FAUSTO MELOTTI
LA CERAMICA
LA CERAMICA
Lucca: Fondazione Centro Studi sull’Arte Licia e Carlo Ludovico Ragghianti, 2023
Published on the occasion of the exhibition Fausto Melotti. La ceramica at the Fondazione Centro Studi sull’Arte Licia e Carlo Ludovico Ragghianti, the catalog, edited by Ilaria Bernardi, provides the first complete chronology of the artist’s exhibitions in which his ceramicworks were exhibited, as well as an in-depth essay on the conceptual value of this production within his entire activity.
The exhibition narrates and explores the production, wrongly considered to be minor, of one of the protagonists of the transformation of 20th-century Italian art: Fausto Melotti (Rovereto, 1901 – Milan, 1986). With this exhibition, the Fondazione Ragghianti wishes not only to pay tribute to the artist’s production in ceramics, but also to outline a new mapping of what Germano Celant called the “Melotti galaxy.”