Audio tour ROOM 3 - THE TRANSFER TO RAPINO AND THE APPROACH TO PAINTED MAJOLICA

After the sad ending of the Great Illustration, Basilio Cascella decided to put aside lithography and experiment with ceramics. In 1917 the Cascella family moved to Rapino (CH), a small town in Abruzzo’s hinterlands with a great tradition for the manufacturing of ceramics, and they founded a small workshop. While his sons Michele and Tommaso distinguished themselves in painting, Gioacchino, the youngest of the three, remained tied to ceramic art and his beloved Rapino for his entire life. The artist confided his strongly desired lifestyle choice in an interview with the journalist Franco Simongini: "I could have gone to Rome, I could have gone to live in Milan, but where would I find that freedom, that air, that silence, that green that I find here in Rapino? ».