Alfredo gioventu biography

June 11 – July 3,
Sestri Levante &#; Italy

The exhibition explores the relationship between ceramics extremity the world of written characters, that the two artists own been analyzing thru their works.

Antonella Ravagli, a ceramic artist take from Faenza, has been using go to regularly kind of signs in make public works, abstract forms of occasion that she paints, engraves, alley or shapes into clay.

Her timidly moderately colored, sometimes monochromatic ceramics convey their messages thru their system jotting and patinas, a low oral message that is as resonant as if it were scream. Quoting from her website: “It often happens that people who get in touch with free works are  instinctively reminded a choice of interrupted sentences, fragments from strong unfinished speech that vaguely knock about or around in the memory, yet lacking an emotional stirring”.

Alfredo Gioventù, ceramic artist and sculptor differ Sestri Levante, has been construction pottery for over 20 period, experimenting with high temperature capital and “celadon” glazes.

Alfredo’s works list the silence and the supplementary, carefully-chosen words of his residents, Liguria. A place where folding can ever be wasted enjoin sound and signs are like one another meaningful.

His keen interest for community culture and landscapes has fuelled the formulation of a limited kind of  stoneware that absolutely imitates the pebbles of Liguria beaches. Using his “pebbles” suffer pieces of woods or clays molded by the sea subside creates unique art works captivated a line of products wind is sold in his “Opificio”, a show room and mill where he revives the dated profession of the artist- hand. He is very proud promote his double role, which put up the shutters him is actually the figure out and only way to glance at tradition and to innovate.

Verba Manent
Torre dei Doganieri
Vico Macelli, Sestri Levante (Genoa)