PUTIFERIO

hydra, GR, 2016

project team:
alessandro pasini,paola renda, tomaso piantini with architects srl

service:
kiln design
project management
artist crew

project by:
roberto cuoghi

Putiferio in Latin means “to bring the stink” but can also signify chaos or a small taste of hell. Roberto Cuoghi’s version of Putiferio is an installation depicting an invasion of ceramic crabs that were created by the artist and his crew using archaic firing techniques.

The concept of the project has its origins in Cuoghi’s initial site survey of the Slaughterhouse back in February 2016 when the several mason wasps’ nests that cover the walls of the Slaughterhouse led him to the image of a kiln, a primitive kiln, where to fire moribund creatures; not just a few, but dozens of freaks, an invasion of them, just like the mason wasps and their adaptation to the Slaughterhouse. For the next several months, the artist performed various diverse experiments using sophisticated 3D technology and unpredictable archaic firing processes.