Andrea Viviani’s ceramic sculptures reflect the polymorphic variety and dynamic development of natural complexity. It is extrapolated from the defenseless block of petrous terracotta which, through an alchemical operating process, mastered by the “artiflex bonus” with great manual and technical skill in mixing and firing, shaping and turning, reveals unexpected intrinsic qualities of the material, thanks to the progressive emergence in reduction of oxygen of the minerals contained in the enamels that cover the surface, of metallic glows, opalescence effects, or copper plating from gold to red-brown and from blue to purple, following the dictates of the ancient Japanese technique of Raku firing, born in the sixteenth century A.D. A process that, going beyond mere mimesis, adapts to the metamorphic needs of natural matter to reveal its innate beauty, subject to the unexpected and approximation, which puts the artist in a synergistic empathy with the biological rhythms of growth and germination of the ecosystem that surrounds him. Irregular shapes of organic inspiration thus emerge, similar to volcanic basalts, rocky concretions, corals, iridescent stones, minerals of multifaceted iridescence, covered with graphemes of delicate pictorial virtuosity, or houses of metaphysical allure and fish of grotesque expression, sometimes stacked in totems of ascetic abstraction meandering upwards in a proliferation of elements that expand outwards in an open and articulated perceptive relationships with the environment.