Fausto Melotti's Ceramic Works at Montrasio Gallery, Milan

Montrasio Gallery in Milan is presenting an exhibition focused on Fausto Melotti's ceramics and terracottas from the late 1940s to early 1960s. The show highlights the freer, playful, and subtly baroque side of the Rovereto-born artist (1901–1986). Works range from decorative pieces to pure sculpture, embodying lightness, irony, and solemnity. Notable pieces include the 'Vasi sole,' a 1959 'piastrella' with paper inserts treated as plastic, the 1955 'Kore' that reinterprets classical form, the well-known 'Cerchi' from 1956, and the 1962 'Teatrino Scheiwiller,' a rough semi-architectural construction that demystifies Metaphysics through material rawness. The exhibition will have a second installment at Galleria De Crescenzo & Viesti in Rome from March 14 to April 21.