Iko Itsuki & Izumi Oki. Artiste in Italia. La poesia della porcellana. L'anima del vetro. Ediz. italiana e inglese

Iko Itsuki has been living in Italy for thirty years. For many years she worked in Florence at the atelier of Emilio Pucci. Her work with this exceptional creator of fashion led to her passionate discovery and acquisition of the art of combining colours. She later worked as a fabrics designer with Countess Di Colbertaldo in Rome. The experience she acquired in fashion was thus used and transmitted to painting on porcelain. Iko Itsuki Damiani has held exhibitions in Italy and Japan and given many demonstrations of porcelain painting techniques. For three years she was a member of the jury of the International Porcelain Decoration Competition in Tokyo. She graduated at IPAT (International Porcelain Artists and Teachers) as a teacher of porcelain painting. She currently lives and works in Rome.

Izumi-Oki Born in Tokyo, Izumi-Oki graduated in ancient Japanese literature at Tokyo's Waseda University. She studied painting and sculpture with Aiko Miyawaki, Taku Iwasaki and Yoshishige Saito.After being awarded a sculpture scholarship by the Italian Government in 1977, in 1981 she graduated at the Brera Fine Arts Academy in the sculpture course of Giancarlo Marchese. She took part, with her works and installations, in the Venice Biennial in 1985 (Venice Project, Third International Architecture Exhibition) and in 1986 (Art and Biology, XLII Visual Arts Exhibition); in the Milan Triennial in 1983; at the Museum of Modern Art of Hokkaido in Sapporo (Japan) in 1991; in 1992, at Rome's National Gallery of Modern Art, and in 1997 at the Japanese Institute of Culture in Rome (Frontiers).With Paola Levi Montalcini, she exhibited in Art of the Muses in 1998, once again at the Japanese Institute of Culture. In 2007, she held an anthological exhibition at the civic museum of Ljubljana (Slovenia). Her works can also be found in the Vatican's private Depository.