"shanghai shape"
Simonetta Berruti
ceramic stoneware glazed 1200° - 17 Inches x 21 Inches
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The title is reminiscent of the ancient game called in italian “Shanghai”, or “Mikado” where the talent lies in being able to move a stick or a series of sticks without moving those underneath. A series of points, like sharpened arrows overlap one another intersecting on the superior part of the sculpture, made up of a simple lenticular disk. The inert surface thus corrodes throwing itself into a game of plasticity of small cuts and wounds where the skill of the game doesn’t consist any more in the absolute immobility but in the search of vitality and movement which destroys the petrified inertness of the material itself.
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