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Live auction
Auction Postmodern Ceramics Collection PrimeDiCopertina
thu 24 September 2026
Auction dedicated to museums, public institutions, municipal administrations, foundations, and collectors.
The collection, consisting of over 135 works, represents a unique whole and provides a comprehensive account of the evolution of the ceramic landscape from the post-war period to the present day—a time marked by a renewed artistic vision and fruitful collaborations between architects, sculptors, and designers. It constitutes a true mapping of ceramic art and design by 93 renowned artists, already featured in museum contexts.
“For a long time considered a secondary discipline within the visual arts, Italian ceramics has undergone, since the 1950s, a profound and surprising evolution that has radically redefined its cultural status. One of the most emblematic transformations is represented by the dissolution of the traditional dichotomy between art and craftsmanship, replaced by an integrated vision in which the languages of manual skill engage in dialogue with those of aesthetic experimentation.
This collection thus presents itself as a journey through the metamorphosis of Italian ceramics: from utilitarian object to art form, from artisanal product to collectible and museum-worthy expression. The works on display recount a path of experimentation and hybridization, in which different materials—from ceramics to stoneware, from glass to metal—intertwine with cross-disciplinary artistic visions and functions freed from the constraints of utility.
Matter thus opens itself to sculpture, installation, and action. Surfaces no longer decorate, but question; forms no longer serve, but evoke. It is a fluid and dynamic art, in which the value of the artifact is measured by its ability to innovate artistic language, to stimulate critical vision, and to activate emotion and thought.
Within this horizon stand key figures, protagonists of a silent revolution that has restored ceramics to a central role in contemporary artistic debate. Their works, now sought after also in the collectors’ market, are not merely art objects, but manifestos of a modern sensibility that has made ceramics a vehicle for plural languages, capable of speaking to an increasingly attentive and aware audience.” Giacomo La Rosa
The collection, consisting of over 135 works, represents a unique whole and provides a comprehensive account of the evolution of the ceramic landscape from the post-war period to the present day—a time marked by a renewed artistic vision and fruitful collaborations between architects, sculptors, and designers. It constitutes a true mapping of ceramic art and design by 93 renowned artists, already featured in museum contexts.
“For a long time considered a secondary discipline within the visual arts, Italian ceramics has undergone, since the 1950s, a profound and surprising evolution that has radically redefined its cultural status. One of the most emblematic transformations is represented by the dissolution of the traditional dichotomy between art and craftsmanship, replaced by an integrated vision in which the languages of manual skill engage in dialogue with those of aesthetic experimentation.
This collection thus presents itself as a journey through the metamorphosis of Italian ceramics: from utilitarian object to art form, from artisanal product to collectible and museum-worthy expression. The works on display recount a path of experimentation and hybridization, in which different materials—from ceramics to stoneware, from glass to metal—intertwine with cross-disciplinary artistic visions and functions freed from the constraints of utility.
Matter thus opens itself to sculpture, installation, and action. Surfaces no longer decorate, but question; forms no longer serve, but evoke. It is a fluid and dynamic art, in which the value of the artifact is measured by its ability to innovate artistic language, to stimulate critical vision, and to activate emotion and thought.
Within this horizon stand key figures, protagonists of a silent revolution that has restored ceramics to a central role in contemporary artistic debate. Their works, now sought after also in the collectors’ market, are not merely art objects, but manifestos of a modern sensibility that has made ceramics a vehicle for plural languages, capable of speaking to an increasingly attentive and aware audience.” Giacomo La Rosa