Words from Roberta Lorenzetti: The Enchanter of Symbols

No, it won’t help you to try to understand. These cups are Encrypted. And it’s useless to call studious experts of languages, because these symbols don’t mean anything. Fragments of Egyptian, Hindi, Japanese, indecipherable slash and bar codes, all symbols beyond significance, searched for and selected to create a visual tapestry that lets the imagination fly.

Paolo Rossetti, expert alchemist of the graphic and gimmick language, this time for FrancisFrancis!, used a formula that almost magically deprives the symbols of any significance, it makes them impossible to interpret, to evidenceate a visual evocation, which appears to say nothing but then reveals unforeseeable harmonies. Nothing conventional, certainly, but on a personal level, each one of us can read different contents with every sip of coffee.

Before handwriting becomes comprehensible there is a rhythm, given by the hand that scrawls across the surface, and it is exactly the movement of symbols that Rossetti wanted to sculpt in porcelain.

Every cup, every saucer is a net of symbols that blend together, revealing and hiding themselves. Their complexities generates forms that become dance, music, wind, fugues. But always in movement, for an unexpected aesthetic expression, beyond any such content that can be found in itself.

Roberta Lorenzetti

• Made from high quality porcelain
  
• Each set contains 6 cups and saucers
  
• Cups: Height 5cm(1.9") x Diameter 6cm(2.3"). Saucer: Diameter 11cm(4.3").
  
• Signed, Limited Editions, your set will have a edition number
  
• Made in Germany by Zeitler
  
• Presented in reusable tin, safely packed in preformed foam
• FREE 250g Bag of espresso coffee worth £4.95