Salvatore Messina a few years ago he decided to open her own pottery workshop (Ceart) on a side street a bit 'secluded medieval village of Erice. First there is the love for the subject, for the land worked by hand, for color pigments that open pathways to unexpected chromatic after cooking. Often the clay is used in the first impure prehistoric pottery that Salvatore has found through his studies of marine archeology. The observation of the oldest pottery has confirmed his love for the imperfect. Has taken the ancient technique of working the clay without the potter's wheel, resulting in less precise form, but most popular for their restless curves. This has been arrived 
passing through the study of design. The contact with the object in perfect form and its potential serial, led him to contrast, to highlight the uniqueness of its pottery that is illegal, inaccurate and unrepeatable. In his work always leaves a wide margin of experiments in which, despite the knowledge technology, there is the chance of valuable space, the random, unexpected. The unpredictable effect can shine glazes nuances of luminescence and the more valuable because unexpected, while the small failures consolidate the experience in dealing with the matter. In the blue, green, white, yellow in the suggestions of his passes and Erice Sicily in particular. Large domes, fish-bellied water bowls, candlesticks ... forms are exaggerated, overflowing with commas clay, overflowing with decorations and glaze. 
E 'immediate recall to the Baroque, but the intention was rather to recover the deformation of the Romanesque fantastic and monstrous figures guarding the cathedral. And so the fish with green enamel, swollen and large, they become fearful medieval dragons ... Small fonts evoke the intimate atmosphere of the churches of Erice, the baptismal fonts of marble, but to the Savior, as well as ancient forms of tradition, are references to his faith and have a high symbolic value for him. 
So even the icons painted in his studio, which include the greek-orthodox tradition of his mother's family, of Croatian origin. And then the large tiled domes and bell towers spied on every day against the blue of the sky or among the mists of Erice fast and beautiful necklaces 
Ceramic recalling the millennial era Phoenician jewelry found in the nearby island of Mozia ... Each of these works of art lives of many scales, spirals, twists, scales, including chromatic and strong at the same time slide left undefined at times reveal the nakedness of hard clay, the primal matter, pigments and the land that are processed otherwise by the wisdom of the hands, the love for experimentation and dall'irripetibilità appropriate. Erice, Sicily, Sicily, travel, art ceramics, earthenware, Mozia, Trapani, handmade, design, Mediterranean, savoir-faire, crafts, shopping, crafts, tipical pottery, raku, holy water, Baroque, apartment Jasmine
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