Fausto Melotti Ceramics

Fausto melotti was a seminal italian postwar ceramicist sculptor painter and poet.

Fausto melotti ceramics.

I used to inscribe any surface it offered plates cylinders jugs vases. Biography working in an array of materials including wood wire plaster and ceramics fausto melotti is known for creating curious surrealist sculptures in which symbolic forms express what has been described as the inner realms of human experience. The work in ceramics 2003 pg. Fausto melotti 1901 1986 was an italian sculptor ceramicist poet and theorist.

See available sculpture design and works on paper for sale and learn about the artist. The ceramics in the giardino di melotti collection offered at auction on 27 november in milan were brought together by a collector who thanks to the stimulating and fervent atmosphere of milan in the 1960s grew up surrounded by design by albini castiglioni and joe colombo among others. Sep 17 2019 explore carol s board fausto melotti on pinterest. Fausto melotti ceramics on display in the collector s home.

He turned his attention to ceramics after the war and. See more ideas about ceramics vase ceramic sculpture. Fausto discovered ceramics in the late 80 s attending courses at the state institute of art of ceramics in faenza. Antonella commellato and marta melotti fausto melotti.

Fausto melotti was a mid century italian modernist sculptor and installation artist. L opera in ceramica fausto melotti. I enjoyed drawing on the white surface of majolica being smooth and absorbent. On view through 18 june fausto melotti features drawings ceramics and sculptures from the early 1930s through the mid 1980s including the artist s plaster bas reliefs fantastical terracotta teatrini little theaters and signature lithe brass sculptures.

In 1918 he enrolled in the faculty of physics and mathematics at the university of pisa a course of studies that he continued at the politecnico in milan where he graduated in electrotechnical engineering in 1924. Find an in depth biography exhibitions original artworks for sale the latest news and sold auction prices. When i began to work in ceramics drawing was all important for me. Fausto melotti was born in rovereto trento on the 8th of june 1901.