During this pottery workshop in a typical cave you will make by yourself a small ceramic artefact by shaping on a potter’s wheel helped by a local professional ceramist.
You will be able to discover the architectural and scenic beauty of the city of Matera and you will be able to experience at first hand, inside a craft workshop, the ancient art of pottery making.
Terracotta and ceramic objects are part of Lucania’s noble craft tradition. In the beginning they were everyday objects such as amphorae, jugs, plates and glasses made from dried or baked clay, then with the passage of time they became true artistic and aesthetic elements, also thanks to pictorial decoration.
The workshop will enable us to learn and experiment with some techniques resulting from local craftsmanship.
Roughness and ripples of mineral and telluric ceramics that recall the gullies between Aliano and Montalbano Jonico, creating a bridge with the cultural landscape of Basilicata.
“This land speaks to us”, says the architect and designer, “it frees with its signs the voices that groan in it. I listen to it, I pick up its voice and build objects that interpret it”.
Directing the workshop, as well as our work, will be Biagio, an architect and ceramist from Lucania who, in his workshop, creates design objects with the raw material wisely chosen and worked with his own hands.
The object that will gradually take shape can be customised and will represent your indelible memory of the most authentic Lucania.
The workshop offered here is the ideal experience to combine with a guided tour of the Sassi of Matera.
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2 hours every day, sunday excluded, at 5.00 pm
It’s recommended to wear clothes that can get dirty
Max 2 people