• About us
  • Magazine
  • Submissions
  • Advertise
  • Contact
Thursday, July 10, 2025
No Result
View All Result
Ceramics Now
Subscribe now
  • News
  • Artist profiles
  • Articles
  • Exhibitions
  • Ceramic art
  • Interviews
  • Resources
    • Ceramics Now Weekly
    • 2025 Ceramics Calendar
    • Open call for ceramic artists
    • Ceramics job board
    • Pottery classes
Ceramics Now
  • News
  • Artist profiles
  • Articles
  • Exhibitions
  • Ceramic art
  • Interviews
  • Resources
    • Ceramics Now Weekly
    • 2025 Ceramics Calendar
    • Open call for ceramic artists
    • Ceramics job board
    • Pottery classes
No Result
View All Result
Ceramics Now
Home Archive

DisGRAZIE by Bertozzi & Casoni, FaMa Gallery, Verona

September 20, 2011
in Archive, Exhibitions
DisGRAZIE by Bertozzi & Casoni, FaMa Gallery, Verona

DisGRAZIE exhibition by Bertozzi & Casoni, FaMa Gallery

DisGRAZIE by Bertozzi & Casoni, FaMa Gallery, Verona
1 October – 12 November 2011

Opening: Friday 30 September, hours 18.00-21.00

On 30th September 2011, from 6pm, FaMa Gallery in Verona holds the opening of the exhibition DisGRAZIE (DisGrace), an original exhibition project by Bertozzi & Casoni, who for the very first time will present a collection of new works investigating the relationship between art and nature and the expressive potential of matter in its multiple plastic and aesthetic meanings.

Through an experimental and conceptual reading of ceramic, a practice which has marked the research of the artists since 1980, the exhibition has two main sections:

The first consists of sods of earth containing different kinds of sedimentation, including waste and human and animal remains. These groups – where what we usually desire to remove has been buried -, are the humus prolifero from which sprout amazingly beautiful floral microcosms. The second section includes compressions of discarded waste recovered from the “rubbish dump” of the contemporary consumer society (tins, cans and scrap metal); from these heaps of waste emerge succulent plants, waterproof and robust enough to survive attack from the waste and to give it new vigour.

For the DisGrazie project at the FaMa Gallery, Bertozzi & Casoni “forge” an evocative and surreal setting in order to reveal the contradictions and chaos of postmodern life, addressing the recurring theme of vanitas with a unique, exuberant exhibition. All with the help of ceramic, a material that is fragile yet everlasting, which the artists manipulate in hybrid and polymorphous expressive ways with the strong desire to promote osmosis between art and life and to immortalise the transience of existence.

Notes on the artists:
Bertozzi & Casoni is a general partnership founded in 1980 in Imola. For thirty years artists have devoted themselves exclusively to ceramic as a possibility for painted sculpture, but in the second half of the 1990s a more conceptual aspect emerged in their work which would stimulate, towards the year 2000, a great turning point: Bertozzi & Casoni abandon the use of majolica to favour the use of ceramic materials of industrial origin. In 2004 they are invited to exhibit at the Tate in Liverpool (A Secret History of Clay) and in 2005 at the XIV Quadriennale in Rome. In 2007 they exhibit at Cà Pesaro, International Gallery of Modern Art in Venice, in 2008 at the Sforza Castle in Milan, in 2009 at the Italian Pavilion of the Venice Biennale, in 2010 at AVA All Visual Arts in London (Vanitas. The transience of Earthly Pleasures), at the Sperone Westwater Gallery in New York (Interval), at the Sperone Gallery in Sent and at the Arnaldo Pomodoro Foundation in Milan (Italian sculpture in the 21st century). In 2011 they exhibit at the Musée des Beaux Arts in Ajaccio (Réflection sur la mort) and are once again invited to the Italian Pavilion of the Venice Biennale.

FaMa Gallery
Corso Cavour 25/27, 37121 Verona
Tel. +39 045 8030985
Fax +39 045 8011410
info@famagallery.com
www.famagallery.com

Tags: ArtBertozzi CasoniCeramicCeramic artCeramicsDisGRAZIEExhibitionExhibitionsFaMa GalleryItalian ceramicsNatureNews

Related Posts

Norwegian ceramics
Exhibitions

Energy Transfer. Parallel Narratives in Norwegian Ceramics 1895–2025 at the Center for Ceramic Art Ringebu, Norway

July 10, 2025
John Roloff and Neil Forrest
Exhibitions

A Roadmap to Stardust at the Museum of Craft and Design, San Francisco

July 9, 2025
Satoru Hoshino & Masaomi Yasunaga ceramics
Exhibitions

Satoru Hoshino & Masaomi Yasunaga: Sea of Mud, Wall of Flame at Nonaka-Hill, Kyoto

July 4, 2025
Perrine Boudy ceramics
Exhibitions

Perrine Boudy: Juste avant les hors-d’oeuvres at Sorry We’re Closed, Brussels

June 18, 2025

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *






Latest Artist Profiles

Jane Yang-D'Haene ceramic art
Artists

Jane Yang-D’Haene

June 25, 2025
Kristy Moreno ceramics
Artists

Kristy Moreno

June 23, 2025
Mohamad Soudy ceramics
Artists

Mohamad Soudy

June 16, 2025
Ho Lai ceramics
Artists

Ho Lai

June 2, 2025

Latest Articles

Michelle Im ceramics
Articles

Hello, Goodbye: Michelle Im on Diaspora, Ritual, and the Labor of Care

by Ceramics Now
July 2, 2025
Graciela Olio post ceramics
Articles

Post-Discipline and Post-Ceramics. Questions and reflections from a Latin American perspective

by Ceramics Now
June 26, 2025
Pekka Paikkari ceramics
Articles

Fragments of History. Pekka Paikkari’s exhibition at the Ensérune Oppidum and Archaeological Museum

by Ceramics Now
June 25, 2025
Zizipho Poswa
Articles

Shaping Visibility: Reflecting on Representation in South African Ceramics

by Ceramics Now
June 19, 2025
Instagram Facebook LinkedIn
Ceramics Now

Ceramics Now is a leading independent art publication specialized in contemporary ceramics. Since 2010, we promote and document contemporary ceramic art and empower artists working with ceramics.

Pages

  • About us
  • Magazine
  • Submissions
  • Advertise
  • Contact

Subscribe to Ceramics Now Magazine

Join a vibrant community of over 22,000 readers and gain access to in-depth articles, essays, reviews, exclusive news, and critical reflections on contemporary ceramics.

SUBSCRIBE TODAY

© 2010-2025 Ceramics Now - Inspiring the next generation of ceramic artists.

  • Subscribe to Ceramics Now
  • News
  • Artist profiles
  • Articles
  • Exhibitions
  • Ceramic art
  • Interviews
  • Resources
    • Ceramics Now Weekly
    • Ceramics Calendar 2025
    • Open call for ceramic artists
    • Ceramics job board
    • Pottery classes
  • About us
    • Ceramics Now Magazine
    • Submissions
    • Advertise with Ceramics Now
  • Contact
No Result
View All Result

© 2010-2025 Ceramics Now - Inspiring the next generation of ceramic artists.