CLAUDIA CASALI
The International Museum of Ceramics, Faenza, Italy
direzione@micfaenza.org
THE LEGACY ?F ALFONSO LEONI (1941-1980)
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Journal 17/2021 (Museum of Applied Art), pages 33-39
Article category: review article
UDC:
73/76.071.1 ????? ?.
COBISS.SR-ID 53979657
Abstract (original language):
Alfonso Leoni was an Italian artist, a great talent who unfortunately died very early, at age 39. His life was entirely dedicated to his art production and to his teaching at the School of Ceramics in Faenza.
His research was innovative and multidisciplinary for his time: he experienced not just ceramics, but also painting, sculpture, installation, performances, design. He was able to deepen the social issues present in Italy and Europe during the 1960s/1970s in his works. He looked at art as a means of reaching and developing new practices that have been taken as references, especially in the artistic practices of the artists born in the 1970s. I am not wrong when I say that he is the father of all the artists born in the 1970s, because that generation was able to improve his message of creativity, of liberation from the traditional concepts linked to ceramics, evolving in a more artistic way. His great performance at the Faenza Prize in 1976 is still written in the annals of Italian history of ceramics.
The analysis of the documents from his archive, in a long study that took 5 years of work, enabled me to study his personality as a protagonist within the Italian artistic system and the international ceramic system of relationships and competitions. Leoni was not just an Italy-based artist. He had the opportunity to exhibit abroad (Japan many times, Canada, Poland, former USSR, UK) with important achievements well-recognized by the organizers (some of his works belong to important public collections). We may say that his work is more international than ever before. In some way, we can say that he was a pioneer of the ceramic artistic sculpture.
Key words: (original language)
ceramic sculpture, Italian ceramic art, international ceramic competitions, artistic ceramic performances, innovation, design
Summary:
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