ANDREA SALVATORI X ASPESI

ASPESI has always had deep ties to the art world. Since its early years, the brand has combined stylistic research with constant dialogue with artists, photographers and creatives, interpreting its collections as a space for cultural as well as aesthetic experimentation.

This context gave rise to the collaboration with artist Andrea Salvatori, whose ironic and contemporary language fits naturally into the brand's identity. His works will be displayed in ASPESI's shop windows in Milan and Turin, transforming them into a meeting place between art and design, where everyday objects are reinvented through new forms and meanings.

The artistic intervention is not only an exhibition element, but part of a visual narrative that reflects the brand's approach: essential, curious and always open to cross-pollination between disciplines.

ANDREA SALVATORI


After graduating with a Master of Arts degree from the Ballardini Institute of Ceramics in Faenza, he attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna. A ceramist appreciated for the quality and irony of his extremely elegant sculptures, he won the Faenza Prize in 2009 and has had numerous exhibitions in prestigious national and international contexts.

Always interested in the manipulation of images, Salvatori has developed an autonomous language in the creation of ceramic sculptures with a high conceptual, ironic, and often irreverent charge.

He creates his works by modifying existing objects (works of art or fine craftsmanship, but also common industrial objects), grafting them into complex or modular forms of his own invention, often in relation to historical environments and distinctive architecture.

“TUTTITAPPI”: THE IRONY OF FORM


Salvatori is an artist, but also a tireless and unconventional collector, particularly of ceramics and objects that embody the mass culture commonly referred to as kitsch. This inclination has given rise to an almost impossible creative challenge: the artist has set himself the task of creating art starting precisely from the most ordinary objects.

By combining ceramics to which he invents and applies caps, he creates a series of sculptural vases: the “Tuttitappi.” Irony becomes the primary tool for subverting convention, and from this binary combination arise potentially infinite forms, capable of offering new interpretations of what we believed to be familiar and now appears foreign, almost unrecognizable.

From April 16 to June 30, the ASPESI store in Turin will host an exclusive exhibition dedicated to the “Tuttitappi” series.

“IKEBANA”: A DIALOGUE BETWEEN MAN AND MACHINE


Today, with robotics and artificial intelligence becoming increasingly prevalent, art too finds itself engaging with technology. Salvatori transforms this challenge into an opportunity, creating “Ikebana Rock’n’Roll”: sculptures in which human labor and that of a mechanical arm come together and test each other, as in a sort of performance.

While the machine shapes the clay, the artist intervenes by inserting spheres of various sizes. This creates a dynamic balance between technological precision and artisanal craftsmanship, which can sometimes even lead to unpredictable results, such as small collapses or unexpected variations.

For ASPESI, a new series of “Ikebana” takes shape: essential, asymmetrical compositions that, upon closer inspection, may evoke ever-changing faces or expressions, leaving room for personal interpretation. These are sculptures born of silence and emptiness, fundamental elements from which the entire composition comes to life.

The works will be on display at the ASPESI store in Milan, located at Via San Pietro all’Orto 24, from April 17—during Design Week—through June 29.
For more information and requests: info@salvatoriandrea.it