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In its third edition, Open to Art, the International Ceramic Art and Design Award Competition, promoted and organized by Officine Saffi of Milan, aims to enhance and promote the use of ceramics in contemporary art and design. Registration will close on 21 September 2018. Ceramic must be the principal material for the realization of the works, but experimentations including other materials, provided they are used to a limited extent, will also be accepted. The works will be evaluated by an international jury according to certain basic requirements: technique, originality, design research for the art section, while for the design section, originality, functionality and reproducibility will be taken into account. Finalists’ works will be exhibited in a show to be held in March 2019, while the winning works, in addition to receiving money prizes, will become part of the Officine Saffi collection. Find the Conditions and Instructions for participation and download the application form at: www.officinesaffi.com
On May 27, 1923, the Salsomaggiore spa complex, designed by Ugo Giusti and decorated by Galileo Chini, whose 150th birth anniversary falls on this day, was inaugurated. It is a grandiose work that reconciles memories of art nouveau, with suggestions of the Viennese secession, with motifs already in Deco taste and oriental enchantments. The exhibition […]
27/05/2023 - 17/09/2023
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In the evocative space of the former Church of Santo Stefano al Ponte, now the Cathedral of the Image, theater of Arte Immersiva, the volume Gioielli a Firenze-Jewels in Florence was presented. Fratelli Peruzzi Archive 1880-1970, edited by Bianca Cappello, published by Livorno-based Sillabe Publishing House. Patient cataloging has returned drawings, plans, notes, photos, and […]
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The Venetian Glass Archive, established in 2012, which is based on the Island of San Giorgio Maggiore, was recently moved to the recently restored 16th-century Sala Messina, located in the Cypress Cloister next to the exhibition aera “Le Stanze del vetro,” which has been the scene of important exhibitions for years. The Glass Study Center […]
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From May 13 to July 9, 2023, MIDeC International Museum of Ceramic Design, in collaboration with Triennale Milano, presents “The SCI, Italian Ceramic Society at the 1st Biennial Exhibition of International Decorative Arts in Monza, May 1923.” A celebration of an anniversary: at the prestigious venue in Laveno Mombello, in the province of Varese, the […]
13/05/2023 - 09/07/2023
