Pretziada, Perdas Fittas
Inspired by the depth and silence of the Sardinian countryside, Studiopepe has created Perdas Fittas, a collection that celebrates the sacrality of Sardinian stone and the healing power of water.
These miniature mountains, sculpted by hand from compact basalt from the plateau of Paulilatino, recreate the majestic and mysterious nature of the island. On each sculpture perch small bronze vessels for our modern offerings of fire or scented waters or unguents.
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Each of the bronze receptacles was cast by the ancient practice of sand-casting by Karmine Piras in his workshop. Piras has studied experimental archeology for decades in collaboration with local museums and the Region of Sardinia. He has mastered various techniques of bronze casting which the Nuragic peoples used millennia ago to make their acclaimed Bronzetti sculptures. Basalt, on the other hand, is a stone unearthed whole. Boulders like gargantuan pebbles, with dusty, mossy skins. Split open they reveal worlds of trapped gasses within velvet gray stone. They are misshapen marbles of cooled lava, buried deep in the dirt for us to discover.
Sand-casting is the oldest of these methods in which a shape must be hand-sculpted, then used to form moulds in packed earth. Finally the melted bronze is poured into the casts, refinished and hand-polished.
Here, the stone becomes a miniature version of its original shape, an archetype, shaped by invisible hands into the memory of its natural self.
These miniature mountains, sculpted by hand from compact basalt from the plateau of Paulilatino, recreate the majestic and mysterious nature of the island. On each sculpture perch small bronze vessels for our modern offerings of fire or scented waters or unguents.
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