CHANGE Exhibition / Ceramic Centre Furnace Pagliero, Castellamonte, Italy
28 July – 7 October, 2012
Change, an innovative title that wants to send a strong message about the communicative potential of ceramics in contemporary art world. The objective is clear: it is Castellamonte, the city of stoves, together with the furnace Pagliero, the oldest factory in the suburb wisely restored by owner Daniel Chechi, now a center avant-garde cultural production and to send a new message on the potential and the language of contemporary ceramics. A spirit of continuity with the past, but also breaking, where twelve artists invited to exhibit created specific works of great communicative power, which are fully included in the Olympus of contemporary art.
Artists: Silvia Calcagno, Terry Davies, Mariano Fuga, Gian Genta, Rita Miranda, Simone Negri, Brenno Fish, Jasmine Pignatelli, Franco Rampi, Paola Staccioli
Curator: Silvia Campese
The artists, selected as the most important names in art pottery, have identified a specific site within the architectural splendor of the furnace, creating the appropriate specific interventions designed for the site.
A separate section is devoted to the potter Savona Sandro Lorenzini, the author appreciated not only in Europe, which has made almost all the works shown in the Furnace Pagliero, invited by Daniele Chechi as an “artist in residence”.
The show joins “The metaphysical dream” by Giorgio de Chirico and Lisa Sotilis and “Figures of fire” by Bernard Aubertin, Elio Torrieri, Lilian Rita Callegari, and Umberto Mastroianni. A complex work, supported by the critical point of view by the Director of the International Museum of Applied Arts Today MIAAO, Enzo Biffi Gentili.
Exhibition catalog, edited by Silvia Campese, with texts by Enzo Biffi Gentili, Silvia Campese; Eos graphics, Presscolor printing.
Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Friday, 4 – 7 pm. Saturday – Sunday, 10 – 12.30 am & 3 – 7 pm.
CONTACT
ceramichecielle@libero.it
Tel. 0124 582642
Ceramic Centre Furnace Pagliero
Fraction Spineto, 61
Castellamonte (TO)
Italy
www.fornacepagliero.it
Above: Mariano Fuga, exhibited work. For more images, click here.
