The works with a religious theme, preponderant until the 1600s, gradually decreased, so much so that starting from the 1900s they were only marginally addressed by art.
Tomorrow at 19 (free admission) Sassari hosts a cultural evening in the artistic laboratory of Maestro Marco Silecchia. The artist will dialogue with the archaeological scientific divulger Pierluigi Montalbano on the Nuragic civilization, contemporary art and materials.
As Montalbano points out: «With Marco Silecchia from Sassari we find ourselves immersed in a novelty: the desire to give space to religious connotations within one's work as well. Observing his works, ancestral symbols materialize, as old as man, present in all civilizations with quite similar meanings, linked to birth, regeneration, vital energy».
The material used is above all ceramic to which Silecchia manages to give an unusual energy in the forms.
The use of colors is equally important, as Montalbano points out: «Spirals with soft signs and colors in harmony with the color of the grain and the sun, elements of strength which, together with water, have always been the engine of life. The play of images makes the works powerful, with a succession of curved and angular lines that do not allow the eye to dwell on the details. In his ceramic works one can sense the will to reunite the generating forces, natural and supernatural, in a mixture of divinities of the earth and of the sky who win over evil and allow regeneration in a continuous, powerful cycle which highlights the synergy of forces at play".
