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closed Picasso. The challenge of ceramics

Curated by: Harald Theil e Salvador Haro

The show

50 unique pieces from the collections of the Musée National Picasso-Paris will be on display at the MIC in Faenza, from 1 November 2019 to 13 April 2020, in a large exhibition entitled "Picasso, The challenge of ceramics" curated by Harald Theil and Salvador Haro with the collaboration of Claudia Casali. A nucleus of inestimable value and an exceptional loan that addresses the entire path and creative thought of the Spanish artist towards clay.

In the Faenza exhibition, Picasso's sources of inspiration will be analyzed, starting with the artefacts present in the MIC collections. Classical ceramics (with black and red figures), Etruscan buccheri , Spanish and Italian folk ceramics , Italian fifteenth-century graffiti, iconography of the Mediterranean area (fish, fantastic animals, owls and birds) and the earthenware of cultures pre-Hispanic that will be exhibited in a fertile and unprecedented dialogue with Picasso's ceramics.

And a special section will be dedicated to the relationship between Picasso and Faenza. There are several pieces by Picasso that the International Museum of Ceramics in Faenza owns thanks to Tullio Mazzotti of Albisola, Gio Ponti and the Ramié spouses who were urged to request some artifacts from the Master for an exhibition in Faenza and, above all, , for the reconstruction of the collections of modern ceramic art destroyed in the massive Allied bombing in May 1944. Thanks to the then director Gaetano Ballardini, as well as founder of the Faenza Museum, who contacted Picasso in Madoura with a moving and truly touching letter. So it was that in 1950 the first oval plate depicting the Dove of Peace arrived, a memento against all war, expressly dedicated to the Museum of Faenza and to the tragic fate of its Collection and its structure. Other dishes followed in 1951 with faun heads and vases with an archaic and archaeological flavor and the large vase "The Four Seasons" (1951), graffitied and painted, with the pictorial and morphological representation of four female figures, whose sinuous forms are substantiated by the lit curvature of the vase.

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viale Alfredo Baccarini, 19
48018 Faenza

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Gio Ponti

Until 13 October 2024


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