Madola: An Ancient Fire

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Image courtesy of Fundació Vila Casas.

If Madola's work can be encapsulated in three essential elements such as earth, water and fire—as well as in certain simple hand gestures that she applies to the material like flattening, building up, cutting, transforming—then the depth of the sculptural work she has created over the course of nearly 60 years of artistic practice is not so easy to summarize in the same way. Her work explores the relationship between the everyday, and the most profound, spiritual and even sacred aspects of life. Two sides that meet in the same gesture or in the same form: between a house and a temple, between a vase and a chalice, between a table and an altar, between a box and an urn, between a stone and a monument.

She has always been loyal to the same material—ceramics—and her work is deeply rooted in an ancestral practice of working with the primordial elements. Her main focus is the forms of architecture that humanity has developed in distinct periods and different cultures.

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