Theoretical Course: From the earth it came, from clay it was done: beasts and gods, devils and saints
Date 23 Apr to 11 Jun 2025
Teachers
Location À distância/On-line
Schedule Wednesdays from 18h to 20h
Type occasional
Program
With less than a knife, sometimes with only the hands, the first objects of practical use or protection – con-tainer, adornment, amulet - came from the simplest matter.
These objects crossed all civilizations and their meaning is a well kept secret in the History of Humanity. From a plastic viewpoint, they attained perfection in times so old that, in many cases, not even writing ex-ists to describe them.
But they travelled through time, mixing the sacred and the profane, the erudite and the popular. The tech-nique was not lost, it was in fact perfected, to the point where technology needs ceramics as much as the potter that made a living of it.
Since nothing exists in isolation, we will bring out other materials and other arts and allow the thread of stories to be the potter’s wheel, and the images created by hand or evoked by the shamans to become con-temporary installations full of mystery, with the most “povera” of arts.
