Women, Sardinians, artists and ceramic masters: the sisters Cristina and Stefania Ariu received the “Donna Sarda 2022” award this morning at the Cagliari Town Hall.
"Two potters of extraordinary skill - the words of the mayor Truzzu during the ceremony in front of a packed hall of the City Council - who have a great ability: that of having used the canons of Sardinian identity in their professional activity. to all of us objects that have become a point of reference, true icons of quality craftsmanship ".
"Cagliari is a welcoming city", added Truzzu referring to the events of the many who, like the two artists, have chosen to settle in the Sardinian capital. "Its strength is in fact that of knowing how to welcome many families who come from many realities and integrate them perfectly". An even more important citizen vocation in these days, when the first children, mothers and women fleeing the war will arrive from Ukraine. “They will be housed in the premises that the municipal administration has made available to them in the retirement home in Terramaini - said Truzzu -. To all the women who, like them, leave their husbands and sons in that land, our best wishes ".
"Everything must be done to stop this absurd war and win diplomacy", concluded the mayor, dedicating the celebrations of 8 March to Ukrainian women in particular.
Complimenting the Ariu sisters and the Lioness for having awarded them the Prize, "today in particular - reiterated the President of the City Council Edoardo Tocco - assumes a significance with a strong symbolic value. The contribution that women never make missing from society is more and more precious ".
Cagliari by adoption, the Ariu sisters come from Mogoro. "Stefania graduated from the Oristano Art Institute, Cristina graduated in Art History", explained Eralda Roscia Fenu, the president of the Cagliari Lioness Lions Club who has organized the event since 1987.
In 2001 the two sisters created an artistic laboratory, "Ariu Ceramiche", a small shop in via Costituzione 16, in the historic center of Cagliari. Passionate study of signs and colors give rise to unique images that enhance the peculiar characteristics of the land and of the women of Sardinia.
This is also evidenced by the bronze portal of the Sanctuary of Bonaria made with their drawings, the collaborations with the writer and journalist Francesco Abate in his book "My mother and other catastrophes", with the director Enrico Pau for the film "L'accabadora", the exhibition "Alba nel 1943", created in Nuoro in 2017, with the architect Pierluigi Piu who involves them in the decoration of one of the London branches of the Sardinian restaurant chain "Olivo", entrusting them with an entire wall which they adorn with a texture in bas-relief.
Numerous institutional and civil authorities also participated in the ceremony at the Palazzo Civico.
(Unioneonline / vl)
