Cristina Fiorenza
I am an architect, artist and ceramist, I have participated in numerous collective and individual international exhibitions. I live between Naples and Vienna.
I grew up in Naples, and I carry with me the erosion of rocks of the Amalfi Coast: a place where ceramics are part of traditional culture. I have the sea inside me, as well as the objects and colours that the sea gives back to the beaches of southern Italy.
The material has always played a very important role in my research, both as an architect and as an artist. Ceramics has always been a material I feel comfortable with. The function of my pottery is not the purpose, but a means of investigating the surface, respecting the traditional forms of the vessel.
I experiment a lot with the use of enamel to create rough, jagged surfaces, which remind me of lava stones, erosion and the age-old sedimentation of rocks.
The large agaves and cactuses standing out from the cliffs are images that inspired the FIO growing wall project.
fioo growing wall team
For the development of the vertical garden I created a team of experts:
Alexander Eselböck
Expert in the development of plaster forms, ceramist and scientific collaborator at the University of Angewandte Kunst in Vienna.
Irene Zluwa
Expert in the creation of vertical gardens, greenery engineer and scientific collaborator at the University of Bodenkultur in Vienna.
Gerald Pfaffl
Expert in glazes and clay masses, ceramist and scientific collaborator at the Universität für Angewandte Kunst in Vienna.
Daniel Cranach
Modular system designer and architect.
