Guiseppe Durcot likes to say he is “two or three different people in the same person.” Looking across his work, it’s easy to see why. The Rome-based artist has built a career creating religious sculpture—ecclesiastical commissions in marble and bronze, several of them in the Vatican—using traditional techniques. But he also crafts ceramic fireplaces, fountains, mirrors, and consoles that look like bits of Baroque architecture gone slightly rogue. For Ducrot, the two sides of his practice are closely related. “If you train yourself in the classical way, you are free to get started in something more free, more fast,” he says.
Over the past decade, Ducrot’s ceramics—available through Twenty First Gallery— have attracted a growing roster of hospitality and residential clients. He has conceived fountains for Le Sirenuse in Positano and Le Sirenuse Mare, the hotel’s beach club on the Amalfi Coast, and designed façade elements for Vermelho, Christian Louboutin’s hotel in Melides, Portugal. Interior designers including Georgis & Mirgorodky, Jessica Schuster, and Tony Ingrao have also solicited works for private residences.
