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 sixty years of artistic practice is not so easy to summarize in the same way. Her work explores the relationship between what is more everyday, intimate or simple, 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...
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