Representing the material state in which the perfect grade of metallic oxidation is reached, “Metamorfosi” achieves an aesthetic result that the author – Marco Casamonti - appropriately defines as the visual transfiguration of the “patina of time”.

Marco Casamonti set out to fix the surface effects created on a series of porcelain stoneware slabs which, through an alchemy made possible thanks to modern technology, manages to create large natural, treated or patinated metallic surfaces. It is not so much a design, as a carefully studied process of metamorphosis of the material, teetering between the metallisation of ceramics and the transformation of the latter into metals with various effects;