Faenza's Carlo Zauli Museum starts fundraiser to repair flood damage

In Emilia Romagna, theflood caused considerable damage to the Carlo Zauli Museum in Faenza; damage to the collection of works, to the rooms dedicated to exhibition space, to part of the facilities, to the garden, to the halls, and to all the spaces used for events and workshops that represent the heart of the programming that animates the museum venue. For this reason, the museum has launched a fundraiser on the GoFundMe platform to repair the flood damage. You can donate a free amount at this link.

“I founded, together with my sisters, a museum in Faenza in 2002 dedicated to our father Carlo, a world-renowned ceramic sculptor who passed away that same year,” says Matteo Zauli, director of the Carlo Zauli Museum. “Since then this place has never ceased to be a lively hub for our city and a reference point in Italy for contemporary ceramics. The flood of May 18 devastated cellars, ground floor, and garden, all spaces used for exhibitions, events, and workshops. Numerous works from our collection were destroyed, and facilities and structures were damaged. Major specialized restoration work will be essential.”

In the heart of Faenza’s historic center, the Carlo Zauli Museum explores and disseminates contemporary art in all its languages, with a special focus on ceramics, a material of local tradition. It is housed in the premises that were since 1949 the home of Carlo Zauli, among the most representative sculptors of the 20th century, whose work and history the museum promotes.

The museum is a journey touching places the artist had not frequented and others dear and familiar to him, which has as its base and his workshop, now very much alive with museum activities. Through the language of his works, sometimes confronted with artists of his time, sometimes with young people who never met him, the Carlo Zauli Museum carries on the main project for which it was created: to keep alive the memory of a deceased artist, to bring him to the attention of young people, to bring him together with artists of the new generations who can draw inspiration and lessons from him.

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Faenza's Carlo Zauli Museum starts fundraiser to repair flood damage

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