Fausto Melotti Ceramics

On view through 18 june fausto melotti features drawings ceramics and sculptures from the early 1930s through the mid 1980s including the artist s plaster bas reliefs fantastical terracotta teatrini little theaters and signature lithe brass sculptures.

Fausto melotti ceramics.

Fausto melotti was a mid century italian modernist sculptor and installation artist. Fausto melotti 1901 1986 was an italian sculptor ceramicist poet and theorist. I enjoyed drawing on the white surface of majolica being smooth and absorbent. The ceramics in the giardino di melotti collection offered at auction on 27 november in milan were brought together by a collector who thanks to the stimulating and fervent atmosphere of milan in the 1960s grew up surrounded by design by albini castiglioni and joe colombo among others.

When i began to work in ceramics drawing was all important for me. Find an in depth biography exhibitions original artworks for sale the latest news and sold auction prices. Fausto melotti ceramics on display in the collector s home. 266 related example italy skira editore casati tel 312 421 9905 fax 312 421 0840 info casatigallery com www casatigallery com.

Biography working in an array of materials including wood wire plaster and ceramics fausto melotti is known for creating curious surrealist sculptures in which symbolic forms express what has been described as the inner realms of human experience. Fausto discovered ceramics in the late 80 s attending courses at the state institute of art of ceramics in faenza. I used to inscribe any surface it offered plates cylinders jugs vases. In 1918 he enrolled in the faculty of physics and mathematics at the university of pisa a course of studies that he continued at the politecnico in milan where he graduated in electrotechnical engineering in 1924.

Sep 17 2019 explore carol s board fausto melotti on pinterest. Antonella commellato and marta melotti fausto melotti. View fausto melotti s 1 187 artworks on artnet. He turned his attention to ceramics after the war and.

Fausto melotti was born in rovereto trento on the 8th of june 1901. He was an integral part of the artistic and intellectual fabric of postwar italy and he befriended and worked with many of its leading members such as lucio fontana gio ponti giorgio de chirico and alberto burri to name a few. L opera in ceramica fausto melotti. See more ideas about ceramics vase ceramic sculpture.