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MATERALLO
Keep Life, 2023
Photo: Keep Life
Materallo is not a simple rooster but represents
the rooster that lives on the roofs of Matera,
which, unlike the cockerels on the weather vanes,
was used not to signal the direction of the winds,
but to close the ues of the chimneys. However, it
shared the function of bringing good luck to the
house with its sheet metal counterparts. This task
that popular culture has attributed to it probably
derives from the symbolic value that the rooster
had in art, i.e. the triumph of good over evil, the
Resurrection and the victory of life over death,
evidently linked to his crowing which marked the
transition from darkness to light.
Materallo has a positive and auspicious meaning
for those who want to own or give it as a gift; but
above all it wants to oer a moment of leisure for
adults and children. It is, in fact, a puzzle, like a
Tangram, but three-dimensional.
In this puzzle game, however, it is possible to
make mistakes, because, by assembling Materallo,
many other fantastic animals could nd a home on
the roofs of Matera.
Materallo is not a simple rooster but represents the rooster that lives on the roofs of Matera, which, unlike the cockerels on the weather vanes, was used not to signal the direction of the winds, but to close the ues of the chimneys. However, it shared the function of bringing good luck to the house with its sheet metal counterparts. This task that popular culture has attributed to it probably derives from the symbolic value that the rooster had in art, i.e. the triumph of good over evil, the Resurrection and the victory of life over death, evidently linked to his crowing which marked the transition from darkness to light.
Materallo has a positive and auspicious meaning for those who want to own or give it as a gift; but above all it wants to oer a moment of leisure for adults and children. It is, in fact, a puzzle, like a Tangram, but three-dimensional.
In this puzzle game, however, it is possible to make mistakes, because, by assembling Materallo, many other fantastic animals could find home on the roofs of Matera.
