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After I opened the studio in Rome and created
the first works there, which were reminiscent
of Meli's ceramic forms and decorations, made
at the studio in Casale Monferrato, I began
to use various types of glazes in an unconventional
way, since I had little technical or cultural
knowledge of ceramics. I mixed the glazes
with sand, ash, and ground glass, which, after
firing, produced rough, opaque, and soft-coloured
surfaces, which was quite different from the
brightly coloured contemporary ceramics of
the time.
I realised that the vessel had exhausted the
function it had served in the past and, though
maintaining its typological structure, it
could take on new forms that had a sculptural
character, and this in the direction that
my work began to go in.
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