Chinese ceramics, for the most part monochrome, created over a period of five centuries, during the Song and the Yuan dynasties, and representing the highest degree of formal and technological refinement of Oriental ceramics, are currently being presented at the MAO in Turin. The extraordinary smelting process generates objects that have become icons of an […]

HOMI, the Lifestyle Trade Fair, set to take place from 25 to 28 January at Fiera Milano, is an occasion to discover the most interesting proposals from the lifestyle and personal accessory sectors. The HOMI exhibition dedicated to personal style will propose all the latest developments and trends and in the bijoux and fashion accessory […]

On 14 December 2018, the third biennial at Vicenza’s Museo del Gioiello jewelry museum was inaugurated with an entirely new selection. The third edition can be visited until the end of 2020: 310 unique and exclusive exhibits, 9 curators and 9 rooms, each of which presents a different meaning of jewelry, in a kaleidoscope of […]

On display, 24 ceramic works produced in Vietri sul Mare during the “German period” of the 1920s and 1930s by Gunther Stüdemann, Richard Dölker, Leo Anzengruber, Elsie Dölker and Guido Gambone. In the period between the two World Wars, many artists from northern Europe stopped in that town on the coast of the Campania region […]

On display in the House Museum belonging to Rodolfo Siviero are four precious sheets of glass painted in tempera on the reverse, dating to the mid-sixteenth century. They can be traced back to Venetian painting, with Levantine and transalpine influences, thanks to the circulation of engravings and drawings. The four pieces, purchased by Siviero in […]

The exhibition is dedicated to the historical Angeli art print shop, opened in Lucca in 1948, and which began its business with a lithographic press for printing labels. In the 1960s, it worked with artists using the technique of drawing on stone. Art became accessible to a wider but also more attentive and demanding public. […]

  In Turin, in the Sala Chiablese of the Musei Reali (Royal Museums), this exhibition brings together a selection of about 100 works including projects, posters, videos, paintings and photographs and design objects created by Armando Testa between 1940 and 1990. It is a structured program that follows the evolution of art and design in […]

Established in 1980, the exhibition has always strived to foster the revival of the art of the traditional ceramic nativity scene, and to contribute to developing contemporary forms and techniques. This year the theme is “Forme d’Amore (Forms of Love)” which, as stated by the Councilor for Culture Elisabetta Dubla, “offers a stimulus so that […]

Until January 7, 2019, submissions for the first “Albisola: ceramica nel verde” competition are open. The competition is open to both Italian and foreign ceramic artists, provided they are presented by an artisan workshop or ceramic industry, which will view the participant’s model of membership. Each competitor may present only one work, made up of […]

With a dozen sections, “Printing Revolution, 1450-1500” features the evolution of printing in Europe over fifty years, with the presence of millions of books, not only for the elite, but for “everyone”, and a vast number for schools. During the event there will be workshops for adults and children and a typographic press from the […]

The workshops of artisans and antique galleries, young people, families and children involved in visits and workshops of know-how and much more. From 1 to 24 December in via Maggio in Florence a new edition of Contemporaneamente is back, a project conceived and curated by the Via Maggio Association to rediscover the historic street of […]

Craftsmanship is deeply rooted in Florence. Its history is so inextricably intertwined with that of the city in which it was born that it can be described as an ancient soul embracing contemporary genius.  In this second edition of Firenze su misura, sixty master artisans describe, through six different fields of work – home décor, […]

The exhibition (Manlio Rho: the Sense of Color. Between textiles and art) has the precise aim of revealing an almost unedited aspect of the Italian abstract artist: his relationship with color and textile design. The exhibition, in fact, explores the practices of Manlio Rho in the field of textiles as a designer and color expert. […]

At the Rosa Grand Milano – Starhotels Collezione, Starhotels is currently hosting a refined exhibition of works by several Milanese Maestri d’Arte, becoming an exceptional stage for Italian high craftsmanship. The event is part of the “The Great Beauty” project, carried out in partnership with the Fondazione Cologni dei Mestieri d’Arte of Milan, Gruppo Editoriale […]

The exhibition is realized with the finalist pieces of the “Ridefinire il gioiello” (Redefining the Jewel) competition, this year at its seventh edition. The aim of the entire event is to spread and enhance a new aesthetics of contemporary jewelry through the search for innovative and experimental materials, involved in a creative process in which the […]

Confirming the inseparable bond between Richard Ginori and Maestro Gio Ponti, artistic director of the Manifattura from 1923 to 1933, the manufactory has chosen to support the project “Tutto Ponti, Gio Ponti archi-designer,” the exhibition-tribute hosted at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs of Paris. The exhibition traces the long career of Gio Ponti, from 1921 […]

The synergy between Confartigianato Imprese Grosseto and the digital communication agency Betaformula has given rise to a web page dedicated to the artisans of Grosseto: “Maremma crea.” It intends to unite in a single identity the artistic craftsmanship of the Maremma, closely tied to its territory but little-known, for its diffusion and appreciation. A tailoring […]

The “Altare Vetro Design” exhibition at the Fornace Alba Docilia in Albissola Marina presents the works of artists, designers and architects who participated in the previous seven editions held at the Museo dell’Arte Vetraria Altarese (MAV) promoted by the Istituto per lo Studio del Vetro e dell’Arte Vetraria (ISVAV) in Altare. Its objective was to […]

Manifesta 12 is the Nomadic Biennial of contemporary art and culture, on view in various locations in Palermo, Italian Capital of Culture 2018, where 50 artists exhibit their works. The Sicilian capital comes alive with exhibitions, installations, videos and performances, urban interventions and projects linked to the event’s theme, “The Planetary Garden. Cultivating Coexistence”. Three […]

Until 6 January 2019, at the Fondazione Giorgio Cini on the island of San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice, you can visit the exhibition dedicated to Carlo Scarpa and the M.V.M. Cappellin Glassworks. The splendid exhibition traces the history of the glassworks founded by Giacomo Cappellin in 1925, highlighting its importance in Murano between the 1920s […]