It has always been my dream, to decorate ceramics in Sicilian style. One day, thanks to a friend of mine, I learned that in Aci Sant’Antonio a master ceramic decorator was holding a course for a group of friends in the Sicilian cart museum. It is said that Aci Sant’Antonio Read more…
It is among the pearls of Sicily, facing and bathed by the sea that the Mediterranean was called “Nostrum”. A sea that in the Middle Ages was called the Sea of Barberia, when corsairs and bandits wandered long and wide. This pearl is Sciacca. The city has lost its origins Read more…
Seeing beyond things, that’s what an artist has to do with ceramics using the Raku technique. To do that needs concentration, says Giuseppe Lorenzi, while already thinking about the next work. Distraction, however, belongs to the mass of all those living in the chaos of everyday life; beauty is increasingly Read more…
The small town of Nove, near Venezia, has arrived at the 18th annual Festival of Ceramics, an international event with the participation of artists from all over Europe. Events were scheduled from 5 until 24 September 2015. Coffee with Michele Barbiero, president of Nove Terre di Ceramica, allowed me to Read more…
Watching the artistic creations of FabioTaramasco is a sensual pleasure. Immediately you are struck by the comic idea of the work and the skills of its realization. Then you smile with the title. And finally you may understand in depth the meaning and conceptual links. Fabio Taramasco defines himself as Read more…
Gabry Cominale, a native of Genoa and child of Savona, won the First Energitismo Award at Galleria del Cavallo, in Quiliano, Savona, a fine the exhibition organised by QuiArte. The work comprised three standing ceramic bodices reflecting the irrepressible creativity of Gabry. These ceramic bodices are performance-show works worn by Read more…
Take care if you turn 60, 48, 36 or 24 this year (that is at Chinese New Year after 18 February, 2015), you are a goat and this is your Ben Ming Nian, the year of your sign and according to traditional Chinese astrology, it could be unlucky for you, Read more…
