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Large Rearing Horse |
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At Albisola, where he went after the war, he took up the theme of the horse
again, reworking it in Tullio Mazzotti’s ceramics studio. He experimented with the chromatic and plastic effects of
work in three dimensions, while not abandoning his attention to the theme in painting.
Sassu’s work in this medium shows a certain affinity with contemporary work being
done by Fontana. From this moment on, ceramic sculptures like Horse and Little
Pink Horse of 1948 and Black Horse of
1952 offer themselves as variations on a theme that he treated often from the early 1940s
on: for example in Cavallo sulla spiaggia and Cavalli imbizzarriti of 1942, The
Mares of Abderos of 1943, and Horses of 1944. This subject recurs frequently
throughout his subsequent work, also on a monumental scale, as in the sculpture of 1960 Large Rearing Horse, installed on Via
Brera in Milan. |
