Antonia Campi –  Fantasia di serie, fantasie di eccellenza
Until January 31, 2010

It happened exactly sixty years ago. In 1949 Antonia Campi won the 8th edition of the Competition of Contemporary Ceramic Art in Faenza. Her fruit bowl was judged “interesting” by the Jury.

Today Antonia Campi is considered one of the most important Italian artists and designers. Throughout her long creative path, she found a source of inspiration in many materials and forms, creating a wide range of objects, some designed for a specific domestic function, some purely art works. Her beloved ceramics, however, have always had a key role in the development of her artistic personality.

Faenza celebrates Campi with a large variety of works, more than 150, that admirably succeed in showing the artist’s great innovative skills and kaleidoscopic interests.
Just like her “fancy items”, a limited series of one-of-a-kind works in the most amazing free forms and colors that represent a landmark in the recent history of ceramics.

The exhibition also features some large panels that have rarely been displayed before, such as the ones she made for a Richard Ginori store and a landscape panel made in 1951 for the 9th Triennale d’Arte in Milan.

There is more than past works, though. Antonia Campi has designed a new pottery shape especially for the event, a sinuous geometric piece manufactured by three pottery factories in Faenza in a limited edition.

More about Antonia Campi

Antonia was born in Sondrio, Piedmont, in 1921. She graduated from Brera Art Academy in Milan in 1947 and found a job in the renowned Società Ceramica Italiana in Laveno. Soon the Artist Director Guido Andlovitz noticed her skills and encouraged her to work with clay. From then on Antonia Campi designed all kind of items: limited series, one-of-a-kind works, functional wares both with clay and porcelain.
In 1962 she was appointed Artistic Director of the company, that was to merge into Richard Ginori and Pozzi-Ginori.

Throughout her long carrier as artist, sculptor and designer she has been experimenting with a large variety of materials. Her works are to be found in many museums all over the world, such as the MoMa in New York, the  Staatliches Museum in Munich, the Museum of Modern Art in Philadelphia, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Montreal Museum of Decorative Art and the Cerro Museum in Laveno, Italy.

She lives and works in Milano.

Museo Internazionale delle Ceramiche in Faenza
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