Vasco Nasorri uses various techniques to realize his sculptures. He uses clay mostly, probably, because Vasco started as a ceramist and finds in the “clay” the first instrument to express his creativity. With this material it is possible to model bas-relieves, sculptures of all sizes and whatever the imagination or instinct suggests. Clay is mostly used in realizing vases and tiles, but its plascity makes it also and ideal instrument to give body and form to the artist’s emotions. It is very interesting to observe the birth of a sculpture. The passage from an idea, the movement of the hands while modelling the clay, to the final product is quick.
External tools are not necessary to model clay. The use of the hands in modelling clay increases the artist’s sensibility.
These clay forms, baked at 900° C for twelve hours, become terracotta or else transformed into bronze or plaster casts. “Bronze”, an ancient alloy of copper and tin, will last throughout the centuries. Transforming a sculpture or bas-relief into bronze means that you consider it worthy to last through the centuries, as artists in the past have done with their art pieces.