Bitossi Aldo Londi Un Ceramista Del Novecento a 20th Century Ceramist Book Flavia Montelupo 2014

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This highly collectible book from Bitossi is dedicated
to the artist and master ceramist Aldo Londi
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Title: … Read more This highly collectible book from Bitossi is dedicated
to the artist and master ceramist Aldo Londi
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Title: Aldo Londi - A Twentieth-Century Ceramist
Un Ceramista Del Novecento [italian]
Autors: Marina Vignozzi Paszkowski (Art Historian) with
contributions by Silvia Floria (Archivist)
English & Italian
Softcover, 264 Pages
Year: 2014
Published by © Fondazione Vittoriano Bitossi
Printed by Polistampa, Firenze, Italy

CONTENT:
Index
Introduction of Franco Bertoni
Prologue
I. 1911-1945 Apprenticeship, training and maturity
II. 1946-1976 Professional fulfilment at the Bitossi manufactory
III. 1976-2003 Professional and creative freedom
Documentary appendix
Notes on the texts
The private Archive of Aldo Londi of Silvia Floria
Bibliography

A long period of research and reconstruction by Marina Vignozzi Paszkowski (art historian) and Silvia Floria (archivist), lead to the creation of this biographical text with a very important relief and meaning for the Vittoriano Bitossi Foundation and for the Art Museum Industrial Bitossi. It is essential to tell the full and rich life of a man and artist who was the creative soul of the Bitossi Manufacture and who with his activity favored, as a forerunner, the entry of design into the world of ceramics through the partnership with a young Ettore Sottsass who frequented the factory as if it were a real laboratory for experimenting with shapes and colours.
An eclectic and multifaceted figure that of Aldo Londi, who at the age of just 11 began to wander around the ceramic workshops with great curiosity, thirsty for knowledge and learning about this strong production tradition, but equally eager to innovate, to listen to each other and give expression of your creativity.
Between economic crises and booms, a great war in the middle, a delicate balance is being built around and inside this wholly singular figure who made many journeys in his long life, geographical, intellectual and cultural, translating each of these into ceramic suggestions.
Aldo Londi, a "working man", as he called himself, dedicated an entire life to ceramics, his companion in daily life: in the perception he had of himself he felt first and foremost a craftsman and only later a ceramist: however he left a legacy of hints, ideas, experiments on matter as the most prolific artists do not do.

ALDO LONDI (1911-2003) was the famous art director of Flavia Montelupo aka Bitossi Ceramiche. The master ceramist was the creative director of Bitossi Ceramiche for more than 50 years. He was a tireless teller of feelings/intuitions, devoting his entire life to art: he was a painter, sculptor, and most of all a ceramicist.

Aldo Londi's ceramics designed in the course of his activity are the fruit of assiduous study, he constantly experimented using different materials, colors and techniques. Londi channeled his creative impulses into meticulous stylistic and production research, as in the case of the iconic Rimini Blu series, produced continuously since 1959. From this moment on, the surface texture, represented by different motifs engraved with a stencil, will always have the same graphic characteristics.

Short history: Founded in 1921 by Guido Bitossi, Flavia Montelupo produced traditional Renaissance-style maiolica and terracotta wares up to the Second World War.
From 1946 to 1976, under the artistic direction of Aldo Londi, the factory collaborated with a number of outside artists — including Ettore Sottsass, Remo Buti, Marco Zanini, and Matteo Thun.
Starting in 1976 the factory produced high-quality commercial ceramics for the Rosenthal Studio, under the name 'Ceramiche Flavia'.
In the 1980s Giovanni Masone took over as artistic director, inviting the members of the Memphis Group to collaborate, as well as Piero Fornasetti.

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