Render the absent, present. It seems the first form of sculpture is linked to an erotic relationship, interrupted. The myth passed down by Pliny the Elder recounts of Butades’, the potter of Corinth, daughter. Who, on the eve of her lover’s departure, traced an outline of his shadow on a wall. Subsequently, her father embed clay onto this silhouette, modelled it, left to dry with other terracotta objects he made, and then baked them in an oven. A sort of erotic exorcism permeates this myth, which on many levels, represents the background development and evolution of “Nu Vaso”.

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