HomeStudio Tour: Alessio Tasca
24. Jun, 2010 
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Famed Italian artist and potter Alessio Tasca’s studio is located on a busy two-lane highway in the countryside outside Vicenza, but despite the fast-going traffic, people visiting Tasca or one of the neighboring shops simply pull off and park on the soft gravel side of the road. By contrast, its quiet and cool inside the combination design studio, gallery and production facility. Tasca’s intricate, sophisticated work, which includes vases and floor and wall sculptures, occupy a small portion of the space near the bright front window and line a shelf in the main studio. My favorite piece is a geometric wall sculpture (above), which I still regret not having bought. While neither Ed (architect, NPR’s Eight Forty-Eight contributor and the other writer in the group Ed Keegan) nor I had been familiar with Tasca’s prior to our visit that sunny April afternoon, it was clear that our Italian hosts were excited to have the opportunity to meet such a well-known and accomplished artist, and they peppered him with questions.
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After a quick tour, we were off again, this time to Tasca’s second studio, a building dating to the 1600′s, which Tasca bought and restored. Also located on a busy two-line highway, Tasca’s compound happens to be located several yards from a sharp curve in the busy road, and a mirror mounted to a telephone phone makes crossing the street only slightly less treacherous. The property was once the site of a pottery manufacturing facility, and the remains of kilns are clearly visible inside and out. Upstairs is Tasca’s design studio, which feels larger thanks to vaulted ceilings with skylights. In one little nook, the shelves are lined with jars and jars of pottery remnants, which Tasca has found while working on the building. Tasca collected them with the intention of making something beautiful with them one day. Which is a beautiful thought in and of itself.
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Click here to read more about Alessio Tasca.
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Behind the shop.
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The second studio / compound, which was built during the seventeenth century.
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One of Tasca’s designs.
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His work is often incredibly intricate.
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Tasca actually designed this machine in order to enable the creation of his sculptures.
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Spectacular.
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Another example of Tasca’s work.
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Alessio Tasca (right) and his son Vittore.
Loved the photo tour of your trip to Tasca’s. What a talented artist. Also, studio #2 is an architectural gem.
I like the small blue bowl with the concentric ring design, the fresco (what else would you call it) of all the medieval figures on the wall, and the lovely miniature horses. I only have room for the bowl in my present residence, though… How did you hear about Tasca before you went to Italy?
I absolutely love this photo tour! I wish I had been with you!
My son has inherited a table signed by Tasca and dated in the 1950′s. It is a beautiful piece and I was hoping we could find out more about it. Thanks for the tour of your beautiful work. Beth Jaetzold