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Ceramics

  • The sumptuous plate sculpture displays an intertwining of thin iridescent branches evoking mysterious marine environments, irregularly shaped with a valuable composition of open and closed spaces, emphasized by the creative use of brilliant glazes, coral, opal and golden bronze.

  • The plastic forms in glazed ceramic in bold colors with full backgrounds and stylisations of large fruits, guard a treasure that takes on new a form every day.

  • These hand-crafted and decorated pots are made of many-coloured glazed ceramic. The pot is called gallinella, being a formal synthesis of the stylized fowl, shaped to make pouring easier.

  • Moorish elements of Mediterranean culture are arranged with fine decorative motifs in the complex surface of the large ornamental plate. Being a high-quality piece, it is characterized by the uniqueness of the realization that testify to a clearly sensitive creative process.

  • Original in shape and elegant in its precious decoration, this black ceramic bottle with an elongated neck and fine linear relief motif in gold is the result of the skilful stylistic research by this ceramist who investigates ever-evolving striking sculptural forms with an artistic approach.

Il settore

Local pottery production started during the Neolithic age, featuring peculiar characteristics that evolved during the Nuragic age. Neolithic pottery productions explored the female body, rounded also in pottery production, being a representation of the Mother goddess. Nuragic pottery featured simple and stylized designs, a tribute to the strength of war.
 
In the following ages, the regular exchange of imported pottery, linked to the interaction of different cultures with Sardinia, made it difficult to define what local production really was, since production became a self-sufficient expression of modern age, only when stylistic features and technical procedures were define and kept unchanged until recent times.
 
For instance, terracotta was slipped and glazed. Few and functional models were lathe-crafted: pitchers, marigas, containers, sciveddas, pans, pingiadas, flasks, frascus, bowls, discus, and other types of pots and pouring receptacles.
 
The setting is rural and pastoral. They are objects of daily use, for the transportation and and storage of water, baking, the preparation of desserts and food products. Yet, embellishments and expressive characterizations are also used. The festive versions are used during solemn occasions, anniversaries, rituals, and are part of the set of votive tools. They are made by the most skilled figuli, using graphite and decorated with plastic additions, plant motifs and the figures of saints and other religious and good-luck symbols.
 
 
These productions that belong to the local material culture, together with the productions of other sectors such as hand-made weaving, jewelry, carving and basket weaving, share a secret language, and intimate and evocative jargon.