Launching for the ninth consecutive year is the “Mestieri d’arte e Bellezza italiana” lecture at the Milan Polytechnic, offered among the design faculty’s elective courses and sponsored by the Fondazione Italia Patria della Bellezza. The lectures, taught by Alberto Cavalli, director general of the Fondazione Cologni dei Mestieri d’Arte, present beauty as a true genetic […]

On Tuesday, September 20, during the XXII edition of the CHI È CHI AWARDS – FASHION COMMUNITY AWARDS, Alberto Cavalli, general manager of Fondazione Cologni and executive director of Michelangelo Foundation for Creativity and Craftsmanship, received at Palazzo Marino the social award as curator of the Homo Faber 2022 event that, in an international setting, […]

The title of the exhibition just opened in Venice on the Island of San Giorgio, for the initiatives promoted by le Stanze del Vetro, highlights the close link between Venetian glassmaking and light: reflected, projected, diffused by lumiere and panels of various shapes and sizes. Symbolic icons of the exhibition are the imposing veil, from […]

It was presented last September 15 at the Museo Civico Archeologico in Milan on the occasion of The Italian Glass Weeks running until September 28, 2022. Gioielli di Vetro dalla Preistoria al III Millennio (Glass Jewelry from Prehistory to the Third Millennium) edited by Bianca Cappello and Augusto Panini is not only an elegant volume […]

Setsuko, an internationally renowned Japanese painter, presents her exhibition Into the Trees II at the Gagosian gallery in Rome. The artist, who has lived in Rome for a long time and currently combines the tranquility of the mountain landscape in Switzerland with the liveliness of the Paris atelier in Astier de Villatte, where she creates […]

We have important plans for the coming year: to increase the number of young artisans to be trained, to strengthen scientific research and publishing activities, and to organize events that will allow art masters to have greater and greater visibility. Establish European-level partnerships to better and better promote Italian art crafts. Now you can help […]

The now historic event in Florence Artigianato&Palazzo, the market-exhibition of artisan excellence in Italy, is back, now in its XXVIII edition. The exhibition, now produced by the Giardino Corsini Association of which Sabina Corsini is president, while sinking its assumptions in the furrow of the oldest craft tradition, wants to highlight the contemporary nature of […]

The Fondazione Cologni’s internship training project is renewed, opening the new call for applications, and is presented with a completely new logo and image, reflecting the values and true essence of the project. The logo and coordinated image were created thanks to the valuable contribution of Gruppo Montenegro through the special “Human Spirit” award promoted […]

It may seem unusual to juxtapose opera with glass. In reality, the power of song and the breath of master glassmakers give rise to works with subtle affinities: the intensity of musical notes is combined with the plasticity or delicacy of glass. This is the theme of the Glass and Opera exhibition set up at […]

A concrete cistern, rising 30 meters in height. It was built in the 1950s and represents the banner-like symbol distinguishing the Sesto Fiorentino area with the indication of the Richard-Ginori manufacture in white porcelain letters. The sphere no longer has the function of a water cistern for processing, but becomes a symbol of local production […]

Six fashionable gowns of the Urbino court in the 15th century are presented in a room of the Appartamento degli Ospiti in the Ducal Palace, in the exhibition Quando vedranno i rich vistimenti. Two sumptuous gowns are inspired by those worn by Federico and Battista Sfoza in the diptych painted by Piero della Francesca preserved […]

Registration is now open for the 25th Ceramics Festival – Portoni Aperti 2022 scheduled for September 9, 10 and 11 in Nove (Vicenza) with the presence of Ceramists from all over Europe, numerous events and activities that will enliven the town squares. The registration deadline is Friday, July 15, 2022. For all entrants to the […]

As a tradition, the Bugatti – Segantini is confirmed as the cultural event that opens the summer in Nova Milanese. The event was organized by the Free Academy of Painting “Vittorio Viviani,” with the patronage and contribution of the City of Nova Milanese and the support of the Rossi Foundation. This year it reaches its […]

With an impressive 2094 votes obtained on the contest website during the online voting phase, Doriana Usai, a ceramist from Assemini (Cagliari), is the winner of the 5th Edition of the “Artigiano del Cuore” contest, promoted by the Cologni Foundation and the Well-made.it platform. She will thus be able to receive the prize up for […]

The 37th edition of Effetto Venezia (Aug. 3-7) is set in Livorno’s La Venezia neighborhood. The striking architectural complex of the Magazzini del Palazzo del Monte di Pietà houses the 6th edition of “Artigianato a Effetto,” which hosts 14 artisans, mainly from the Livorno area, active in various fields such as props, wigs, leather masks, […]

In Lecce, a group of 18 women who are neophytes and interested in learning the traditional artistic technique of “bow” on a loom, in the weaving workshop located in the Ex Conservatorio Sant’Anna in Piazzetta delle Giravolte, has started a course coordinated by three young expert designers and weavers to rediscover and deepen the ancient […]

After seven years of great diagnostic and technical effort, the Opificio delle Pietre Dure of Florence has completed the restoration of a large tapestry (m 4×5) from the collection of Jean-Baptiste and Louis Carrand (inv. 2196 C.), now on view in the Armory Room of the Bargello Museum. The work is part of an even […]

Nine excellent projects that with creativity and courage look beyond the crisis: this is the most important result achieved by the “Master Craftsman Award,” in its second edition. Promoted by the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Biella in collaboration with the Associazione Fatti ad Arte and with the support of Gal Montagne Biellesi, the Award […]

The Alessandro and Alma Fiorentino Foundation sponsored a national study day on Friday, July 15, 2022, at the Museobottega della Tarsialignea in Sorrento, focusing on the art of marquetry in Italy in the 2000s. During this important event, issues that have long affected the wood inlay sector, from the artistic training of future inlayers to […]

The year 2022 sees the Carlo Zauli Museum engaged in an intense program of events, exhibitions, workshops and activities to celebrate an important anniversary: the twentieth anniversary of the museum, which was founded in Faenza a few months after the death of the renowned ceramist. The Carlo Zauli Museum is now internationally considered a nerve […]