{"id":85820,"date":"2018-11-29T14:23:27","date_gmt":"2018-11-29T13:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/egidimadeinitaly.com\/ecomsite\/pratical-quotes-fornasetti\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T13:16:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T12:16:18","slug":"pratical-quotes-fornasetti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/egidimadeinitaly.com\/en\/pratical-quotes-fornasetti\/","title":{"rendered":"Pratical Quotes Fornasetti at Palazzo Altemps"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hello, everyone!<\/p>\n

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Piero Fornasetti Guest at Palazzo Altemps<\/i><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Today, we’ll talk about an exhibition that just ended in Rome.<\/p>\n

The exhibition, “Practical Quotes: Fornasetti in Palazzo Altemps,<\/b>” showed 800 pieces designed by Piero Fornasetti, one of the most brilliant Italian designers of the 20th century.<\/p>\n

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The Dream World of Piero Fornasetti<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

His talent was, to put it mildly, eclectic and inspired him to a truly limitless production of furniture, design objects, paintings, and more.<\/b><\/p>\n

We could say that his overflowing creativity led him to design all that is designable: umbrella stands, lamps, mirrors, bookends, chandeliers, wallpapers, armchairs, trays, dishes… and the list goes on!<\/p>\n

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Tables by Piero Fornasetti
Camei Model<\/i><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

You would think with such an impressively large production, there would be some failures, some false starts. But not so.<\/p>\n

Fornasetti’s genius never weakened, never flagged<\/b>, from the fantastic furniture he made with Gio Ponti and his collaborations with artists like De Chirico, Lucio Fontana, Aligi Sassu, and Massimo Campigli, all the way to a simple ashtray.<\/p>\n

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The Beautiful Trays of Fornasetti<\/i><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

His world was one of suns and moons, human faces and animals, tarots and knights, coats of arms, cameos, libraries, aquariums and Greek statues, and it never ceased to amaze.<\/p>\n

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In Rome the Genius of Piero Fornasetti<\/i><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In this world, we can’t but get lost, at once dreamlike and absolutely lucid, made of Jerusalems, mountebanks, houses of cards, and architecture.<\/p>\n

His style, always easy to recognize among the crowd<\/b>, takes you into fascinating, unknown worlds.<\/p>\n

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Architectures Table
Icon of Italian Design<\/i><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This is what happens to us when we go this wonderful exhibition, put on in one of the world’s most enchanting places, Palazzo Altemps, which holds within many works of world cultural heritage (with one exception I’ll explain later…).<\/p>\n

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Piero Fornasetti
Italian Design at Palazzo Altemps<\/i><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

There’s an important point to note here:<\/b> here we have at last a successful pairing of ancient and modern\/contemporary art.<\/p>\n

There’s a perfect fusion between the masterpieces of Greek and Roman art and the eclecticism of Fornasetti, who always had some classicism in his blood.<\/p>\n

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The Hands
by Piero Fornasetti<\/i><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We all know the sorry fashion of putting contemporary art in the past’s prestigious places, like churches, whether deconsecrated or not, museums, and palaces.<\/p>\n

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The Visionary World of Piero Fornasetti<\/i><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

They are desperately trying to find a dimension for pieces of art that are apparently not enough in themselves.<\/b><\/p>\n

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The Classical World of Fornasetti<\/i><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The most grating aspect is the commentary and reviews that go with such exhibitions. I can only dream, one day, to read even one such review that doesn’t use the word “dialogue.”<\/p>\n

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Fornasetti and the Roman Classical Antiquities<\/i><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The only dialogue that I imagine is the one between the curators, the artists, the gallery owners, and the sponsors.<\/p>\n

No, wait, actually, I can imagine another dialogue, the one that starts at sundown, like in the movie, “A Night at the Museum.”<\/p>\n

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I imagine what the masterpieces of the past would say to the new arrivals…<\/p>\n

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P.S.:<\/p>\n

Earlier I mentioned a little exception in Palazzo Altemps’ extraordinary collection.<\/p>\n

Well, on display here is the spectacular Ludovisi Throne, its marble shining; but I am so faithful to Federico Zeri, the critic who maintained it is a fake, I keep on looking at and reconsidering those prominent breasts, those crossed legs.<\/p>\n

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“Practical Quotes: Fornasetti at Palazzo Altemps”<\/h4>\n

Piazza di S. Apollinare, 46<\/h4>\n

\u00a000186 Rome<\/h4>\n

from 12.16.2017 to 9.9.2018<\/h4>\n

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