Luigi Camarilla

“Contemporary Ex Votos” are oval works of white ceramic in the center of which the palm of a hand is imprinted, ready to “receive”. A three-dimensional symbol representing modern Grace is then placed in that hollow. In the tradition of Catholic popular devotion, the ex-votos testify to the gratitude of the faithful for a saving divine intervention: healings and escaped dangers of a material nature. These author's Ex Votos propose an immaterial conception of Grace Received: Per Talento Received, Per Sorte Ricevuta, Per Passione Ricevuta... are some examples of a reinterpretation that was born with the intention of making the aesthetics of a votive iconography and its contents pass from tradition to current events. The "Yoga Hands" are the latest results of a vocation aimed at plumbing the different sources of Spirituality and the Sacred. The Yoga Hands also have a small hole to be used as an Incense HolderThe author's own words, in an interview, clarify how they were born.“One day I handle one of those Hands, white, of glazed, luminous, intact terra cotta. I look at it as if that open palm were the field in which to represent the personal need for inner balance and Harmony with the Universe which for some time have taken me beyond my interest in the Mediterranean, to the East, to the universe of Yoga, to the sense of its practice, to its powerful symbols. Moved by that intimate suggestion, I painted inside the palm of that hand. With a technique of dots and lines I outlined the scene of joined hands, Mother Syllable, Chakra, decorations, as if they were released there by Henna from a colored India. Mano OM, I baptized it like this, in homage to the vibration that connects the inner universe to the cosmic one. Spiritual Eye and Lotus of Purity were born later, as a natural consequence, to be represented in other Hands. Thanks to the clay of Our mother Earth.