Jonisk Majolica 1

Italian maiolica
Clay extruder

21x9x10 cm

Based on that Scoppola has named many of his fish sculptures through a play with the Swedish language (with some paraphrasing of the Swedish vowels å, ä and ö) combined with characteristics in the different sculpture bodies such as shape, color settings, expressions, or elements from the creating process, Jonisk Majolica 1 has received its name based partly on that the sculpture is made of Italian maiolica clay, partly from its shape and that it makes number 1 in a sculpture series of three:

“Jonisk maiolica comes from the childish idea that in the ionic sea the fish have ionic shapes, like in ionic classical order with spirals.”