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VALTER SCELSI (/AUTHORS/2144748010-VALTER-SCELSI), BAUKUH (/AUTHORS/888905702-BAUKUH)FAUSTO MELOTTI
From July 9th 2015, to January 17th, 2016
Nouveau Musée National de Monaco, Villa Paloma, Monaco
an exhibition curated by Eva Fabbris and Cristiano Raimondi
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The Nouveau Musée National de Monaco presents Fausto Melotti, an exhibition dedicated to one of Italy'sgreatest artists of the interwar and postwar periods. It brings together about 20 metallic sculptures and morethan 70 ceramic pieces.
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Graduating initially in electrotechnic engineering in 1924, Melotti continued his studies at the Brera Academyfrom 1928 until 1929 under the distinguished sculptor Adolfo Wildt, together with his future friend LucioFontana.
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The research gathered by the curators began by the observation of the nodal nature in the relationship betweenMelotti and the magazine Domus, founded in 1928 by Gio Ponti. Accordingly the exhibition includes primarilyworks whose photographs were published in Domus between 1948 and 1968, alongside articles about theartist, as well as those written by Melotti himself.
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Together with Domus, Ugo Mulas—displayed throughout an array of his photographs of Melotti's work—plays acrucial part in the exhibition, best delineated by the critic and publisher Vanni Schweiwiller, who, writing on therelationship between Mulas and Melotti observed that: "Melotti became attached to Ugo Mulas, who was hisphotographer […] And the passion and excellence of a great photographer like Ugo Mulas contributedsignificantly to the rediscovery, albeit late, of a great sculptor like Melotti.
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The catalogue of the exhibition will be published in the fall of 2015 by the Nouveau Musée National de Monaco.The book will be bilingual, French ang English, and illustrated by a large selection of archval documents, someof which never seen before. It will include an essay by Valérie Da Costa focasing on Fausto Melotti’s ceramics,a text by Eva Fabbris dedicated to the presence of articles about and by Fausto Melotti in Domus as of 1948, atext by Cristiano Raimondi about the collaboration between Gio Ponti and Fausto Melotti for Villa Planchart inCaracas, a conversation between Simone Menegoi, Melina and Valentina Mulas, a conversation betwennBarbara Casavecchia, Allesandro Pessoli and Paul Sietsema as well as a conversation between FrancescoGarutti, Valters Scelsi and the members of the architecture studio baukuh.
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