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.

When i began to work in ceramics drawing was all important for me. View fausto melotti s 1 187 artworks on artnet. 266 related example italy skira editore casati tel 312 421 9905 fax 312 421 0840 info casatigallery com www casatigallery com. Fausto melotti ceramics on display in the collector s home.

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. Fausto melotti was born in rovereto trento on the 8th of june 1901. L opera in ceramica fausto melotti. Antonella commellato and marta melotti fausto melotti.

Find an in depth biography exhibitions original artworks for sale the latest news and sold auction prices. Fausto melotti was a seminal italian postwar ceramicist sculptor painter and poet. Sep 17 2019 explore carol s board fausto melotti on pinterest. I enjoyed drawing on the white surface of majolica being smooth and absorbent.

I used to inscribe any surface it offered plates cylinders jugs vases. The work in ceramics 2003 pg. 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.

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. 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. See available sculpture design and works on paper for sale and learn about the artist. Fausto melotti was a mid century italian modernist sculptor and installation artist.