The book featuring Bertozzi&Casoni's works from 1997 to 2020 comes out in bookstores on May 28

Coming to bookstores on May 28 is the book Bertozzi&Casoni. Opere, a new catalog documenting the great production from 1997 to 2020 of Bertozzi&Casoni, the great Italian ceramic artistic duo: the volume, published by Umberto Allemandi, is edited by Jolanda Silvestrini and features texts by Eugenio Riccòmini, Franco Bertoni, Marco Senaldi and Antonio Faeti. Readers will discover the works of more than two decades of an artistic operation (1997 2020) that moves, seamlessly and between questions and fertile doubts with respect to the great tradition of art, attentions to modernity and contemporary innovations.

Bertozzi & Casoni (Giampaolo Bertozzi and Stefano Dal Monte Casoni) have been working together since 1980, developing an original vocation for experimentation in sculpture and seeing in ceramics above all a possibility of painted sculpture (read also our recent interview with Giampaolo Bertozzi). Their works, defined by the authors themselves as “contemplations of the present,” have gained international resonance for their unparalleled execution and technical skills, attractive scenographic gifts and a rediscovered sense of wonder and beauty.

The duo was founded in 1980 in Imola: Giampaolo Bertozzi (Borgo Tossignano, Bologna, 1957) and Stefano Dal Monte Casoni (Lugo di Romagna, Ravenna, 1961) trained at the “G. Ballardini” in Faenza and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna. Their first creations are small in size and in thin polychrome majolica. They collaborated from 1985 to 1989 with the Cooperativa Ceramica d’Imola as researchers in the Centro Sperimentazioni e Ricerche sulla Ceramica, producing two challenging tests sponsored by the company: the interventions in Tama New Town (Tokyo, 1989-1990) and the large panel Ditelo con i fiori, placed on an exterior wall of the Ospedale Civile di Imola. Between 1983 and 1994 they approached the world of design through a privileged relationship with the Dilmos space in Milan and participation in various editions of Abitare il Tempo in Verona and the Milan Triennale. In the 1990s a more conceptual and radical aspect emerges in their work. In 2004 they were invited to exhibit at the Tate Liverpool and the XIV Quadriennale in Rome. In 2007 they had a solo exhibition at Ca’ Pesaro, Galleria Internazionale d’Arte Moderna in Venice (where they exhibited three large works in conjunction with the Biennale: Composizione in bianco, Le bugie dell’arte and Composizione Scomposizione), and in 2008 at Castello Sforzesco in Milan and the Museo Internazionale delle Ceramiche in Faenza.

In 2009 their works are exhibited at the Italian Pavilion of the Venice Biennale(Composizione non finito-infinita and Rebus); in 2010 at All Visual Arts in London, Sperone Westwater in New York, Galleria Sperone in Sent and Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro in Milan. In 2011 they exhibited at the Italian Pavilion of the Venice Biennale(Electric Chair with Butterflies), at FaMa Gallery in Verona, and at La Maison Rouge in Paris; in 2012 at Robilant+Voena Gallery in London, at Sperone Westwater in Lugano and New York. Of the same year is the solo show at All Visual Arts in London, where the large work Regeneration is exhibited for the first time. Of 2013 are the solo shows at the museum Beelden aan Zee in The Hague, Beck & Eggeling Gallery in Düsseldorf, and Galleria Cardi in Pietrasanta; of 2014 those at Sperone Westwater in Lugano and in the monumental rooms of Palazzo Te in Mantua. Of 2015 the solo shows at Galleria Tega in Milan, Galleria Poleschi in Lucca, Sperone Westwater in New York, Mambo in Bologna and the participation in Expo Milano 2015. Of 2016 the solo shows in the halls of Palazzo Larderel in Florence (presented by Galleria Il Quadrifoglio in Milan, in collaboration with Gian Enzo Sperone), at the Galleria d’Arte Moderna in Palermo, at Espace Grandjean in Vallauris, at Galleria Verolino in Modena, at Macist in Biella and at Palazzo Ducale in Massa. 2017 opens with solo shows at the Museum of Palazzo Poggi in Bologna and the Pinacoteca Civica in Ascoli Piceno and continues with the collaboration with Ca’ del Bosco. Of 2018 are solo shows at Galleria Anna Marra in Rome and Rossi & Rossi Gallery in Hong Kong; of 2019 those at Marca in Catanzaro and Museo Morandi in Bologna; and of 2020 the solo show in Pietrasanta at the Complesso di Sant’Agostino. December 16, 2017 saw the opening of the Bertozzi & Casoni Museum at the Cavallerizza Ducale in Sassuolo, a permanent space that brings together a selection of the most significant works of their artistic production.

The book featuring Bertozzi&Casoni's works from 1997 to 2020 comes out in bookstores on May 28

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