Over the last year, 25 internationally-recognized artists from all over the
world have descended on Albisola where they have addressed the town's
centuries-old ceramics tradition.
All of the works produced by the artists in collaboration with local
craftsmen will be featured in an exhibition to be held from 21 July, 2001
through 31 August, 2001, in Albisola (Liguria, Italy).
In an homage to the twentieth-century avantgarde tradition, some of the
prime examples of which found an outlet in Albisola, the exhibition
presents, along with the works of the invited artists, a selection of works
in ceramics produced by Lucio Fontana, Pinot Gallizio, Asger Jorn, Wifredo
Lam and Piero Manzoni from the second half of the last century during their
lengthy stays in this town in Liguria.
The combination of participating artists and local craftspeople, along with
the international critics and curators who have provided theoretical texts
for the catalogue, ensures the rich dialectic link-up between tradition and
modernity, global and local, which underpins this exhibition. The whole
multi-cultural exchange points to the Happy Face of Globalization, in stark
contrast with the rampant leveling of culture which is underway on a
planetary level.
Cooperation, mobility, hospitality and metamorphosis are also behind the
exhibition's move, in Summer 2002, to the Ariana Museum, Geneva.
Curators: Tiziana Casapietra and Roberto Costantino
Venues: Museo Civico d'Arte Contemporanea, Via dell'Oratorio, Albissola Marina;
and Museo della Ceramica Manlio Trucco, Corso Ferrari 193, Albisola
Superirore (Savona, Italy)
Participating artists:
Anna Laura Alaez (Spain)
El Anatsui (Ghana)
Bertozzi & Dal Monte Casoni (Italy)
Bili Bidjocka (Cameroon)
Loris Cecchini (Italy)
Nina Childress (France)
Nicola Costantino (Argentina)
Uros Djuric (Serbia)
Sohela Farokhi (Iran)
Daniel Firman (France)
Rainer Ganahl (Austria)
Kristian Hornsleth (Denmark)
Elke Krystufek (Austria)
Lou Laurin Lam (Sweden)
Soo Kyung Lee (Korea)
Gianni Motti (Switzerland)
Luca Pancrazzi (Italy)
Perino & Vele (Italy)
Alessandro Pessoli (Italy)
Jane Simpson (England)
Momoyo Torimitsu (Japan)
Costa Vece (Switzerland)
Luca Vitone (Italy)
Sislej Xhafa (Cosovo)
Yuan Shun (China)
Project and organization: Attese onlus (non-for-profit cultural
organization) directed by Tiziana Casapietra and Roberto Costantino
In collaboration with: La Casa dell'Arte, Studio Ernan Design, Ceramphoto
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