AMELIE MAISON D'ART
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REPOSSI
opening July 5 , 18:00 - 21:00
The Repossi house is celebrating ten years of its Antifer collection. To celebrate this anniversary, the Place Vendôme jeweler entrusted galley owner Amélie du Chalard with an exceptional artistic curation. Guido De Zan, Florence Grundeler, Victoire d'Harcourt, François Kenesi, Michel Kirsch and
Marine Vu are the six artists invited to produce 5 original works that resonate with the collection. One work by each artist will be selected for Repossi's personal collection while all the other works will be exhibited at the gallery Amelie Maison d'art, from July 5 2023.
GUIDO DE ZAN
1-30 luglio 2023
dalle 13:00 alle 18:00
Fugacittà.
Umberto Dattola - Guido De Zan - Kouzo Takeuchi
28 March - 5 May 2023
ESH Gallery
via Vincenzo Forcella 7, Milan
opening 28 March, from 10:00 to 21:00
from 29 March to 6 April: 11:00 -19:00
From 11 April to 5 May on appointment unless otherwise scheduled.
The exhibition will remain open to the public with several evening and weekend opening during Milan Art Week and Fuorisalone week.
ESH Galley is pleased to present Fugacittà, an exhibition dedicated to the works of artists Umberto Dattola, Guido De Zan and Kouzo Takeuchi.
For the first time in the history of human civilization, more than half of the world's population lives in urban areas. Cities allow the exchange of ideas, generate innovation and development, but at the same time they are the source of numerous social problems and reveal the deep contrasts that coexist in a fragile balance.
The issue force us to reflect.Do we like where we live? Do we appreciate our surroundings? Are there too many of us? What do we breath? Is it sustainable?
But above all, do we live well in the city? The answer are partly entrusted to the works of te three artists, some of them created for the exhibition, with which they tell their personal vision of the city. The title of the exhibition reveals the common thread linking the three artists. On the one hand escape, understood as a form os escapism between dream and literature in Dattola's gold-leaf cabinet/sculpture or iconic-imaginary in De Zan's ceramic groups; on the other hand, fugacity expressed by Takeuchi's Modern Remains, which reveal the inexorably ephemeral condition f man's work.
Guido De Zan.
Bianco e nero, disegno e scultura.
11 - 26 February 2023
AMELIE MAISON D'ART
presents
CONVERSATIONS
Juliette Lemontey & Guido De Zan
19 - 29 October 2022
monochrome
28 May - 16 June 2022
3613 Magino, Midori Ward, Sagamihara,
Kanagawa 252-0186,
Giappone
Fittile
Artigianato artistico italiano nella ceramica contemporanea.
4 September 2021 - 31 October 2021
Triennale Milano
viale Alemagna, 6
curated by Ugo La Pietra
under the patronage of
Comune di Milano, Milano design week, AiCC
The works presented in this exhibition are an incomplete representative survey of artists and artisans who manifest their creative capacities through a skill in the working of the material and a sure personal language of expression. Technique and poetics are the two values that together give meaning to the exhibition; choices made by people who consciously refuse to
recognize their works as part of the system of art or design. Conceptuality and spectacularity are the two parameters that we often find present in identical proportions in the objects on display. Objects that hark back to the principal archetype of everyday use, but one that also has a strong symbolic significance: the vase.
Mirabilia
A Wunderkammer of Milanese Arts and Crafts
20 October 2020 - 10 January 2021
Triennale Milano
viale Alemagna, 6
curated by Alberto Cavalli
general director of the Cologni Foundation for the Métiers d'Art
under the patronage of
Regione Lombardia, Comune di Milano, fondazione Cariplo
This is the first project in the Mestieri d'Arte e Design: Crafts Culture series, which has emerged from a partnership with the Fondazione Cologni dei Mestieri d'Arte.
An exhibition devoted to the excellence of Milanese arts and crafts, creating a fascinating dialogue between pieces by contemporary masters and some significant works from Renaissance.
DANS LE DÉTAIL
EBERHARD ROSS
JEAN-PHILIPPE LAGOUARDE
GUIDO DE ZAN
Dal 25 settembre al 10 ottobre 2020
GUIDO DE ZAN
Figure e Paesaggi Urbani
8 - 14 April 2019
10:30 - 19:30
Cocktail: 9 April h. 18:00
Natsuko Toyofuku
Atelier
Corso Como 9 - Milano
The exhibition held at Natsuko Toyofuku atelier, Figures and Urban Landscapes, includes works in stoneware, porcelain and graphics.
“I read - De Zan writes - that Braque argued that every artist has the human figure as the end of his work. In much of my work the figure is the protagonist, in the vases, in the sculptures, and in the graphics.
Alternatively, they are the landscapes, especially urban ones, such as single houses, agglomerates that form villages and cities. I remember the first drawings of children representing the people closest to them and their homes.
These figures and houses accompany us throughout our lives and always remain part of our expression.
My vases often have anthropomorphic shapes, a front and a back, curved lines to remember the female figure and more angular shapes to depict the masculine one.
Instead, my small sculptures, often little scenes, contain characters with more realistic but still stylized forms. Others are lonely figures, silhouettes that reproduce the characteristics of the protagonists in my little scenes.
Often these characters live as a couple, family or community in order to meet others and tell each other.
Galleria Fatto ad Arte
presenta la mostra
Guido De Zan
"Figure in equilibrio"
Ceramiche e carte
8 March - 29 March 2019
Opening 7 March from 18.30
via Moscova 60 - Milano
La Galleria Fatto ad Arte , proseguendo il suo racconto nei territori dell’Arts and Crafts italiana, e dei suoi protagonisti è lieta di presentare l’opera di Guido De Zan, artista milanese che ha fatto del materiale ceramico il centro di una lunga e profonda ricerca concettuale e formale.
De Zan è nato a Milano nel 1947.L’anno scorso ha festeggiato i quarant’anni di vita del suo laboratorio “Il coccio”. Per questa occasione ha pubblicato un volume monografico “Guido De Zan, un’idea di leggerezza” edito da Corraini edizioni.
Cenni biografici
Nel 1974, dopo aver lavorato 8 anni nel campo della assistenza a ragazzi con disabilità mentale , si laurea in Sociologia alla Università di Trento. Nel 1975 inizia una ricerca nel campo ceramico , utilizzando nei primi anni la maiolica per la produzione di oggetti d’uso. Passa successivamente alla tecnica raku e si orienta verso oggetti più simbolici come tazze per la cerimonia del tè, vasi e pannelli decorativi. Da metà degli anni ’90 inizia a utilizzare grès e porcellana per realizzare i suoi lavori e ha affiancato alla produzione ceramica lavori di grafica usando diverse tecniche e materiali.
La mostra che si tiene alla Galleria Fatto ad Arte, ha come titolo “Figure in equilibrio” e comprende lavori in grès, porcellana e grafiche.
Ho letto – Scrive De Zan -che Braque sosteneva che ogni artista ha come fine del suo lavoro la figura umana. In buona parte del mio lavoro la figura fa da protagonista, nei vasi, nelle sculture, e nella grafica.
In alternativa sono i paesaggi, soprattutto urbani, quindi singole case, agglomerati che formano villaggi e città.
Mi vengono in mente i primi disegni dei bambini che rappresentano le persone a loro più vicine e le loro case.
Queste figure e queste case ci accompagnano per tutta la vita e rimangono sempre parte della nostra espressione.
I miei vasi spesso hanno forme antropomorfe, quindi un fronte e un retro, linee curve a ricordare la figura femminile e forme più spigolose a raffigurare quella maschile.
Invece le mie piccole sculture, spesso dei teatrini, contengono dei personaggi di forme più realistiche ma sempre stilizzate.
Altre sono figure sole, delle silhouette che riprendono le caratteristiche dei personaggi dei teatrini.
Spesso questi personaggi vivono in coppia, famiglia o comunità per poter incontrare gli altri e raccontarsi.
Presentation of the book
"Guido De Zan
an idea of lightness
ceramics 1978 - 2018"
edited by Anty Pansera e Eugenio Alberti Schatz
27 February 2019
18:00
Chiostro Nina Vinchi del Piccolo Teatro di Milano,
Via Rovello 2, Milano
With Alberto Cavalli, director of the Fondazione Cologni dei Mestieri d'Arte and Flaminio Gualdoni, art critic.
Guido De Zan and the editors of the book will attend the meeting.
"Only in the workshop of craftsmen and the studios of artists, inhabited by visionary creators and traders of beauty, does material seems to take on the true forms of its destiny": with these words Francesco Cataluccio introduces the volume dedicated to the forty years of activity of the Milanese ceramist Guido De Zan. From the title - an idea of lightness - the peculiarity of de Zan's work on ceramics emerges, that is, his intention to "lighten" the material and to seek a balance, however unstable. The book, edited by Eugenio Alberti Schatz and Anty Pansera, guides the reader on a discovery of the evolution of De Zan's work, through different subjects, techiniques and materials.
From the new opening texts - by Francesco Cataluccio, Anty Pansera, Eugenio Alberti Schatz and Guido De Zan - we move on a rich catalogue of works, divided into categories. The book closes with a section that includes a critical anthology, some writings that emphasise the fundamental themes od De Zan's research, from the relationship between art and manual labour to the relationship with the city of Milan, and a project note, with contributions from Paola Lenarduzzi (book design), Licia Cicala (documentation of works) and Regina Recht (photo story).
PIASA
auction
"Guido De Zan,
Scultura Ceramica de la collection de l'artiste"
12 April 2018
from 18:00 to 21:30
118 Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré
75008 Paris
EXHIBITION
GUIDO DE ZAN
from 30 March 2016 to 3 April 2016
IDÈE SHOP
2-16-29 Jiyugaoka
Meguro-ku
Tokyo
LA SCULTURA CERAMICA CONTEMPORANEA IN ITALIA
curated by Mariastella Margozzi and Nino Caruso
11 March - 7 June 2015
opening 11 March 2015
h 18:00
Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea
Viale delle Belle Arti, 131
Roma
The exhibition, curated by nino Caruso and Mariastella Margozzi, wants to present for the first time in the National Gallery the path of Italian ceramic sculpture from the fifties to the present, taking into consideration over sixty artists of different generations who have dedicated themselves to their activity exclusively to the medium of ceramic. In fact, as the natural development of the art of decorating elements and objects of everyday life, the ceramists-artists have linked their custom with the technique to ever new experiments, technical and formal, which have led this particular genre to compete in all respects with the most traditional sculpture, that one in stone, marble or bronze.
Creativity is, in the ceramic sculpture sector, first of all associated with the peculiarity of the materials and their firings and then with iconographic and stylistic ideas that distinguish each artist in a very clear manner. The panorama of ceramic sculpture is very vast in Italy and in the rest of the world and includes artists of great standing. The first generation of contemporary ceramic sculptors was formed in Italy at the school of the great Leoncillo Leonardi and also assimilated the teachings of Arturo Martini, Lucio Fontana, Fausto Melotti. From these artists, who historically have given prestige to a genre previously considered minor, ceramics has been elevated to an autonomous sculptural language and this is the legacy that has been transmitted to the next two generations, including the younger one, capable of fully integrating this particular language in the complex and varied panorama of contemporary art.
The technical and aesthetic innovations that all artists have brought to the ceramic sculpture genre are of great importance and bear witness to the vitality of an ancient tradition.The artists selected for the exhibition, each one present with three works representative of his activity as a sculptor-ceramist, are:
Attilio Antibo, Nedda Guidi, Carlos Carlè, Nanni Valentini, Pompeo Pianezzola, FEderico Bonaldi, Alfonso Leoni, Carlo Zauli, Salvatore Cipolla, Pino Castagna, Salvatore Meli, Alessio Tasca, Nino CAruso, Panos Tsolakos, CAndido Fior, Lee Babel, Adriano Leverone, Enrico Stropparo, Riccardo Monachesi, Riccardo BIavati, Tristano de Robilant, Giancarlo Sciannella, Massimo Luccioli, Claudio Cipolletti, Elettra Cipriani, Bertozzi & Casoni, Aldo Rontini, Emidio Galassi, Luigi Gismondo, Goffredo Gaeta, Ivo Sassi, Guido Mariani, Alberto Mingotti, Alfredo Gioventù, Eraldo Chiucchiù, Giuseppe Lucietti, Giorgio Crisafi, Antonio Grieco, Paolo Porelli, Aldo Rontini, Jasmine Pignatelli, Annalisa Guerri, Marino Ficola, Guido De Zan, Tonina Cecchetti, Fabrizio Dusi, Silvia Calcagno, Rita Miranda, Luciano Laghi, Fausto Cheng, Marta Pacon Rodriguez, Antonella Cimatti, Mirco De Nicolò, Fiorenza Pacino, Nicola Boccini, GRaziano Pompili, Gabriella Sacchi, Cristiana Vignatelli Bruni, Luigi Belli, Simone Negri, Luigi Pero, Denis Imberti e Stefano Tasca.
FAI presents
"Arte ceramica oggi in Italia"
an exhibition curated by Jean Blanchaert
from 30 November 2013 to 6 Genuary 2014
from Wednesday to Sunday
h 10:00 -18:00
Villa Necchi Campiglio
Via Mozart, 14
Milano
OFFICINE SAFFI
"OPEN TO ART"
new gallery opening
5 May 2011
h 18:00
via Saffi, 7
Milano
De Zan works in the new space Officine Saffi
In the occasion of the opening of the new gallery Officine Saffi, entirely dedicated to ceramics, Guido De Zan is one of the seven international artists invited to show his works at the exhibition "Open to Art".
The artist presents sculptures and big natural grès vases. Philippe Daverio, Salvatore Carruba and Paolo Magnani introduce the event.
The exhibition is on until 31 July 2011.
Guido De Zan
exhibition
"Skyscraper in one's pocket.
Vases and sculptures by Guido De Zan"
26 November 2010
h 18:00
laboratorio Il Coccio
alle colonne di San Lorenzo
via Pio IV, 3
Milano
Small room but a lot of warmth at the workshop Il Coccio during the opening of the exhibition dedicated to a year of work on the subject of Pirelli skyscraper. In a booklet by De Zan published by Pulcinoelefante, Bianca Tosi acutely described it as "a lightly high skyscraper".
On exhibition a selection of over 100 vases, small grès, porcelain and paper sculptures, drawings and photos. It's a very good occasion to face with the esthetical uo-to-dateness by Gio Ponti and with the imprintin given by his building on the spirit of this city.
50th Year Edition
1st July 2010
The skyscraper designed by Gio Ponti, one of the iconic buildings of 20th century in Milan, is now fifty years old. Guido De Azn marked the occasion by producing a limited edition of Three Travelling Pirelli Towers, recreating the basic shape of the building in three variants. The work is a tribute to Ponti, but also to Bruno Munari and his travelling sculptures made out of paper. The edition is made up of 200 numbered copies signed by the artist which come to complete with the essay by De Zan, Ferruzzi and Alberti Schatz. The publisher is Giorgio Lucini. For more informations or to purchase an item, please drop by at No.3, Via Pio IV, Milan, or contact by e-mail at info@guidodezan.it
GUIDO DE ZAN
The book for the first 30 years
"sculptures 1995 - 2008"
1st November 2008
Published to celebrate the first three decades of activity of Guido De Zan's Il Coccio workshop, Sculptures 1995-2008 features an essay by Flaminio Gualdoni. The book can be bought on line from Damiani Editore, or, better still, why not make a personal call to il Coccio, in Via Pio Iv,3, Milano, close by the portico outside the church of San Lorenzo. You may get to meet the artist, and you will certainly see some of his works, in a very special place in Milan where the ceramic art have put down firm roots.
