In Ellera, the painted village, art becomes an urban landscape and decorates the walls of houses, alleys and squares, lighting up every corner and opening up to sudden suggestions. Through a journey that began in 2012, on the occasion of the seventh edition of the Majolica Festival, the village of Ellera has become an en-plein-air museum of ceramics. The first ceramic panels by important Italian and foreign artists, made in Giovanni Poggi's San Giorgio workshop in Albissola Marina, were affixed to the exterior walls of the houses in the historic center.
In 2016, the final stage of the project was reached, with the installation of the final ten panels, completing a wonderful and unique artistic itinerary, consisting of a total of fifty works.
In 2016, the final stage of the project was reached, with the installation of the final ten panels, completing a wonderful and unique artistic itinerary, consisting of a total of fifty works.
Today all the architectural and naturalistic elements, a unique trait of the village of Ellera, are enhanced by a precious gallery of ceramic art. In addition to furnishing the ancient village, it recalls the role Ellera once played, with its mills of color, which provided the primary element of Albisolese ceramic production.
The walls of the village, laden with a centuries-old history, display ceramics placed in rhythmic sequence, constituting a happy surprise for the visitor, who goes on to discovers them, not only in the square that opens beyond the bridge, but also in the narrow streets that climb upward and in the widenings between the houses.
The walls of the village, laden with a centuries-old history, display ceramics placed in rhythmic sequence, constituting a happy surprise for the visitor, who goes on to discovers them, not only in the square that opens beyond the bridge, but also in the narrow streets that climb upward and in the widenings between the houses.
