Pendolo

Giancarlo Sciannella was born in Castelli, a town of the Abruzzi region renowned
for its ceramics, and spent his childhood there among the flames of its ever-active
ovens, shapeless clay and coloured enamels, often accompanied by his grandfather,
an expert potter. It was thus quite natural for the young Sciannella to devote his life
to ceramics, the working of earth and fire. From the outset, his attention focused
more on material than form. It was in the 1980s that he introduced a sort of hybridization with the insertion of other materials. The Pendulum, which ideally measures time with its movement, is one of his first attempts at orderly arrangement of the physical surface, divided into geometric sections that separate and harmonize
the terracotta with inserts of iron, wood and gold. (Transl. by Paul Metcalfe per Scriptum, Roma)