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The intelligence of ceramics

After a twenty-year journey, the relationship between Alfonso Femia and ceramics finds a cultured and refined synthesis in a book with the explanatory title “L’intelligenza della Ceramica”, published by Marsilio Arte in Italy and Ante Prima - AAM Editions in France. In the texts written by Aldo Colonetti, Jean-Philippe Hugron, Matteo Vercelloni, Maurice Culot and Alfonso Femia, different aspects and visions restore the compositional and aesthetic versatility of a matter that has crossed time, from the most ancient, from the palaces of Babylon to the contemporary. This relation is told through the projects of Alfonso Femia in France and Italy.
Thanks to Luciana Ravanel, Rossella Martignoni, Gigi Pescolderung, Casalgrande Padana
“Matter is the thread that ties the design project to real architecture. It has always been my mantra. Ceramics possess an emotional, plastic, thermodynamic, chromatic, open intelligence… It deserves to be observed, interpreted, loved.” AF