- The Washington Post - "Italian Sculpture"
by Ambrose Clancy
"..Five minutes
away, near the flagpole in Campo Santa
Margherita,
you'll passwhat looks like an expensive haberdasher with fine leather
jackets hanging on a line in the window. What stops you is a leather
sock, bra and a pair of hands holding a human
brain, and then the sudden realization that they are all made of
wood.
Step
into, Loris
Marazzi's studio to the smell of a pine
forest, the heady aroma of the
dolomites, where the wood for Venetian church statuary and altars has been harvested for
centuries.
It's a special kind of hardwood that naturally ages to the rich color of tanned
hides.
Ankle deep in chips and
shavings, Marazzi,
says, "It's not such a great or strange thing to be an artist here". He pointed at the wide Campo, his gestur indicating the
district, the city
itself. "You are respected along with the cafe
owner, the woman who sells you
fish. Art is natural here"
