{"id":2547,"date":"2011-08-10T07:14:43","date_gmt":"2011-08-10T05:14:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thatsarte.com\/blog\/?p=2547"},"modified":"2011-08-10T07:14:43","modified_gmt":"2011-08-10T05:14:43","slug":"gian-genta-ou-allez-vous-la-belle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thatsarte.com\/blog\/highlights\/gian-genta-ou-allez-vous-la-belle\/","title":{"rendered":"Gian Genta &#8211; Ou allez-vous, la belle?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Until Sept. 5th, 2011<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>Sanremo, Italy<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Italian Ceramics - &quot;Arcana&quot; by Gian Genta (2008) - Photo credits: www.giangenta.it\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thatsarte.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/GianGenta2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2554\" style=\"margin: 6px 8px;\" title=\"Italian Ceramics - &quot;Arcana&quot; by Gian Genta (2008) - Photo credits: www.giangenta.it\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thatsarte.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/GianGenta2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thatsarte.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/GianGenta2.jpg 386w, https:\/\/www.thatsarte.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/GianGenta2-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/><\/a>Forty pieces made in the last five years to represent the true engine of our being: women. Essential, elegantly decorated, charmingly archaic women.<\/p>\n<p>Creatively exuberant, expressionist, primitive and, more than everything else, deeply truthful,<br \/>\nGian Genta is a self made artist who has always, stubbornly, refused academic principles, managing to be faithful only to his own inspiration.<\/p>\n<p>During the Sixties and the Seventies he was part of the prominent group of Italian artists who met in Albisola. Particularly attracted by the works of Sassu, Fabbri e Fontana, he made friends also with Lam, Jorn, Rossello, Salino, Siri, Sabatelli, Bonelli.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><a title=\"Italian Ceramics - &quot;Come le foglie&quot; (Like leaves) by Gian Genta (2007) - Photo credits: www.giangenta.it\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thatsarte.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/GianGenta1.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2553\" style=\"margin: 6px 8px;\" title=\"Italian Ceramics - &quot;Come le foglie&quot; (Like leaves) by Gian Genta (2007) - Photo credits: www.giangenta.it\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thatsarte.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/GianGenta1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thatsarte.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/GianGenta1.jpg 557w, https:\/\/www.thatsarte.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/GianGenta1-300x241.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 557px) 100vw, 557px\" \/><\/a> His managerial career and his strong political passions absorbed all his energy in the following decades, until, at the dawn of the new millennium he decided to leave politics behind and go for a new start. Quoting from his website: \u201cIn the years after 2000 I retrieved the soul of a restless artist who has found in his mature years many things that he still needs to say\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>A crucial experience for his ceramic art was his experimenting with third <a title=\"Italian Ceramics - Artist Gian Genta at Paolo Anselmo studio in Albisola - Photo credits: www.giangenta.it\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thatsarte.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/GianGenta3.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2555\" style=\"margin: 6px 8px;\" title=\"Italian Ceramics - Artist Gian Genta at Paolo Anselmo studio in Albisola - Photo credits: www.giangenta.it\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thatsarte.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/GianGenta3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thatsarte.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/GianGenta3.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.thatsarte.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/GianGenta3-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a>firing in Turi D\u2019Albisola\u2019s studio, where he made heads, busts, statuettes which represent his distinctive point of view on today\u2019s human condition.<\/p>\n<p>As a modern knight-errant he has been working in many of his fellow artists\u2019 studios, his latest hosts being Sandro Soravia and Paolo Anselmo in Albisola.<\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Gian Genta &#8211; O\u00f9 allez-vous, la belle?<br \/>\n<\/strong>Nyala Suite Hotel<br \/>\nvia Solaro 134, Sanremo<br \/>\nPh: +39 0184 667 668<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Until Sept. 5th, 2011 Sanremo, Italy Forty pieces made in the last five years to represent the true engine of our being: women. 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