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Natale alla Conca d’Oro

Nativities Bark Natural elements
Single artwork

1.050,00

Description by the artist

The bark of a Sicilian lemon tree, from Palermo’s famous Conca d’Oro, is the village of this Sicilian nativity scene. Three sheep graze on the top of a hill, the Three Wise Man with their gifts rest from their long journey, a little angel peeps out from the top of the cave while Joseph and Mary watch over the Baby Jesus. Instead of the traditional comet star, a stalk of cherry tomatoes from Pachino adorns the Christmas night. My nativities are born from the use of natural materials, poor or recycled. I have created nativities inside oyster shells, ornamental pumpkins, string nests, rudimentary huts and tree barks. The characters inside the nativities are painted on stone with acrylic color, or created using a homemade paste prepared by using cornstarch, vinyl glue and oil, called cold porcelain. They were first modeled, then dressed and painted with care and love.

Details and dimensions

Materials: Bark Natural elements
Dimensions (cm): Height 15, Width 52, Depth 13
Weight (kg): 1.014
Handcrafted in Sicily

The artwork in the Sicilian culture

By the Governance of Sicilian Artisan Foundation

The Conca d’Oro is a vast plain on which lies a good part of the city of Palermo and its surroundings. It develops around the mountains of Palermo and reaches the Mediterranean Sea. It is crossed by the Oreto river. But the real charm of this area, today strongly disfigured by the excessive urbanization, lies in its past, when it was both a lush forest and later became a lush citrus grove with its fruits that gave it that characteristic golden color from which it takes its name.

The artwork features several Sicilian elements including Pachino cherry tomatoes, sweet and delicious, renowned throughout the world.

Photo Palermo, the Conca d’oro, painting, Ettore de Maria Begler, 1909

 

The Governance also suggests

The objective of the Governance is both to safeguard the traditions and ancient crafts of the people of Sicily, and to sustain economically the Artisans and the Artists, both the real ethno-anthropologists of the country.
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