About

Carmen D’Apollonio is a Swiss artist, born in 1973 in Zurich.
Before beginning her self-taught career in the ceramics discipline, D’Apollonio worked
as an art director for short films and commercials in the mid-nineties. In 1996, she
started as an assistant for the artist Urs Fischer in Berlin and New York. At this
position she learned building sculptures with different materials which led the way for
her own practice that she began in 2014.
D'Apollonio’s process begins with sketching, which she then translates into clay and
bronze – evolving the three-dimensional form as she goes. Humorous and …