Ernesto, Pink Ceramic Pot edition by the artist Carlos Manuel Gonçalves

This ceramic sculpture represents a fantastic figure, somewhere between a character and a creature, with an expression that is both naive and provocative. The modelling accentuates its playful character, as if it had a life of its own and a story to tell, arousing in the viewer an immediate reaction of surprise and humour.

This work is part of Carlos Manuel Gonçalves' very own universe, where imagined beings appear that seem to be born of old memories and a free imagination, fuelled by contact with rural daily life and the figures and animals that inhabit both the real world and the countryside. Between the amusing and the symbolic, the play reflects this territory where fantasy and memory meet, shaping presences that watch us and discreetly invite us to smile.