slab-fired terracotta sculpture. Fired in bucchero, h 20x26x11 cm; incised signature on the body
Leonardo Bartolini, is a Florentine-born ceramist who lives and works in Kumamoto, Japan. Focusing on the structural configuration of the object and the study of surface sensitisation, the artist gives life to ultra-modern architectural-geometric forms in earthy colours and purged of all functionality.