An exhibition in Modena compares historicized and contemporary artists, from Melotti to Bertozzi & Casoni

Through Feb. 12, 2023, Antonio Verolino Gallery in Modena is hosting the exhibition In Good Hands, curated by Irene Biolchini. The exhibition aims to question the traditional categories of painting, sculpture, ceramics and textiles, comparing the research of historicized authors and contemporary artists, united by a new way of feeling and understanding matter.

Produced in collaboration with Galleria Giustini / Stagetti in Rome and the Vittoriano Bitossi Foundation in Montelupo Fiorentino, the exhibition brings together some 30 works by Bertozzi & Casoni, Rosanna Bianchi Piccoli, Enzo Cucchi, Alberto Gianfreda, Fausto Melotti, Davide Monaldi, Gio Ponti, Alessandro Roma, Andrea Salvatori and Ettore Sottsass.

“In the exhibition itinerary,” says the curator, "artists from different generations confront each other to highlight how material research knows no ’seasons.’ At a time when ceramics and fabric are protagonists of the critical narrative, increasingly flattened on the aesthetics of seasonal fashion, this exhibition presents the research of the Italian art scene highlighting a path that is sometimes still ’under the radar’ and not always recognized and included in the histories of the contemporary. A trajectory that highlights research that has long remained silent or entered the mainstream scene recently."

The exhibition project is divided into four sections: “Miracle in Milan. Rethinking ceramics,” which focuses on the rebirth of the ceramic material through the works of Gio Ponti, Fausto Melotti, Ettore Sottsass and Rosanna Bianchi Piccoli, who is present in the exhibition with a historicized work, but also with a recent production in which porcelain and fabric coexist; “Rethinking the Object” presents a series of works in which the object of use is negated by Alberto Gianfreda and Andrea Salvatori to support a return to the plastic values of volumes; “Painting All Over” with Enzo Cucchi and Alessandro Roma, two painters who bring textiles and ceramics into a research in which the pictorial datum deals with different surfaces and materials; finally, “Pop a chi?” with Bertozzi & Casoni and Davide Monaldi, in whose works nothing is really as it appears.

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Image: View of the exhibition In Good Hands. Photo by Mattia Santin. Courtesy of Antonio Verolino Gallery.

An exhibition in Modena compares historicized and contemporary artists, from Melotti to Bertozzi & Casoni

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