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Manifesto del CLS redatto dal ceramologo Franco Cocchi e firmato durante la seconda tappa della mostra art/r/evolution al Museo Nazionale di Danzica il 26/02/2011
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Working in clay is different. 1
Clay is dust and water, then, simultaneously, the whole world.
We are alchemists. We take a piece of the earth, add fire and other minerals and transform it into art.
The process is simple but the concept complex.
There needs to be a consciousness of tradition, and a knowledge of chemistry for making ceramic art work.
Only at this point can the ceramic artist bend the rules and explore using the technology at hand.
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Working in clay is different. 2
We have chosen ceramics, because its variability, complexity and mystery go with our nature.
There are no irreversible decisions . It is possible to interfere in the work till the last minute
No other medium it can be used as material for utilitarian objects and artistic forms.
The sculpture it connect with painting in a natural way expanding the range of possibilities.
Minerals of many kinds have special properties that can be manipulated by us, and the unexpectedness of nature gives the exciting sense of interference with the unknown power.
We discover its smallest part every day.
It is our right.
As Artists. As artisans . As creative beings. As human beings
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Working in clay is different. 3
We looking for new forms, and different kinds attributes of clay and ceramic characteristic for everybody of group in different way.
Someone of us started from postwar abstract art or certain types of raku ceramics, others from traditional majolica and it's difficult to say this a group, because everybody is an individualist in his way.
What is common is contamination , experiment and exploration into the terra(cotta) incognita.
We express our feelings and ideas as contemporary artists and ceramists aware of liquid modernity of our times and the globalization of culture.
Therefore, we have no fear of our contamination to learn from others and we are constantly trying make this a better ceramic world.
Working in clay is very different way.
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