Venice, Bertozzi & Casoni's Istantanee on display at Caterina Tognon's

In Venice, on the occasion of the 59th International Art Exhibition of the Biennale, the Caterina Tognon Arte Contemporanea gallery presents, from April 20 to July 30, 2022, a project by the artistic duo Bertozzi & Casoni, the exhibition entitled Istantanee. Istantanee opens simultaneously with Anthropocene, a major solo exhibition by the artists at the Galleria Civica in Trento.

The exhibition presents a series of sculptures in which Bertozzi & Casoni, who have been working together for more than 30 years, demonstrate their skill in working with polychrome ceramics.Formal hyperrealism meets compositionalsurrealism in the executional mastery of the two artists who elevate and ennoble the use of this technique in contemporary art. The use of color, shiny and sharp, is applied as much to elements of nature - animals above all, but also plants, bones, skulls - as it is to scraps and actual waste. Not without a strong irony, these sculptures are a reflection on the way we live and consume, on the passage of time and the rubble we create. Remains of a human passage, “trash” to which Bertozzi & Casoni give new life by distorting our common sense of beauty. The two adorn with a delicate beauty what, in other contexts, we would like to banish from our sight.

Giampaolo Bertozzi (Borgo Tossignano, Bologna, 1957) and Stefano Dal Monte Casoni (Lugo di Romagna, Ravenna, 1961) trained at the State Art Institute for Ceramics in Faenza and the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna. In the 1980s they collaborated with the Cooperativa Ceramica di Imola as researchers in the Centro Sperimentazioni e Ricerche sulla Ceramica and established various relationships with “K (Keramikos). International ceramics magazine.” Beginning in the 1990s they gained critical acclaim and exhibited in major art and design museums and galleries, such as the Milan Triennale, Tate Liverpool, XIV Quadriennale in Rome, Ca’ Pesaro, Sperone Westwater in Lugano and New York, and Robilant+Voena Gallery in London. Solo shows include those at Museum Beelden aan Zee in The Hague, Galleria Cardi in Pietrasanta, Palazzo Te in Mantua, MARCA in Catanzaro, MAMbo, and Museo Morandi in Bologna. In 2009 they participated in the Venice Biennale, Italian Pavilion. In 2017, they opened 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.

Image: Bertozzi & Casoni, February 10 (2020; polychrome ceramic, 37 x 53 x 44 cm)

Venice, Bertozzi & Casoni's Istantanee on display at Caterina Tognon's

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