The course offers the opportunity to acquire deeper knowledge of different sculptural methods, technical and also theoretical. It explores the human figure in all its anatomical and expressive diversity, as well as animal and inanimate forms. Students will model analytically from the life model, in the round and in bas-relief, with special focus on the dynamics of the body in space.

A further concern of the course is the design and development of sculptural ideas. We believe that scuplting means (among other things) understanding line, rhythm, volumetrics, and the object's placement in a visual space (interior and exterior). Students will work on the imaginative transformation, the reinvention of observed forms. They will handle and experiment with various materials, and analyze structures and supports. Various tecniques will be experimented: modellatura in argilla, in cera, in gesso; formatura in gesso a forma persa.

Students can bring their models (small size are reccomended).