THE SHAPES OF FIRE will be opened on Saturday, September 28, 2024 at 7 pm.
The exhibition, which has the patronage of the Municipality of Oristano - Department of Culture and Department of Productive Activities, presents to the public a display of about 70 works ranging from the early 1950s to the present day.
Angelo Sciannella
Born in 1938 in Castelli, an Abruzzo town with a long and prestigious ceramic tradition, Angelo Sciannella trained at the Castelli School of Art and then at the Venice Art Institute, where he graduated in1957. In the following years, he worked at several artistic ceramic factories in Venice, Rimini and Castelli as a designer. His move to Sardinia, which took place in 1962 thanks to the call of the then director Arrigo Visani, coincided with his taking up his post at the Oristano Art Institute as holder of the chair of "Ceramic Design" and director of the adjoining laboratories; his teaching, creative and materials research activities, carried out within the Institute until 1997, made a significant contribution to a unrepeatable season of great cultural ferment in the Oristano area of which the school was a point of reference. He has also taught at the European Institute of Design in Cagliari and at the I.S.O.L.A. Pilot Center in Assemini and held various representative positions in the craft sector.
Since 1956 he has participated in important festivals and competitions in national and international spheres, obtaining prestigious prizes and awards; among them are the Targa d'Oro at the Gualdo Tadino International Competition (1963, 1970, 1983 prize); the Gold Medal in Faenza (1975); the 2nd Prize in Cagliari (1977); the 1st Prize in Assemini (1985); and the Diploma of Honor awarded by the city of Moncalieri (1998). He has also taken part in numerous exhibitions and temporary shows in Italy and abroad with his ceramics. His works can be found at the prestigious International Museum of Ceramics in Faenza and in other public and private collections in Italy and abroad. In the 1980s he opened a ceramic workshop in Cabras where he still operates.
His creative activity, in which a large part has been ceramics of use, has been accompanied by constant research and experimentation with materials, particularly stoneware from Sardinian quarries and porcelain.