Ehsan Shayegh (Iran, 1975)Linea terra acqua, 2023Pietra lavica e smalti He lives and work in Verona, Italy. As a child in Khash, he used to play with clay and water. He made figurines in the shape of animals and geometric figures and placed them to dry on the windowsill. Today, as a grown-up man, he continues to use clay and water in his practice. In his artistic world, Shayegh is very much engaged with themes of ecology, climate change and global warming. Since 2012, he often uses lava stones as a symbolic representation of the primordial element of our planet. Lava stones come originally from Earth’s interior and are expelled during eruptions. In this process, the stones change shape and form, becoming a metaphor for the alterations that always take place inside human beings and societies.In ‘Linea terra acqua’, the lava stones are beautifully enriched by splashes of colourful enamel paints. Lava stone, by its very nature, is dark and has depressions of different sizes. The enamel paints used by the artist emphasize this characteristic and transform the stone into a sculpture. Signed. Provenance: artist.