Giovanni Battista Rea
The Artist
Nature pervades her artistic creation, in perfect continuity with Rosina. Numerous urban redevelopment works starting from the ceramic and mosaic installations in the historic center of Capena, Settebagni, Monterotondo, Carsoli (Abruzzo).
In Rome he installs the playground “IL DRAGO SPIRO”, 20 meters long and 2.5 meters high, sponsored by the Lazio Region and in Capena, together with the Hungarian artist Hervé Loranth Ervin collaborates for the installation of “Il Momento”, a 9-meter-high giant.
Giovanni Battista Rea was born in 1980 in Rome to an eclectic family of recognized artists (maternal grandmother, famous painter and sculptor Rosina Wachtmeister, paternal grandfather, renowned writer Ermanno Rea).
His artistic studies began in Germany, at the Höhr Grenzhausen Ceramics School and one of the oldest ceramic factories in Westerwald dating back to 1600, called Der Schlondes.
His passion for ceramics, transmitted thanks to Rosina, becomes a profession in Germany and in 2000 he returns to Italy in Capena and opens the "Wachtmeister Werkstatt" Laboratory, recognized by the Lazio Region as a "Highly Aesthetic and Cultural Artisan Company",
specializing in the processing of ceramics intended as a form of combination of sculpture and mosaic art applied to original projects ranging from indoor furnishings, garden design to the creation of urban works of art.
In his laboratory Battista holds various courses, workshops and symposiums applying different ceramic processing techniques, including the Raku technique originating from Japan where he specialized in 2018 .
