Up to 29 September 2013 will host the 53° Ceramics Exhibition which this year is titled "Border Land". The sample, designed and built by Vittorio Amedeo Sacco and organized by the City of Castellamonte, offers a rich and prestigious overview of works of high value and quality at national and international, through twenty different exhibitions, with 1000 ceramics by 100 artists from all over the world.
The exhibitions will have their epicenter in Castellamonte, in different and important historical palaces: Ceramic Museum of Palazzo dei Conti Botton, Castle and Garden of Castellamonte Conti, Casa Gallo e al Theatrum, but some will be set up in Turin, in the Palace of the Piedmont Region, Agliè, within the castle grounds and Levone in Villa Bertot. Each event will have an inauguration: the 30 August in Castellamonte, the 31 August to Agliè in Levone, and finally the 21 September and 11 October in Torino.
The title 2013, "Border Land", It underlies some of the original meanings: contemporary art, here expressed with ceramics, It reflects on the changes in the world. Investigates in neighboring territories: applied art, design, artigianato, then again, tecnologia, architecture, moda. Experimenting possible new lifestyles. The ceramic art does not remain impervious to radical changes in society and culture of this new century. reflects, if contaminated, experiences. But it is mainly the contemporary art installations, boldly ceramic made, confronted with new meanings of existence and to seek appropriate forms to express them. We live in a complex reality, incoherence and contradictions are rife. Objects and sculptures that belong to it, I witness them and bring the defect signs.
Creativeness, talent, design expertise, It is the values that expresses the exhibition, highlighting experience originated by the emergence of strong individuality. With the works on display, ceramics proves that you can, again, express and evoke emotion.
Free admission
Hours
Thursday and Friday 16-19
Saturday Sunday 10-13 and 14,30 -19
during the week the exhibition is open for groups by appointment
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