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, especially of ceramics and objects that epitomize the mass culture commonly referred to as kitsch. This inclination has given rise to an almost impossible creative exercise: the artist has set himself the task of creating works based on the most ordinary objects.

By combining ceramics with caps he invents and applies himself, he has created a series of sculptural vases: the “Tuttitappi.” Irony becomes the main tool for overturning the canon, and this binary combination gives rise to potentially infinite forms, capable of offering new interpretations of what we believed to be familiar and now appears foreign, almost unrecognizable. From February 23 to March 18, the ASPESI store in Milan will host an exclusive exhibition dedicated to the “Tuttitappi” series of works.

The works will then be transferred to the Turin store, where they will remain on display from April 16 to June 30.

“INVASATE” BETWEEN GRACE AND VERTIGO


Ladies sumptuously dressed in elegant nineteenth-century gowns carry vases as refined headdresses: an image of grace, sinuous movement, and lightness. This combination creates an intense symbol: perhaps the female figures embody the privilege of being able to escape the gaze of the world, of not observing and yet advancing or dancing with confidence, without fear of falling.

Art exerts its charm and the symbol, once created, can also be reversed. By contrast, the fragility of the bodies and the elegant world emerges, thrown into a dance that is both harmonious and unrestrained. As in a ritual vertigo, the figures suggest that the deepest truths arise from the darkness of absolute introspection.

“Possessed,” in fact, like presences in mystical ecstasy, but reinterpreted in a style of timeless elegance and preciousness.

The “Possessed” works will be exhibited exclusively from February 24 to April 16 at the ASPESI store in Turin.
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