La Cooperativa Ceramica di Imola has been active since 1874 and the museum was founded in 1979 to enhance its historical memory. The path develops in three sections, dedicated respectively to the evolution of the decorations produced by the company’s Artistic Section, to the ceramists who influenced the types of artistic and industrial production, and finally to the works here created by contemporary artists. In the eponymous Room the serial production of decorations produced by the Artistic Section is preserved. It is possible to observe both the continuity and the evolution of tastes and styles (among other things, the introduction of the blue carnation is noted, suggested by Giò Ponti, which takes up a traditional motif, but with a tone typical of the Cooperativa Ceramica di Imola). In the Authors’ Room a series of panels with marks help the visitor to identify, from a chronological point of view, both the artistic and industrial production of the company. Here the most significant ceramists who worked for the Company are represented with their works. In the Contemporary Artists’ Room, finally, works created from 1981 onwards by great contemporary artists at the Cooperativa Ceramica di Imola are exhibited. Among others, Hsiao Chin, Remo Brindisi, Enrico Baj, Lucio Del Pezzo, Agenore Fabbri, Tullio Pericoli, Gianfranco Pardi, Arnaldo Pomodoro, Aldo Spoldi, Emilio Tadini, Joe Tilson are featured, testifying to a conscious search by “Imola” for a fruitful relationship with the living currents of contemporary art.
Information about the “G. Bucci” Cooperativa Ceramica Museum
Via Vittorio Veneto, 13,
40026 Imola (Bologna)
0542601601
imola@imolaceramica.it
https://www.imolaceramica.it
Source: MIBACT
