P19natte
In every area we are increasingly seeing a great recovery of origins: the terracotta pot is one of the most powerful symbols of the local and popular tradition, because it is linked to food, fire, heat and nourishment. For years Piral has produced thousands of pots of all sizes here on the banks of the Sansobbia, in a semi-industrial way but with a strong manual-artisan component.
Even today the historic Albisolese brand is synonymous with quality, thanks also to some factories that have continued to produce them as they once did, albeit in limited editions, totally by hand and on the lathe.
The pinatta is the emblem of ceramics, of the history of an important and living knowledge, which deserves to be enhanced to grow, innovate and not disappear completely.
A visual synthesis of this photograph is made in the project.
A paradox is created: the full are empty, the empty are full. The image becomes abstract.
The project combines photography, graphics and ceramics: thanks to digital design, the basis is created for a material work faithful to the original shot.
The work concerns the work of man, and its relationship with the void and the earth. Earth as ceramic and earth as territory.
Realization technique
Plate forming, 1180 ° firing
Materials
Stoneware, clay, naval wire mesh.
Measurements:
H. 200 cm - L. 400 cm
We are on the beach between the end of the 1800s and the beginning of the 1900s: not sunbeds, umbrellas or deck chairs, but a boundless expanse of pots stretched out in the sun to dry.
An installation that could be of contemporary art: The project starts from this emblematic archive photo, where the eyes are lost.
A paradox is created: the full are empty, the empty are full. The image becomes abstract.
Eugenio Montale Walk - Upper Island
Inaugurated on October 31, 2019
Thanks to
Vincenzo Randazzo, Lea Gobbi, all the colleagues of Officina900,
Associazione Ceramisti Albisola e Scuola Comunale di Ceramica di Albisola
Special Thanks to Valentina D'Accardi