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Gian Genta – Ou allez-vous, la belle?
Until Sept. 5th, 2011 Sanremo, Italy Forty pieces made in the last five years to represent the true engine of our being: women. Essential, elegantly decorated, charmingly archaic women. Creatively...
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Torino 2011 – Risorgimento and Italian art ceramics
I’ve just come back from a week in Turin. I immensely enjoyed the city. It’s lively, friendly, easy going and there is so much happening. Apparently the city administration decided to step change the...
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Todi – Summer & Wiese – We were there
Sept. 4 – Oct. 30, 2011 Todi, Italy The exhibition featuring the works of Roland Summer and Christina Wiese opened last Sunday and we were there to meet the artists. The Ab Ovo Gallery truly deserves a...
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Giacomo Alessi – 50 Ceramic Sculptures in London
Sept. 28 – Oct. 11, 2001 London, UK Giacomo Alessi’s work celebrates the glorious past of Sicilian ceramics while going for its renewal. A deep understanding of Caltagirone’s millennial tradition of...
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Giuliano Giganti – To Rebuild a Man
October 2-23, 2011 Gubbio, Italy Giuliano Giganti is one of those artists who have a clear perception of the perpetual changes occurring around them and their impact on our fragility. The man he...
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Meeting Italian ceramic artists: Mirna Manni
I met Mirna Manni last year, in Tuscania. I was there for an art exhibition and she was briefly introduced to me as the co-owner of the gallery and a ceramic artist, an information that – of course!...
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Keramina – Italian Pottery Fair
April 6-7, 2012 Cecina Tuscany – Italy A large number of well established Italian ceramicists, live demos of pottery making techniques, an interesting contest “Vote for the best ceramic cactus”, the...
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Franco Meneguzzo – Unique vs series artworks 1951- 1962
Until May 12, 2012 Turin, Italy Twenty ceramic works by a major Italian ceramic artist and a subject that became a very hot in the Sixties and still is: art and design, unique artwork and serial...
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First Biennial of Contemporary Ceramic Art
Until June 24, 2012 Frascati – Italy The exhibition, the first of many to come I’m sure, is hosted in the former stables of Villa Aldobrandini in Frascati. Recently transformed into a museum, the16th...
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Women artists and their work about women
Until March 24, 2013 Tuscania – Italy Last Saturday I went to visit an interesting exhibition in Tuscania. It has been organized by one of my favorite ceramic artists – Mirna Manni – and it’s about...
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The three-legged symbol of Sicily: Trinacria
The Trinacria, also known as Triskelion, is the familiar three-legged symbol of Sicily, Italy’s unique little nugget. If you visit the island you will be sure to see it everywhere and if you wish to...
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Introducing high end Italian knives from Scarperia
In the last few weeks we’ve been working really hard on a new, very exciting project: high end Italian knives. Actually the project is not really “new” as it started in the Summer of 2011, when I drove...
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Berti Cutlery: nothing but the best
It’s high time to introduce Mr Andrea Berti, the man behind the huge success of Berti Cutlery, the Italian company that has been delighting the world with its premium quality knives for more than a...
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About a holiday in Sicily (and Sicilian pottery of course)
Just back from a holiday in Sicily! I spent a few days in Palermo then drove to the South to visit the Valle dei Templi in Agrigento. It was my first time in Palermo and I had a blast. Palermo is so...
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Sharing some lovely pictures about Grottaglie
We have recently added to our website a page about Grottaglie, a charming town in Puglia where industrious potters have been making vessels and more or less functional ceramics for many centuries....
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An old clay pot from Grottaglie
We’ve mentioned that Grottaglie has been popular for many centuries for the quality and variety of its functional pottery. We’ve found a great picture to show you. This is an old “pignata ferrata”, a...
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Deruta pottery from the kiln
We have just visited Eugenio Ricciarelli in his studio in Deruta and he was about to open his kiln after the firing. It was loaded with lovely serving bowls, fruit bowls and other geometric pottery. We...
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Essential kitchen knives
Essential kitchen knives A set of quality kitchen knives is what you need for a good start in serious home cooking. Having made this fundamental point, the next question is: which knives should be...
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Introducing the Italian ceramics by Francesco Fasano
In a city like Grottaglie, where pottery making is one of the main resources, Francesco Fasano’s ceramics stand out for their unusual designs, sophisticated elegance and technical superiority....
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How is sgraffito pottery made?
Sgraffito, in English “to scratch”, is a pottery decorating technique first used in Egypt and the Middle East in the 7th century to have pottery look like precious metals. Around the 10th century it...
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