Presentation of the Pottery Works in Ceramics of Joseph Deiana

A Gallery of Handicraft Ceramics of Sardinia

In Joseph's Deiana works, the tradition and the imagination they are melted in a wise interlacement of references to the past and actual forms.

We find to us so in front of the Sardinian tradition, but without trace of repetition, search of spaces, forms and decorations that confer to his works a sober elegance. The warm colors seem to draw origin from the earth, source of life. The nature, true model to which the author is continually inspired, is betrayed never, but finds new sap in these fragments of life, that seem to become animated in front of our look.

The ability of Joseph, succeeds to transmit its fantastic mind and from its hands forms and works they are born together from the mythical and ethnic taste.

The myth of Janus Bi-front finds space in an unlikely terracotta vase, it is enriched of elaborate details, forms and signs of a disappeared civilization, as if in our unconscious collective they had remained engraved memories of our ancient fathers. The author succeeds in expressing a taste for the archaic one that becomes never prosaic; his search of primitive and essential motives they celebrate the nature and the man and they tell an important part of our history.

Grotesque faces, masks transfigured of a primordial humanity, the adventure on fragile ships toward landings and new frontiers that today's man search only out of himself, more and more often forgetting his true origins. Joseph crosses with light footsteps his and our memory, he remembers to us what we have forgotten and with his works he pushes us to reach new destinations.

An universe to be discovered, this of Joseph Deiana, where the almost wooden color of the ceramics, treated with the wax of the bees, it is enriched by decorations in gold and bronze, fast signs engrave in the subject new strength and vitality.

The playful part of the soul of Joseph, plays between professionalism and imagination, with the wisdom of whom knows to appreciate and to invent new forms for the life and the objects that are around us; its hands engrave in the clay the beauty of the nature: turtle, butterflies and owls, animated by fantastic colors, they are moved in the walls of our rooms, making us also taste the taste of the fable and the legend.

A man, to the insignia of our time, where the past and the present are melted for going to the search of a new identity; a run that has origin in the earth where he was born: Sardinia, and without too fears it runs into the future.

Fonte - 2000

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