Terracotta sculpture depicting a monochrome Lot of Sicilian immigrants Gaetano Romano, master figuraio ...

Terracotta sculpture depicting a monochrome Lot of Sicilian immigrants Gaetano Romano, master figuraio (Caltagirone Caltagirone 1926-2015). H 28 cm, base 30x15. Signed on the base left and dated 1966 Caltagirone.

"Heir of the Calatina figurine tradition, we can consider him the last true master of this art, improperly defined minor but fully capable of representing characters which with their simplicity inhabited a poor world, made of humble and poor people, dressed only with the dignity that the daily hardness of fatigue and hard work could not cancel. So from the skilled hands of the Roman master sprang and took shape from clay, u ’scarparu, u’ ricuttaru, u ’firraru, u’ siggiaru, u ’cavagnuaru, Etc. A real artist, as his characters are the so-called "losers" like those of this group, identical to those of Verga and Capuana. Men with faces marked by fatigue and resignation, who live a life that gives them only the chance to either survive or emigrate. A popular and peasant world no longer a reality, which crowded and populated the master's mind like shadows of characters that his skilled hands translated into the creation of the molded paper. If we could put his small works together, we would compose a narrative of lives that the artist wanted to testify, parallel and similar to the one that Gesualdo Bufalino brought to us in his writings."STUDIO ASOR