I wanted to create a sun in clay, to place on a wall in my home.
A sun with which to establish something similar to an emotional dialogue.
Not a simple decorative element, but an artwork capable of transmitting joy and light through form and color. From the very beginning, I sought to represent a new, contemporary sun—far from traditional depictions—something with its own identity and a living presence within space.
For me, the sun is not only a symbol: it is a force, an energy that runs through everyday life and that can inhabit places.
My research comes from a deep necessity.
At the age of seventeen, I experienced a trauma that radically changed the way I lived: an accident that, beyond preventing me from walking, made me glimpse a closed future — sad, full of regret.
Unable to accept that outlook, I searched for a way out. At first, I found it in music, which became my lifeline. As I grew older, continuing to search for the happiness I felt was possible, I chose to pursue visual art.
Working with clay became a way to free myself, to dissolve mental chains, and to give form to a creative call I felt as essential.
I consider myself a creator, a small craftsman who seeks, through matter, to imprint joy, lightness, movement, and time.
In 1996 I decided to model my first sun.
To give the sculpture greater visual strength, I created it inspired by the compass rose.
A central circular body, and around it, detached rays.
In the center I impressed two eyes, a nose, and a mouth: a representation suspended between mask and face. Not a human face, but a presence—a generic, symbolic creature meant to represent safety, stability, and energy.
Around the core I arranged the rays:
four large ones at the cardinal points—north, south, east, and west;
four medium ones at the intercardinal points;
eight smaller ones placed in the intermediate spaces.
Their variety and arrangement were meant to evoke movement and action. On each ray, I developed a decoration recalling flames—flames of fire, flames of the sun.
With the same style and form, but through different techniques, firings, and colorations each time, I have continued to rework this sun, creating many different suns—distinct and unique.
The Mad Sun is a handcrafted artwork, entirely made by hand.
It is offered in different models, but each sun remains unrepeatable.
And it is precisely because it is “mad” that it enters homes freely:
it adapts to a wall, fits behind a sofa, above a bed, on top of a door, or on an exterior wall overlooking a garden or terrace.
It is a new decorative art object, designed for both indoor and outdoor spaces, an alternative to the traditional painting, capable of giving space a new breath.
The Mad Sun is not a closed object.
It asks for the participation of the person who welcomes it.
Not only in choosing where to place it, but also in how to arrange its elements: the rays can be brought closer together, creating a compact and intense form, or spaced apart, like an explosion of color and light.
In this dialogue between artwork and space, between artist and viewer, the sun continues to transform.
It becomes part of the home, of everyday life, of the story of the one who adopts it.
My idea is to create a Mad Sun whose rays can illuminate the home that hosts it—not only physically, but emotionally.
Each sun carries a gesture, a pressure, a time.
It is an object that lives, that changes with the gaze of those who observe it, that invites a relationship made of light, warmth, and joy.
A sun that does not remain hanging on a wall, but truly enters the space and life of those who encounter it.
Each sun is born with a different character.
If you don’t know where to start, simply follow what you seek for your space:
– If you desire a work that calms, embraces, and creates atmosphere, leaving room for breath, meet the Suns of Stillness
– If you are looking for a presence that asserts itself, orients, and gives character, enter the Suns of Fire
If you want to bring into space movement, rhythm, and lightness explore the Suns of Joy
– If you are drawn to a work that looks back at you, expresses itself, and creates relation, discover the Suns of Encounter
– If you love freer forms that narrate, deviate, and surprise, let yourself be guided by the Suns of Journey and Vision
No need to choose with the mind.
Often, it is the space itself that recognizes what it needs.
