The 2021 ceramics exhibition presented in Turin: ribbon cutting on Saturday 21 August. Lots of news
CASTELLAMONTE. The Castellamonte Ceramics Exhibition turns 60. The 2021 edition, after a year of stoppage due to Covid, was presented this morning in the Piedmont Region. Ribbon cutting Saturday 21st August. The exhibition will be open until 12 September.
With a great return: the works will also be outdoors and, as in the past, in the Rotonda Antonelliana, the square surrounded by the imposing walls of the unfinished church by Alessandro Antonelli. The heart of the exhibition, at Palazzo Botton, is the international competition “Ceramics in love – three”, for which works by 120 artists from 25 different countries have been selected. These include those of the sculptor and ceramist Renzo Igne, twenty years after his death.
“The exhibition is the flagship of an overall project that concerns ceramics, a brand recognized throughout Italy. We are working for a relaunch of the territory that passes from an art and a profession that are part of our history”, explains the mayor of Castellamonte, Pasquale Mazza.
“There is a strong will of the territory to be vital – adds the Councilor for Culture of the Piedmont Region, Vittoria Poggio – the network work that brings together public and private is the right way. Castellamonte ceramics are an excellence of Piedmont and we can only support an event that serves precisely to make it known. It is a project of great substance and all the conditions are in place to benefit from a positive impact on the territory, even economically, thanks to networking “.
At the Piero Martinetti congress center, on the other hand, the permanent exhibition of “sound ceramics” will be set up, that is the collection of terracotta whistles donated by Clizia, the ceramist Mario Giani. A selection of the approximately three thousand ceramic pieces from all over the world that are part of the collection. The promoters of the exhibition, supported, among others, by the Piedmont Region, the Metropolitan City of Turin, the Crt Foundation and Cna, then provided, again to Martinetti, a tribute to Nicola Mileti, historian and tireless curator of the Castellamonte exhibitions from 1981 to 2001. Finally, the famous ceramic stoves will be placed under the arcades of Palazzo Antonelli.