s preferred fields of experimentation and expression.

Alongside her university studies in architecture in Naples, she attended a ceramics workshop, where she learned shaping and decorative techniques.

Over time, the desire to express herself through a plastic material such as clay became almost a physical necessity.

Clay is a generous material: it allows itself to be shaped, it retains the marks given by the hand, becoming both the form of the design intention and the form of the object itself. At the same time, it demands respect and knowledge; and it is in the secrecy of the kiln that everything is fixed into its finished form.

The idea that her ceramic works might become elements of the everyday landscape of an unknown, distant person is another aspect dear to the artist.

In each work, form and surface treatment are closely intertwined. The forms are made by hand using the coiling or slab technique; the surfaces are left natural or covered with glazes, slips, or marks made with ceramic pencil. These are never purely decorative choices, but rather necessary complements to the form.

Licia Cicala’s ceramics are often spatial transpositions of recurring sketches: drawings of imaginary figures and landscapes, signs that sometimes originate from outside, from an organic world.