1st prize at 58th International Competition of Contemporary Ceramic Art – under 40
MIC-Museo Internazionale delle Ceramiche di Faenza
Faenza/IT
2013

i nuovi apostoli ovvero paesaggi economico-strutturali, 2010/2011 | glazed earthenware, slim/4 by Florim, shaped passepartout, wood, black paint | cm 810 x 390 x 194

i nuovi apostoli ovvero paesaggi economico-strutturali, 2010/2011 | glazed earthenware, slim/4 by Florim, shaped passepartout, wood, black paint | cm 810 x 390 x 194

i nuovi apostoli ovvero paesaggi economico-strutturali, 2010/2011 | glazed earthenware, slim/4 by Florim, shaped passepartout, wood, black paint | cm 810 x 390 x 194

i nuovi apostoli ovvero paesaggi economico-strutturali, 2010/2011 | glazed earthenware, slim/4 by Florim, shaped passepartout, wood, black paint | cm 810 x 390 x 194

Jury’s motivation

The work is fully contemporary in the shape and poetic. The artist’s skillfulness to combine different material, together with his aptitude to face nowadays social subjects, offer several and new possibilities to understand the work. It is characterized by the cohabitation of different languages and artistic experiences, underlying the maturity of the artist.

La materia incosciente dei segni
Nero/Alessandro Neretti

This installation consists of some elements that provide a contemporary reading of socioeconomics. It is a series of 12 works that have to be hung on the wall and they have been realized by cutting the passepartout in order to show the ceramic material at the back and so creating a black on black effect. Thanks to a simple but effective iconographic research, this series highlights some symbols/representations of those economic apostles, namely the dogmas that, in my opinion, rule the existing global systems. The sculptures outline a landscape with no identity, in a mix of decadence and splendor between shape and architecture.
Nature, as well as man, is helpless in the face of those rules imposed by the system, where signs say the Word and spread the Creed.