VIOLIN MAKER

PIERRE FLAVETTA，CREMONA, ITALY

Graduated from the Antonio Stradivari School of Violin Making in Cremona, Pierre’s focus is on old violin makers’ varnish, the reason why he started building copies of the masters from the golden period.

MAKER BACKGROUND

After graduating from the I.I.S. Antonio Stradivari in Cremona, Pierre devoted himself to researching ancient alchemy, focusing on old violin makers’ varnish. For this purpose, he began building copies of these masters’ instruments to get as close as possible to the construction and varnishing methods used in the violin-making golden period. Through this method, he is able to apply his historical research with both aesthetic and acoustic results.

Pierre Flavetta：“Even though my studies cover the span from the 15th to 18th centuries, my work is mainly influenced by the golden period of violin making. It was a really eventful age, full of new approaches in the artistic field: as artistic mentality evolved, it also affected the techniques, leading to the apotheosis of painting and instrument building. At the height of this period, Stradivari achieved a level of perfection that is unsurpassed three hundred years later. The craftsmen of that time had a superior and more sophisticated aesthetic vision than ours - a vision which later gradually faded. What motivates me in my work every day is to rediscover this lost sensitivity.”

泛泛琴韻于2022年11月簽約Pierre Flavetta。
作品可參考上兩期筆記。