Summary

Sculpture and dance are siblings. Both evoke body awareness and are present in space.
Dance creates rhythm through movement and lives in transience. Sculpture condenses visual rhythms into a lasting spatial architecture. Postures and gestures tell stories, volumes and proportions illustrate characters. By modeling a figure, we express a physicality, articulate a concept of style and formulate a world of imagination.
Observations of nature, plant, animal or human bodies are the starting point for the modeling studies.

Course program:
In order to be able to model a free-standing figure with the soft clay,
we reinforce it with a reinforcement. Delicate sculptures are also made
stable and fireable, with a load-bearing inner skeleton of elastic wire and absorbent fibers.
wire and absorbent fibers. A targeted, careful bonding of the three
three materials with each other enables the combination of the three
material properties.
Day 1: Drawing and sketching
Day 2: Shaping the wire skeleton
Day 3: Preparations for volume build-up
Day 4: Modeling
Day 5: Modeling, observation
We draw the expression and proportions of the body. With the help of the drawings
the skeleton, to which we sew plant fibers and then model the figure with clay.
the figure with clay.
Accompanying substructure with stylistics, art history of sculpture,
history of the development of the human image.

Course objective:
To cultivate and develop the human image with contemporary formal language.
Refine anatomical knowledge. Deepen body awareness and body expression
deepen.
Reflecting on artistic questions: plastic means of expression,
sculptural interpretation and sculptural composition.

Course language: German.
Language skills Course management: IT / FR / EN

The retreat at a glance

The most important facts in a nutshell:

Categories: Modeling, Creative Retreats, Sculpting, Nanas / Objects
Date: 2026-04-26 - 2026-05-01
Language(s): English, German
Level: Beginner
Place: Peccia, Switzerland
Accommodation: not included
Catering: No meals
Services: All necessary tools are provided by us.

Our courses are taught and supervised by highly qualified instructors.

The atmosphere in the studio is ideal for getting started in artistic work.

The didactics of the Scuola di Scultura combine practical creative work with theoretical consolidation.

Working together in the course groups encourages creative design.

The Scuola di Scultura maintains its buildings, workplaces and technical facilities to a professional standard.

Accommodation

Ambience of the houses
If you rent a room in one of our course houses, you will be staying with the other participants in one of the old Ticino houses in the area. The original furnishings are charming and the atmosphere around the open fire is very cozy...
Costs:
Double room for 1 week: 200.- CHF
Single room for 1 week: 300.- CHF
Please bring your own towels, bed linen is provided.
Hotel rooms or a rustico (Ticino vacation home) can also be rented as accommodation, we will be happy to help you arrange this!

Catering

Breakfast and lunch will be organized by the participants themselves and can be arranged freely, in the evening there will be a meal together in one of the accommodation houses in Prato Sornico.

Various chefs are happy to cook for our course participants and offer dinner in the Ex-Osteria Mignami during the week (Mon-Fri). Dinner costs CHF 26 including starter/main course/dessert (drinks such as wine, beer etc.) can be purchased from them by the bottle.

sequence

Arrival

Arrival is by car or public transport.

Arrival by car via Gotthard (A2) / San Bernardino (A3 / A13) or Chiasso (A2) / exit "Bellinzona Sud/Locarno" direction Locarno (main road) / tunnel Locarno / exit "Vallemaggia/Centovalli/Onsernone" (DO NOT leave Locarno!) direction Vallemaggia (from the end of the tunnel 40 km to Peccia)

Coming from western Switzerland and Valais: Simplon route to Domodossola / Centovalli / Ponte-Brolla, then turn left into Vallemaggia (from here 35 km to Peccia)

Arrival by public transport from Locarno SBB station. Take the "Vallemaggia" bus to Bignasco, then change to the Postbus to the "Peccia Paese" stop.

Arrival in Peccia: Turn left towards Piano di Peccia, after 30 meters there is a bridge over the river, here you can park your car on the left. The sculpture school is located directly on the river opposite the former stone processing company Cristallina S.A.

Scuola di Scultura 1, 6695 Peccia, Ticino, Switzerland

Cancellation policy

After this, if you cancel up to the day of arrival, you will receive a 100% refund of the booking price.

Cancellation of course/seminar/accommodation: From registration up to 4 weeks before the start of the course/seminar, a cancellation fee of 10% will be charged for the course, seminar and accommodation. 4 weeks or less before the start of the course/seminar, a cancellation fee of 50% will be charged. If you cancel 1 week or more before the start of the course/seminar, the entire fee is due unless you provide a replacement.