CIUSSI, Carlo (Udine, 1930 - Udine, 2012)Simmetrico

Carlo Ciussi's first works are neo-realist in character, but in 1960-62 he progressively switched from figuration to abstraction and informal. He held solo exhibitions at the Galleria Il Girasole in Udine from 1958 onwards. His personal exhibitions were later held at Galleria Il Traghetto in Venice, Galleria Comunale di Trieste (1965) and Galleria Stendhal in Milan. He participated in the 1964 Quadriennale in Rome, the XXXII Biennale in Venice, the San Paolo Biennalein Brazil in 1968, the Salon des réalitiés Nouvelles in Paris and many other exhibitions at private galleries and public institutions.

The plate is part of a series of contemporary ceramics whose production was initiated as a result of several artistic events that took place in Deruta between the 1850s and the 1980s.
The first event, the International Deruta Prize, aimed to strengthen the bond between artists and craftsmen, a custom already tried and tested in the CIMA factories in the inter-war years. 
In 1979, the consortium Gruppo Artigiani Maiolica Deruta 2000, chaired by Alviero Moretti, brought important contemporary Italian artists to Deruta before creating prototypes for mass production.

For more information about the artist and the ceramics, please visit the Moretti Foundation website:

https://www.fondazionemoretti.it/artisti/ciussi-carlo/