Bruno Lucchesi and the Tradition of Figurative Terracotta
by Sara Murado-Arias
When he was in his twenties, Bruno Lucchesi, today a living legend, became fascinated by the speed of working with terracotta. He was introduced to clay in one of his early jobs at the Paternino Reproduction Company, a ceramics factory. The medium - soft, malleable, mutable, and inclined to lend itself to the achievement of fine details - awoke his ingenuity. As a clay sculptor, Lucchesi talks with a great deal of captivation of the technical aspects of making a figure out of shapeless matter. At the factory, he was entrusted with the quick production - sometimes making as many figures as one a day - of decorative warriors, pirates, and Madonnas. There he developed his signature technique: sfoglia. |
