Ceramics as Sea Pages
"Sea pages" as the title of one of the most beautiful ceramic sculptures of the exhibition, could be the incipit or epigraph of this extraordinary chapter dedicated to ceramic in the vast volume constituted by Simona Weller's works.
Made by words and meaningful, allusive, evocative signs, Simona's painting can be read as a book. According to the artist, her ceramic work should not be considered as a minor chapter, for the malleable nature intrinsic to ceramic can generate a kind of poetry elaborated with the same sensitivity employed in other media and surfaces: oil or pastel colors and canvases or paper respectively. The open curls of the soft and yet throbbing ceramic emphasize the cerebral movement of the pictorial writing while the bright colors of the fluid enamels provide the existential wave of the sign with an even freer and aerial quality. Moreover, in ceramic works, forms and colors are perfectly combined so to reach an apex of formal beauty. Although sea, wave, sky and wheat fields are the subjects which the artist explored at length in her former research, in the ceramics these subjects appear increasingly more distilled and immediate. They are poetic waves of the unconscious translated into sign, a sign which belongs, of course, to a more carefully thought out artistic process, a testimony of the skill of a profound and mature artist. Green and blue seas, gloomy sea, seas interwoven with reflexes, deep seas and seas in verses: all these watery surfaces cover the wavy ceramics of Simona Weller, adding a modern freedom and a joyful character to the fascination of this ancient medium.