We are happy to announce that the MIC International Museum of Ceramics in Faenza has been selected among the 37 projects selected under the public notice PAC2022-2023 – Plan for Contemporary Art, promoted by the Directorate General for Contemporary Creativity of the Ministry of Culture for project proposals for the acquisition, production and enhancement of works of contemporary art and creativity destined for the Italian public heritage. The selected projects were announced last September 27, 2023. Thus, MIC Faenza will be able to take advantage of the acquisition of two new works made in ceramics, “Italia” (2022) by Alberto Gianfreda and “Maternidad” (2014) by Vilma Villaverde.
Alberto Gianfreda, Italy, 2022Alberto
Gianfreda was born in Desio (MB) in 1981. In 2003 he graduated in sculpture from the Brera Academy of Fine Arts, where he specialized in 2005 in Arts and Anthropology of the Sacred, to complete his training at TAM under the direction of Nunzio Di Stefano. Since 2005 he has been collaborating with the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan at which he currently teaches Techniques for Sculpture. Gianfreda devotes study and research to the language of sculpture, investigating the connections between the themes of resilience and identity. It looks for in the adaptability of matter, through assembly systems, unrepeatable formal variations that make the sculpture unique at a specific moment. The same adaptability of the form is repeated on a broader scale that declines and tests the very language of sculpture with different physical and thematic contexts ranging from public space to the art system, from the space of the sacred to that of business. In recent years, he has devoted special attention to identifying tools that enable disciplinary dialogues. The two recent publications Sculpture Architecture, Cross Methodologies for the Territory and Open Source, Mobilizations, Multiplications, Insertions investigate issues of dialogue between disciplines for the use of sculpture in urban planning processes, proposing a novel reflection on the public function of art.
Vilma Villaverde, Maternidad, 2014Vilma
Villaverde was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on February 23, 1942. In 1961 he graduated from the Institute of Fine Arts “Prilidiano Pueyrredón” and obtained the title of lecturer in art education from the National University of Misiones, (Misiones, Argentina) in 2004. He studied with Mireya Baglietto, Ramón Castejón and Leo Tavella. He has received numerous national awards, including the Acquisition Grand Prize at the National Ceramic Show in 1993 and the Aquisition Grand Prize at the National Visual Arts Hall for Sculpture in 2003. Author of the books “Leo Tavella – Artistic Laborer” published in 2011, and “Ceramic Art in Argentina – A 20th Century Overview” published in 2014 – Buenos Aires – Argentina. He has participated in International Exhibitions in Icheon-Korea, Mino-Japan, Taiwan, Poland, Germany, Faenza-Italy, Zagreb-Yugoslavia, Vallauris and Paris-France, Brazil, Venezuela, Greece, Foshan-China, Egypt and New Zealand. He has conducted art residencies, such as the Shangyu Celadon Modern International Ceramic Art Center in 2017, the new Taipei Yingge Ceramics Museum Taiwan in 2017, and the Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park, Japan, in 2017 and 2018. He is currently a member of the Council of the International Academy of Ceramics as the Latin American Representative.
The project is supported by the PAC2022-2023 – Plan for Contemporary Art., promoted by the General Directorate for Contemporary Creativity of the Ministry of Culture.
