Hortus Conclusus / MADEINBRITALY at London Art Fair 2022.

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ORLANDO

Annemette Beck | Freya and Chris Bramble-Carter | Mark Brazier-Jones Tommaso Corvi-Mora | Sotis Filippides | Claudia Frignani | Whitaker Malem | Rosa Nguyen | Tracey Rowledge | Andrea Salvatori

Curated by Valentina Buscicchio & Marco Venturi

Catalogue

Press Release

Deepa Panchamia / Andrea Salvatori duo show

curated by Valentina Buscicchio

Press release

LIFE ON MARS?

Group Show

Nigel Atkinson / BASED UPON / Sara Chyan /Francesco Ardini / Ceramica Gatti /Pastore & Bovina /Violante Lodolo D’Oria

Curated by Valentina Buscicchio

Life on Mars? We like to think so. During last July’s Blood Moon lunar eclipse, planet Mars was at its closest to Earth. There is no need for a century-long wait nor holding on for interplanetary tours to become a reality as the outer space is spreading into our interiors. Furniture elements like grounded meteorites, asteroids becoming decorative objects, planetary shades and subtly disguised moon shapes, otherworldly textures and surfaces resembling infinity. As it appears everything on Earth has already been seen or done, stretching the imagination beyond the boundaries of our small self-contained planet seems to be, now more than ever, a redeeming necessity.

Studio ceramics by Violante Lodolo D'Oria and Bottega Vignoli

Curated by Viola Emaldi

Violante Lodolo D’Oria (Genoa, Italy, 1971) is a London based Italian artist. She studied in Paris and New York, where she graduated in Fine Arts. Before returning to the ceramic medium in 2010, Violante has worked as a painter for a decade, developing a peculiarly refined sense of colour: her painting background is remarkable in her glazing technique and use of colour combination. Violante creates one-off sculptural ceramics inspired by the great Italian baroque architecture. The prominent features of these vessels are the concave-convex spatial effects, the rhythmic distribution of mass and space, the richness in surface decoration and colour alongside an overall impressive complexity of texture. Each piece is hand made using white smooth stoneware clay and fired in oxidation at 1260°C. Violante has developed an incredible glazing technique using a combination of three or more matte and shiny glazes which she masterfully drips and overlays achieving a stage where the colour impacts the texture and the texture exalts the colour itself.

Bottega Vignoli  is a brand of artistic ceramics based in Faenza, one of the most representative ceramic production centers in Italy. Founded in 1976 by sisters Saura and Ivana, Bottega Vignoli stands out for its limited production, accurate details and skilful experimentation resulting in stunning unique and one-of-a-kind pieces. Their style is immediately recognizable and expressly follows the path of Mediterranean majolicas, with inspiration taken from  Byzantine, Roman  and Islamic themes reinterpreted in their own unique style. Bottega Vignoli production includes ornamental pieces, household objects, elements for urban design, limited series and customized lines. The baking with full-fire reduction technique which they use allows them to obtain shimmering colours and iridescent reflexes so that every piece has unique and inimitable features. The decorative themes are historical reinterpretations or completely original ones, but always on the path of research that makes this territory so distinct.

Studio Furthermore - Superimposition

Described as otherworldly, the ceramic works of Studio Furthermore leave tradition behind in favour of a futurist’s perspective. At first glance one may be reminded of the ‘Fat Lava’ glaze work of 70’s. However, the foaming bubbles are not limited to the surface but are themselves the mass of the work. Perhaps it is no surprise that the studio sought cues in naturally occurring phenomena ranging from volcanic formations to asteroid showers from far away places. The resulting ceramic foam structures are the product of extensive material and process experimentation undertaken by Studio Furthermore and known simply as ‘Lost Foam’. This unique replica method involves hand cutting an original design out of a foam block which is then processed and placed inside a kiln. The kiln rises to over 1200ºC causing the foam original to vaporize leaving behind only a one-of-a-kind replica deposit of porcelain or terracotta. What remains is a ceramic item with the exact structure of the foam original throughout.

Giuseppe Ducrot - curated by Viola Emaldi - 22 Feb - 31 March

Giuseppe Ducrot (Rome, 1966) is a versatile artist on a tireless quest for always-new technical and formal solutions. He approached sculpture after beginning his career as a painter and since then he has been constantly experimenting unexplored routes enabling his sculptural works to achieve an unencumbered pregnancy of form and content within the plasticity of the moulded medium. Giuseppe Ducrot ceramic glazed terracotta works reflect his peculiar compositional freedom arising from a unique contamination of styles, mixing references to the past reinterpreted with contemporary awareness. The artist’s manual dexterity, his adherence to the baroque, his way of proceeding along the parallel trajectories of quotation and invention and his construction and dissolution of forms are entirely evident in these works. Ducrot brings technique back to the centerstage, standing as a custodian of an ancient craftsmanship wisdom that knows no temporal bounds: a precious heritage which  encompasses antiquity and contemporaneity

Claudia Losi

The fated human desire for sensemaking

A project curated by Valentina Rossi
 
 
Every story of a there and then is also a story of a here and now. 
Matteo Meschiari, Geoanarchy, 2017
 

On the occasion of the 2017 editions of Frieze Masters and Frieze London, MADEINBRITALY art gallery and Raccanello Leprince present a project by Claudia Losi, curated by Valentina Rossi.
 
Losi’s intervention aims to offer its own perspective to the formal and conceptual relationships that can be read in the juxtaposition of chronologically far away objects by creating a dialogue with few period ceramic pieces. The result is a heteroclite collection where contemporary grammar tries to interweave with the precious past of the applied arts. The fil rouge of the overall display is the representation of animals investigated in Lois’s textile works as a counterpoint to a selection of fin de siècle ceramic vase and plates.
 
Losi's work starts with collages of animal images taken from various scientific studies, more or less contemporary with the ceramics on display. These images are line drawings, often isolated by diorama landscapes aimed at recreating the animals’ original ecosystems. Many of the consulted texts used to narratively position the animal figures they were describing with the result of isolating them and making them become mere graphic signs and tameable images. In the same way in the decoration of objects of use and specifically in handcrafted ceramic tradition, known as well as fantastic animals are portrayed with aim of making them manageable and familiar, turning them in a mere sign contributing to an understandable and aesthetically pleasing narrative. 
One shape calls another, as it happens in these collages printed on fabric, where the thread retains the profiles; in the same way as the shapes of the ceramic objects become the surfaces containing a concluded speech. This contained exhibition wants to be an opportunity to deepen the topic of animality, as well as the relationship between man and nature and nature and culture.
The whole exhibition display relies on the relationship between the formal aspects of the exposed objects and their anti-chronological juxtaposition: as the historical axis between the different works is extremely stretched, the synchronous sound becomes more resonant. 
The equilibrium between the different time periods can be ideally traced back to the several attempts of world exploration through the reconstructions of images and iconographies that see in Aby Warburg and André Malraux the main references. 
The exhibition can be considered as a small first exploration of the artist in a new territory as such fin de siècle applied art.
 
 

Claudia Losi (Piacenza, Italy, 1971) studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Bologna and has graduated in Foreign Languages and Literature at the University of Bologna.

Among her numerous exhibitions in Italy and abroad, the most recent include: Monica De Cardenas Gallery, Milan (2017); Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia; Weaving & We, Second Hangzhou Triennial of Fiber Art, Hangzhou, China; (2016); Triennale Design Museum, Milan (2016); Livorno In Contemporanea; Tenuta dello Scompiglio, Vorno-Lucca (2015); La Maréchalerie_énsa V, Versailles; Studio Orta Les Moulins, Boissy-le-Châtel; MAMbo, Bologna; Monica De Cardenas Gallery, Zuoz (2013); MAXXI, Rome (2012 e 2010); Via Farini-DOCVA, Milan (2011); MAGASIN, Grenoble (2010); Royal Academy, London (2010); Stenersen Museum, Oslo (2009); Museo Marino Marini, Florence (2008); Ikon Gallery, Birmingham (2008).

Anna Barlow (Bristol, UK, 1982)  is fascinated by the way we eat food and especially by the rituals that have developed around celebrational or indulgent treats: the way they are assembled, displayed and then eaten. She explores how food tells a story of the people and place it’s in. A full stand of ice creams could suggest a hot day or treats abandoned for some mysterious reason. Fascinated by the beauty of food left to melt and ooze, she captures this overlooked temporary moment and freezes it in time with the clay and glaze of ceramics.  Her ice cream pieces capture the momentary and yet memorable nature of the treat, they evoke memories of sensations and tastes, as well as prompts our fantasies of desired indulgences. Barlow’s main inspiration is the qualities of materials themselves: clay, porcelain and glaze have so many wonderful possibilities that often translate well to represent food. She masters and amazingly combines these techniques to create a “visual edibility” to the work; it is up to the imagination it of the viewers as to how they will taste.

Fosca Boggi (Faenza , Italy, 1961) can by all means be defined as a pop artist, immediately unmistakably recognizable for her meticulous precision and hyperrealism, using ceramics as a principal medium to express her poetic. Fosca’s attention is captured by forgotten objects and specifically by old toys of her childhood time. The artist operation of sourcing, casting and meticulously reproducingchildren toys with an impressive degree of realism is an open attempt to pause time and crystallize transient memories. Fosca’s works clearly suggest how playing is not just a way for children to create and live in a fantastic imaginary world but it represents their main communication tool and reality interpretation key. The polished stillness of her ceramic toys is somehow metaphysical, suggesting a secret gap between two dimensions which is indeed the main goal of this virtuosic and at the same time conceptual artistic practice.

IN BLOSSOM - Still Lifes by Andrea Merendi - 3 - 31 May 2017

MADEINBRITALY is pleased to announce its involvement in London Craft Week 2017

Andrea Merendi (Faenza, Italy, 1961) is a renowned designer, stylist and paper artist who has revisited his floral knowledge with a strong poetic streak to create bespoke paper flowers. In occasion of London Craft Week, he has partnered up with MADEINBRITALY conceiving a site-specific installation of ad hoc created still life compositions in dialogue with the gallery space. Andrea Merendi is indeed inspired by nature however he takes this inspiration to create completely innovative elements: his flowers are not just copies of natural flowers, they're brand new objects with their own life transcending a mere mimetic intention sharing with their natural counterparts the beauty and the crystalline perfection that only the transience of time can give.
 

Paola Alborghetti, Matteo Antonini, Susanna Janina Baumgartner, Marco Belfiore, Maurizio Bongiovanni, Sergio Breviario, Pierpaolo Campanini, Gianni Caravaggio, Daniele Carpi, Arianna Carossa, Jacopo Casadei, David Casini, Giuseppe Costa,Carl D’Alvia, Valentina D’Amaro, Alessandro Di Giampietro, Barbara De Ponti, Enza Galantini, Daniele Girardi, Paolo Gonzato, Michele Guido, Debora Hirsch, Pesce Khete, Giulio Lacchini, Maria Morganti, Chiara Pergola, Marta Pierobon, Josephine Sassu, Laura Santamaria, Giovanna Sarti, Kristian Sturi, Marcello Tedesco, Luca Trevisani, Lucia Veronesi.

curated by Laura Santamaria

Book Presentation / Signing Tuesday 7 March 5 - 9 pm

Between The Ground And The Cloud   Finissage -  Thursday 20th April 2017 6 - 9pm 

Exhibition 7 March - 31 March - Tue to Fri 3 - 6 pm - Saturday by appointment

MADEINBRITALY is delighted to present “Drawings From Lightning” artists book and a selection of original drawings; the exhibition includes new works by David Casini, Valentina D'Amaro, Alessandro Di Giampietro, Barbara De Ponti, Debora Hirsch, Laura Santamaria.

“The history of artists’ book cannot retrace the functional formality of the history of art and needs more complex, intriguing, and personal routes. Worthy of an ambiguous object which is always trying to be different from what it seems” 1 whilst this statementby Giorgio Maffei seems to declarethe metaphysical nature of the artists’  approach towardstheir productions of books, in our case  the artist book is also intended as a media to explore chosen to reach new audiencesand create a collaboration between artists, public and institutions. “Drawings from Lightning” was initiated in 2013 as a drawings project and it takes its quintessential title from a natural phenomenon where the lightning comes from the ground going towards the sky (Upward Positive Leaders) which clarifies the essence of the artist’s book itself, i.e. introducing the idea of lightning as the chosen element to tell the desire and the necessity of rethinking the role of the artist today, as conjunction between human condition and cosmic energy.

The book is a collection of drawings representing a statement of the artists’ thinking, an expression of an intellectual position which findsin the drawing practice its favorite language.

“As a primary visual language, essential for communication and expression, drawing is as important as the development of written and verbal skills. The need to understand the world through visual means would seem more acute than ever; images transcend the barriers of language, and enhance communications in an increasingly globalized world.”2   With her words Anita Taylor defines the practice of drawing as a point of dialogue between communities and institution andas a peculiar expression of contemporary art: a language able to narratepresent timesin an universalpanorama.

The exhibition presents a selection of works by artists who, through their specific practice and art research, succeed in positioning the drawing media as a point of avant-garde research through their own interpretation of the landscape and its elements as a whole natural environment, in which certain phenomena are the instruments to generate new ideas or ways of thinking.

Lightnings and natural phenomena meant as mirrors of the mind, divine elements and visual perceptions of thought. 

The 2015 small size, oil on canvas work, is an Untitled Landscape by Valentina D’Amaro from the “Vespro”(Vesper) series recently featured in Vitamin P3: New Perspectives in Painting (published by Phaidon Press, 2016). The painting is representing a dark evening lake view, as an ideal continuation of the research of romantic sublime through nature that started with the 2013 drawing “Tra Terra e Cielo” (Between Earth and Sky) conceived for the “Drawings from Lighting” artists book.

The drawing " A ciel sereno" by David Casini represents a tree which has been struck by a lightning and consequently destroyed. This tree is part of a series of images of downed trees conceived across several years (2003-2008).The poetry of thisdrawing pictures the tree in thatinstant of time, when the tree becomes a loneelement isolated from the rest of the landscape, with a sense of intimate relation between the artist’s look and the natural environment: this singular vision leaves the spectator first disorientatedand only laterable to decipher the poem.

“Effetto Punta” (Tip Effect) is the title of the drawing by Barbara De Ponti, which quotes a scientific metaphor taken from the lightning conductor that can still be effective in protecting a structure from lightning’s damage.  It takes this metaphorical pregnancy thanks to reinterpretation of a physical phenomenon   in as the connection between humans: when they eventually manage to establish a clear dialogue and a healthy interaction, the effect becomes a catalyst of energy, giving light to an open circuit of visions that are gathering in unpredictable results.

With the aim to create new contributions to a collective research and shared discussion about symbols, the work “Upward Lightning” by Debora Hirsch is based on the shape of the lightning bolt that struck St. Peter's Basilica's rod the day that Pope Benedict XVI resigned. The lightning is conceived here in the meaning of a conceptual catastrophe whose presence could break the order of an ordinary perspective introducing a new striking unexpected parameter to the analysis.

The “Lightning Series” are ten portraits by Alessandro Di Giampietro that refer to a mystery of a strong intimate energy between the photographer and his subjects. These were in fact the very authors of the drawings, invited to interpret new characters and to give life to unreleased profiles in the continuous identity changeovers which represent the unlimited perspective of human beings.

“Cosmos celebrates its experience through the flame and me” is a work on paper by Laura Santamaria, a drawing made using flame. Anything that involves a transformation, in terms of process and purpose, is like alchemy. It is not a theoretical and cryptic doctrine, but a daily practice that the artist is led to adopt, mostly spontaneously, becoming aware that a work of art not only expresses pieces of the subconscious but also makes visible traces of the cosmos, which finds its expression through the available and open territory of creation.

Drawings From Lightning is a project by Laura Santamaria started on 2013. It is the first collection of drawings in-depth overview of the artists’s interpretation of the theme of the “Upward Positive Leaders” - which is a rare phenomenon visible during the thunderstorms where the lightning comes from the ground going to the sky.  Lightning is the chosen element - a metaphysical symbol - to tell the desire and the necessity of working together.  A wayof rethinking the terms of how to live the artist’s role today.

It offers a rare look into the personalities of some of the most relevant Italian artists living and working today.

The self-published publication “Drawings from Lightning” only 250 exemplars, offset print on Modigliani - Cordenons paper, 44 x 32 x 3 cm, 2016. It was printed in Italy with the gentle support of art passionate, Artphilein Foundation, Choisi - one at the time, Casa Gialla, Bice Bugatti Club, Spazio Morris, Cordenons. Partner BeArt, Juliet art magazine. First presented in Berlin Kunstraum T27 - Kunstverein Neukölln (2014), Studi Festival Milano (2016), Miart (2016), Fonderia Artistica Battaglia, Milano (2016), Choisi - one at the time - Lugano (2016). 

Archive online www.upwardpositiveleaders.tumblr.com

1 Affirmation by Giorgio Maffei “The artist’s book. Instruction for use” was published into “Il Libro come Opera d’Arte / The Book as a Work of Art, The Italian Avant-Gardes in the Twentieth Century as part of the International Panorama, first reprint 2008 Galleria Nazionale D’Arte Moderna, Mibac, Darc.

2The article “Why drawing needs to be a curriculum essential”  by Anita Taylor was published by The Guardian in 2014

Andrea Salvatori solo exhibition

 Following the success of the project launched in occasion of Frieze 2016 at Sloane’s Square Dodo boutique, MADEINBRITALY art gallery is glad to present OOPS!...I DID IT AGAIN, the first gallery-based solo exhibition of Andrea Salvatori. This solo show has been conceived in occasion of Collect, the International Art Fair for Contemporary Objects at the Saatchi Gallery where MADEINBRITALY will be exhibiting

Andrea Salvatori is a visual artist working in ceramics to realise ironic and witty sculptures, sometimes involving a diverse selection of found objects, such as Murano glass vases, Meissen porcelain miniatures or Ginori period ceramics sourced in flea markets around Europe. Salvatori’s works often begin with these items and add an element created by the artist, generating an unexpected semantic shift. The result is unique, encompassing pop culture and kitsch aesthetics: a witty and effective way to turn reality upside-down and at the same time a powerful combination of exquisite craftsmanship and genuine irony.

The dominant note of the ceramic sculptures on display is their whiteness which is functional to emphasise both their aesthetical value and most importantly the ironic narration behind them. The visitor is first immersed in a group of light and airy sculptures where the uncertain equilibrium and the instable fragility of dozens of stars are kept together by a dreamlike magical bound. The exhibition continues with a curious collection of small and large candid pieces each representing an absurd situation where the protagonist is often a small white rabbit. The story-telling of the small animal’s adventures encompasses its fantastic encounters with art quotes of Lucio Fontana, Fischli & Weiss and Piero Manzoni. These are indeed cleverly picked references making these artworks charmingly legible from both an aesthetic and conceptual standpoint.

Andrea Salvatori was born on 3 of March 1975 in Faenza (Ra) - Italy; he has graduated at the Istituto d’arte for the ceramic in Faenza in 1995, and in sculpture at the Accademia di Belle Arti of Bologna in 2000.Since 1997 he has attended several individual and collective exhibitions; in 2007 he classified second at the International Contest of Contemporary Art Ceramics, 55th Premio Faenza, MIC Faenza. In 2009 he classified first at the International Contest Of Contemporary Art Ceramics, 56th Premio Faenza, MIC Faenza.In 2011 he classified second at the Sidney Myer Fund Australian Ceramic Award International, Shepparton Art Museum in Sidney.

Solo exhibitionsFinzioni/Funzioni curated by Irene BiolchiniGalleria Comunale d’arte “La Molinella” Faenza, Ravenna, 2016 Gli specchi dovrebbero pensare più a lungo prima di riflettere curated by Sabrina Samorì and Silvia Battistini, Museo Civico d' Arte Industriale e Galleria Davia Bargellini, Bologna, 2016 Metaceramico curated by Chiara Fuschini, Galleria Ninapi, Ravenna, 2015 Allievo e Maestri curated by ThePoolNYC Gallery, Palazzo Sassoli de’Bianchi, Bologna, 2015 Uncanny Fairy Tales curated by Elena Magini, F-AIR Florence Artist in Residence, Firenze, 2013 Magnitudocurated by Alberto Zanchetta, Museo di Lissone, Lissone, Milano, 2013 Naiv/Vaincurated by Chiara Cardinali, Museo di S. Domenico / Il Pomo Da Damo, Imola, Bologna, 2012 Five Solo Exhibitions curated by Alberto Zanchetta, ThePoolNYC Gallery, Corte Malipiero, Venezia, 2009 Collezione di Ceramiche curated by Alberto Zanchetta, Galleria Estro Padova, 2003 SelectedGroup exhibitionsArtieri Fantastici curated by Enzo Biffi Gentili, Complesso Monumentale di San Francesco, Cuneo, 2016 Terra! 56° Mostra della Ceramica di Castellamonte curated by Olga Gambari, Palazzo Botton, Castellamonte, Torino, 2016 Palazzo con vista curated by ThePoolNYC Gallery, Palazzo Cesari Marchesi, Venezia, 2015 Thesaurus ( Expò in Città ) curated by Fabio Carnaghi, Terme Romane, Como, 2015XXIII° Biennale Internationale Creation Contemporaine et Ceramique curated by Céline Graziani, Vallauris, France, 2014The Hidden Show curated by ThePoolNYC Gallery, New York, 2014 Arte Ceramica oggi in Italia curate by Jean Blanchaert, e / and Viola Emaldi, Villa Necchi Campiglio, Milano, 2013 XXXII Biennale Roncaglia Passato Prossimo curated by Elisabetta Modena, Marco Scotti, Ilaria Bignotti e / and Valentina Rossi,Rocca Estense, San Felice Sul Panaro, Modena, 2012 Tu Sei Un Nome Che Respira E Muove curated by Dacia Manto, Museo della Città, Rimini, 2012 54° Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte della Biennale di Venezia; Padiglione Italia; Regione Emilia Romagna curated by VittorioSgarbi, Chiostri di S. Pietro, Reggio Emilia 2011 ThePoolNYC Exhibition curated by ThePoolNYC Gallery, Mexico City, 2011 Caprice curated by Marco Tagliafierro e / and Davide Tomaiuolo, Galleria Paolo Curti/Annamaria Gambuzzi, Milano 2011 ThePoolNYC Exhibition ThePoolNYC Gallery, New York, 2010 Festa Mobile curated by Davide Ferri e / and Antonio Grulli, Bologna, 2010 Il Castello Di Rivara apre le cantine curate by Francesca Solero, Castello di Rivara,Torino, 2009 Nuove Argille FRAC Baronissi, curate by Irene Biolchini, Galleria dei Frati and Antiche Cisterne, Salerno, 2008 Allarmi III Nuovo Contingente, curated by Cecilia Antolini, Ivan Quaroni,  Alessandro Trabucco, Alberto Zanchetta, Caserma De Cristoforis, Como, 2007 Un Secolo e Oltre, Premio Fabbri II edizione curated by Marina Mojana, Fondazione Del Monte di Bologna and Ravenna, Bologna, 2007 European Ceramic Context 2006, Bornholms Kunstmuseum, Denmark, 2006 XII Biennale dei Giovani Artisti dell’Europa e del Mediterraneo, BJCEM curated by Achille Bonito Oliva, Castel S. Elmo, Napoli, 2005 Quotidiana 04 curated by Virginia Baradel, Guido Bartorelli, Stefania Schiavon, Museo del Santo, Padova, 2004 In Ralenti curated by Alberto Zanchetta, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venezia, 2002 Exposiciones de la U.P.V. / E.H.U., Campus de Leioa, Bilbao, Spain, 1998 Interventi curated by Roberto Daolio e / and Mili Romano, Stazione F.F.S.S, Bologna, 1997

Curated by Viola Emaldi

Francesco Ardini / Oscar Dominguez / Giuseppe Ducrot / FOS Ceramiche / Ana Cecilia Hillar / Antonietta Mazzotti / Pastore & Bovina / Paolo Polloniato / Francesco Raimondi / Robi Renzi / Andrea Salvatori / Bottega Vignoli

We are delighted to have been selected to participate in Collect, the leading international art fair for contemporary objects presented by the Crafts Council.

MADEINBRITALY art gallery is glad to present THE NEW CLASSICS, an exhibition exploring the most contemporary expressions of Italian ceramic through the most archetypical of all forms: the vase. MADEINBRITALY has commissioned the production of a vase to twelve Italian artists and designer-makers representing a broad spectrum of visions, approaches, techniques and materials. The vase element has been chosen as being possibly the most ancient object of use symbolically encompassing the combination of function and aesthetics and the artists have been asked to approach it as a metonym of their vision of the world: a part which stands for the whole. The impressive and very diverse outcomes of this exercise all share a common ground: each piece digs its roots into a classical shape or model which, despite having been revisited and reinterpreted, sometimes twisted and overturned, still remains at the very core of each artwork. This once more shows us how any expression of contemporaneity - reluctantly or enthusiastically, willingly or unconsciously - will have at some point to come to terms with its classical nature.

http://collect17.org.uk/

Canone e fuga

Contemporary art in conversation with fin de siècle Italian ceramics

David Casini / contemporary art

Cantagalli - Ginori / ceramics 

Presented by Bazaart Ltd associated with Raccanello Leprince and curated by Viola Emaldi - this project has been expressively conceived for the 2016 editions of Frieze Masters and Frieze London with the idea of leveraging the ceramic medium as an ideal trait d’union between contemporary and modern art.

The exhibition displays a collection of Italian eclectic and Liberty vases – created at the end of the 19th century by the finest Italian manufacturers - in conversation with the work of David Casini, an Italian visual contemporary artist whose conceptual research has been consistently experimenting diverse languages and media. The artworks on display – chosen by the artist himself – encompass some of the key themes of Casini’s research like the fascination towards a primordial nature and the coexisting interest towards the sophistication generated by human intelligence.

David Casini (Born in Montevarchi, Italy, 1973), lives and work in Bologna, Italy.
Selected solo exhibitions: 2015 – CAR drde, Bologna (Italy); 2014 – Plutschow Gallery, Zurich (Switzerland); SRISA, Santa Reparata International School of Art, Florence (Italy). 2012 – Analix Forever Gallery, Geneva (Switzerland); Spazio Morris, Milan (Italy). 2007 – Mar, Museo d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Ravenna (Italy). 2006 – Analix Forever Gallery, Geneva (Switzerland); Galleria T293,
Naples (Italy).

Selected group exhibitions: 2015 – Il fantasma del disegno, Casa Masaccio Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea, S. Giovanni V.no AR (Italy); Distances, Gelerie EscougnouCetraro, Paris (France).
2014 – SE DISEGNO, Padiglione Esprit Nouveau, Bologna (Italy); Biennale Disegno Rimini, Museo della Citta, Rimini (Italy). 2013 – Immagine d’Io, Triennale di Milano, Milan (Italy); EVERYWHERE BUT NOW, 4th Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporay Art, Thessaloniki (Greece). 2012 – The Mediterranean Approach, SESC Pinheiros, San Paulo (Brazil) and MAC, Musee d’Art Contemporain, Marseille (France). 2005 – Ask the dust, Museo Carlo Zauli, Faenza (Italy).
 

WHITE & WITTY

Ceramic sculptures by Andrea Salvatori

3 October - 3 November 2016

Boutique DoDo - 31 Sloane Square, London SW1W 8AQ

MADEINBRITALY art gallery is glad to present WHITE & WITTY, a special exhibition project launched in occasion of London Frieze Week 2016 aiming at building a bridge between contemporary and applied art. The idea – made possible by the collaboration with Dodo and the Italian Chamber of Commerce and Industry for the UK- is to create an engagement between Andrea Salvatori’ artworks and the interiors of the Dodo Sloane Square boutique across its three floors. 
Andrea Salvatori is a visual artist who leverages the ceramic medium to realise ironic and witty sculptures where animals are often the represented subjects sometimes associated to a diverse selection of so called objet trouvè (found objects) like Murano glass vases, Meissen porcelain miniatures or Ginori period ceramics sourced in flea markets around Europe. The result is unique, encompassing pop culture and kitsch aesthetics: a witty and effective way to turn reality upside down and at the same time a powerful combination of exquisite craftsmanship and genuine irony.
The title of the exhibition- White & Witty- perfectly describes the character of the artworks on display engaging with the interior design of the exhibiting space alternating pure white and bold colours. The exhibition journey starts on the ‘Witty’ side on the ground floor and the first floor where bold colours are the undisputed protagonists. An elephant is surrounded by dozens of coloured spheres, the same that we find upstairs vertically developing in a glass vase like a bunch of grapes. Moving to the lower ground floor the visitor finds himself immersed in a total white experience, with a collection of small and large candid pieces each representing an absurd situation where the protagonist is often a small white rabbit. The story-telling of the small animal’s adventures encompasses its fantastic encounters with art quotes of Lucio Fontana, Fischli & Weiss and Piero Manzoni. These are indeed cleverly picked references making these artworks charmingly legible from both an aesthetic and conceptual standpoint.

Andrea Salvatori was born on 3 of March 1975 in Faenza (Ra) - Italy; he has graduated at the Istituto d’arte for the ceramic in Faenza in 1995, and in sculpture at the Accademia di Belle Arti of Bologna in 2000.Since 1997 he has attended several individual and collective exhibitions; in 2007 he classified second at the International Contest of Contemporary Art Ceramics, 55th Premio Faenza, MIC Faenza. In 2009 he classified first at the International Contest Of Contemporary Art Ceramics, 56th Premio Faenza, MIC Faenza.In 2011 he classified second at the Sidney Myer Fund Australian Ceramic Award International, Shepparton Art Museum in Sidney.
Solo exhibitionsFinzioni/Funzioni curated by Irene Biolchini  Galleria Comunale d’arte “La Molinella” Faenza, Ravenna, 2016 Gli specchi dovrebbero pensare più a lungo prima di riflettere curated by Sabrina Samorì and Silvia Battistini, Museo Civico d' Arte Industriale e Galleria Davia Bargellini, Bologna, 2016 Metaceramico curated by Chiara Fuschini, Galleria Ninapi, Ravenna, 2015 Allievo e Maestri curated by ThePoolNYC Gallery, Palazzo Sassoli de’Bianchi, Bologna, 2015 Uncanny Fairy Tales curated by Elena Magini, F-AIR Florence Artist in Residence, Firenze, 2013 Magnitudo  curated by Alberto Zanchetta, Museo di Lissone, Lissone, Milano, 2013 Naiv/Vain  curated by Chiara Cardinali, Museo di S. Domenico / Il Pomo Da Damo, Imola, Bologna, 2012 Five Solo Exhibitions curated by Alberto Zanchetta, ThePoolNYC Gallery, Corte Malipiero, Venezia, 2009 Collezione di Ceramiche curated by Alberto Zanchetta, Galleria Estro Padova, 2003 SelectedGroup exhibitionsArtieri Fantastici curated by Enzo Biffi Gentili, Complesso Monumentale di San Francesco, Cuneo, 2016 Terra! 56° Mostra della Ceramica di Castellamonte curated by Olga Gambari, Palazzo Botton, Castellamonte, Torino, 2016 Palazzo con vista curated by ThePoolNYC Gallery, Palazzo Cesari Marchesi, Venezia, 2015 Thesaurus ( Expò in Città ) curated by Fabio Carnaghi, Terme Romane, Como, 2015  XXIII° Biennale Internationale Creation Contemporaine et Ceramique curated by Céline Graziani, Vallauris, France, 2014The Hidden Show curated by ThePoolNYC Gallery, New York, 2014 Arte Ceramica oggi in Italia curate by Jean Blanchaert, e / and Viola Emaldi, Villa Necchi Campiglio, Milano, 2013 XXXII Biennale Roncaglia Passato Prossimo curated by Elisabetta Modena, Marco Scotti, Ilaria Bignotti e / and Valentina Rossi,Rocca Estense, San Felice Sul Panaro, Modena, 2012 Tu Sei Un Nome Che Respira E Muove curated by Dacia Manto, Museo della Città, Rimini, 2012 54° Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte della Biennale di Venezia; Padiglione Italia; Regione Emilia Romagna curated by VittorioSgarbi, Chiostri di S. Pietro, Reggio Emilia 2011 ThePoolNYC Exhibition curated by ThePoolNYC Gallery, Mexico City, 2011 Caprice curated by Marco Tagliafierro e / and Davide Tomaiuolo, Galleria Paolo Curti/Annamaria Gambuzzi, Milano 2011 ThePoolNYC Exhibition ThePoolNYC Gallery, New York, 2010 Festa Mobile curated by Davide Ferri e / and Antonio Grulli, Bologna, 2010 Il Castello Di Rivara apre le cantine curate by Francesca Solero, Castello di Rivara,Torino, 2009 Nuove Argille FRAC Baronissi, curate by Irene Biolchini, Galleria dei Frati and Antiche Cisterne, Salerno, 2008 Allarmi III Nuovo Contingente, curated by Cecilia Antolini, Ivan Quaroni,  Alessandro Trabucco, Alberto Zanchetta, Caserma De Cristoforis, Como, 2007 Un Secolo e Oltre, Premio Fabbri II edizione curated by Marina Mojana, Fondazione Del Monte di Bologna and Ravenna, Bologna, 2007 European Ceramic Context 2006, Bornholms Kunstmuseum, Denmark, 2006 XII Biennale dei Giovani Artisti dell’Europa e del Mediterraneo, BJCEM curated by Achille Bonito Oliva, Castel S. Elmo, Napoli, 2005 Quotidiana 04 curated by Virginia Baradel, Guido Bartorelli, Stefania Schiavon, Museo del Santo, Padova, 2004 In Ralenti curated by Alberto Zanchetta, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venezia, 2002 Exposiciones de la U.P.V. / E.H.U., Campus de Leioa, Bilbao, Spain, 1998 Interventi curated by Roberto Daolio e / and Mili Romano, Stazione F.F.S.S, Bologna, 1997

Marriage Italian Style -Design meets ceramic craftsmanship

Ceramics designed by Ugo La Pietra, Ceramica Gatti 1928 and FOS Ceramiche

(curated by Viola Emaldi and Raffaella Fossati)

 Relying on the excellence of Italian craftsmanship has been key to the establishment, the success and the most iconic realisations of Italian Design from the 1950s onwards. Projects and ideas of visionary minds would have not gone so far without skilled hands able to flawlessly turn concepts into objects.

This joint exhibition of contemporary craft galleries MADEINBRITALY – London and FattoAdArte – Milan explores the powerful combination of conceptual vision and skilled craftsmanship showcasing ceramic pieces designed by the internationally renowned designer Ugo La Pietra and realised for (and with) him by Ceramica Gatti 1928 and FOS Ceramiche. A selection of ceramics representative of the contemporary production of the two manufacturers based in Faenza will also be on display: pieces in Italian majolica and lustre by Ceramica Gatti 1928 and exquisite porcelain works by FOS Ceramiche.

A FINE SELECTION

OF

TREASURED OBJECTS 

group exhibition by

Mauro Dell'Orco
Simone Luschi
Antonietta Mazzotti
Fiorenza Pancino
Ivana and Saura Vignoli