Author: Aldo Cibic'Small Ritual Landscapes' is a book and an exhibition: through a family of eleven small ceramic landscapes, it recounts Aldo Cibic’s first encounter with the Chinese ceramic culture in Jingdezhen, the place where it all began. Here Cibic came into contact with a craft practice that involves assembling flat or slightly curved ceramic slabs to create essential geometric forms, as well as the use of coloured clay bodies, which are available there in an infinite range of hues.'Small Ritual Landscapes' brings together the many worlds that Cibic inhabits and observes with both a fascinated and rigourous gaze, combining a design-oriented approach with a poetic tension, always in search of an unexpected point of view and an opportunity to evoke a moment of domestic wonder.This is how Aldo Cibic describes the origin of the series exhibited in the show:“...they were more like fragments than actual pieces, and they formed a charming little family made up of different characters and different colors which, to my great surprise, ultimately worked well together.”"I realised that everything was in fact already there. Rather than complete pieces, they were fragments. A charming little family of distinct characters and colours which, much to my surprise, worked remarkably well together."ISBN 9791254932025. Edizioni Corraini. pb. 64 pages. 21 x 15 cm.available
