Luca Staccioli

Checkout series takes the form of the shopping cart — a cultural object engineered for the circulation of goods, optimised for movement, accumulation, and purchases. Through terracotta and glazed ceramic, the form is reproduced and reduced of scale.

The resulting objects retain the structural logic of the original — the grid, the container, the frame — while detaching it from any operative use. The cart enters a state neither functional nor fully decorative, accumulating as form without content.

« [...] Messy and jaunty, the glazed ceramic series Checkout investigates this same obsessive motif. Like tired quadrupeds pointing their paws into the ground, these colourful sculptures of different sizes occupy the exhibition space. The larger ones recall Marino Marini’s anti-heroes who, having lost their steed, can no longer stand as equestrian monuments. The smaller ones refer to the miniaturisations typical of childhood souvenirs and toys, stereotypes turned into icons. [...]. » Exerpt from Wake-ip call. Di un presente irreale, per un futuro disincantato, by Irene Sofia Comi