Riccardo Biavati and Bottega delle Stelle

"Biavati was to be found in Via Brasavola and every time he worked with clay he invented a fairy tale: moons, wizards and enchanted birds were among the objects – speechless yet having intimate sounds – progressively emerging from the scorching kiln. They dispensed an other-world charm made up of subdued, ancestral presences revealed by eyes with surreal shapes, be they of a man setting off on a journey or a bird in flight astride a slowly bubbling pot or a Sun resting where the wind is calm.. yet whatever way you look at this strange menagerie it whispers softly: mistake not your target, scrutinise the things hidden in your heart, they are alive and profound, but give you answers that everyday worries stop you seeing clearly … I mean the pleasure that Riccardo gives us and that, at the end of the story, will touch each of us if you care to look into his animated world made of a kind soul that cannot be bought."

Monica Bracardi