Piero Ceccaroni's Glazed Ceramics at Villa Colloredo Mels

Piero Ceccaroni (Foligno, 1936–1996), grandson of renowned ceramist Rodolfo Ceccaroni, is the subject of a solo exhibition at Villa Colloredo Mels in Recanati, curated by Stefano Papetti and running until September 4, 2016. Despite a law degree, Ceccaroni turned to maiolica, developing a refined artistic sensibility. The displayed ceramics, spanning 1980 to 1990, feature meticulous form and a singular poetics where nostalgic memories blend with transfigured landscapes on curved and flat surfaces. His glazed painting emphasizes gloss and color, interwoven with thought and narrative. Ceccaroni's preferred registers are aphorisms of memories, glimpses, and details, inscribing the beauty of Marche sunsets, meadows, hills, and mountains into harmonious hymns to creation. His world opens to a fantastic inventory of material and immaterial juxtapositions, architectures, and geometric reticulated constructions. Fine, subtle lines evoke past events and seasons spent in Recanati, reflected in views and moods of rare expressive intensity. Ceccaroni emerges as a modern interpreter of an ancient art, where technique marries emotion.