Italian Scagliola from Andrea Borelli
Andrea Borelli uses scagliola, a technique known to produce plasterwork columns, sculptures, and architectural elements that resemble marble. The scagliola evolved from the Italian scaglia meaning chips. Even batches of pigmented plasters from ground alabaster or gypsum can also be created by Andrea Borelli.
The modified with animal glue can be used to moulds, wall planes and armatures in an old fashioned manner, where it accurately mimic's natural stone and marble. Andrea Borelli himself has spent years in experimenting and researching with this scagliola. He has created various attractive pieces with scagliola.
Each of his master pieces has a character rich with texture and layers of colour crafted by deliberate manipulation of natural materials to reveal surfaces that can either be highly polished or have a sensual imperfect beauty in both texture and form. Stone pieces by Andrea Borelli can be identified by the different variation in colouring and grains used.
Andrea Borelli creates products to please designers, architects who needed creative solutions for walls, ceilings, columns and decorative features. Andrea Borelli works in collaboration with his friend, Sandra Jeffrey, an extremely talented and gifted artist from South Africa for the past 14 years.
16-Jun-2008