Giovanni Cimatti has been a Professor at the Institute of Art of Siena, Director of the Drawing School and Plastic “T. Mainardi” in Faenza and Professor at the Art Institute for Ceramics in Faenza.
He started his artistic career in the seventies by developing a personal research on the relationship between form and surface reworking many techniques such as sangam, clay decoration, raku, decals, sealed land and for years is also interested in the high temperature.  He was invited in important international exhibitions of ceramic art, he has had solo exhibitions at the invitation in Belgium, Japan, Netherlands, Korea and Switzerland, and has participated in cultural exchanges in France, Japan and Germany. He worked in the juries of The Second International Ceramics Art Competition ’96 in Korea and of the Second National Biennial Festival of Albisola. he made conferences in Japon, Korea, USA, france, Belgium and Switzerland.
He worked as designer for the “Nuova Ceramica La Faenza”, the Sacmi of Imola, the FOS of Piero Mazzotti in Faenza and the Japanese Souzan-Gama and the Seizan-Tousha of Toky-City. He collaborates with the International Museum of Ceramics of Faenza in the workshop “Playing with Art” and his works of art are in various museums and published in international reviews.
At the end of the nineties develops a new method of raku technique who called Raku sweet whose characteristics are the low temperature from the furnace and the light fumigation.
Since 1980 makes international workshops at high level on art ceramic teaching techniques that he particularly loves.
He has recently made solo exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Kyungshung University of Pusan in Korea, to the Ceratekno Gallery of Toki City in Japan and at the Civic Archaelogical Museum of Bergamo.

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