Giuseppe Rossicone Biography
Giuseppe Rossicone is a ceramist from Abruzzo by birth and Milanese by choice and artistic training. He revives the ancient tradition of ceramics with a new spirit and translates it into avant-garde terms, thus connecting his name to the international history of artistic ceramics.
After completing his primary studies, Rossicone decided to attend Ceramic Art courses at the San Bernardino school in L'Aquila. Here, his talent is noticed by the sculptor Fulvio Nardis, who supports him and invites him to join him in Milan in order to complete his education in the lively Milanese artistic environment.
At the end of the 1950s, Rossicone founded his Studio-Laboratory, equipped with its own kiln, which over the years would become a point of reference for many artists wishing to approach the artistic expression of ceramics. Today, his Studio, unique in the city of Milan, has also been transformed into a precious museum and continues to collect the best of the most recent history of contemporary art.
In his Studio, the most important names of Italian and international art have followed one another, giving life to a vast collection of works of art, unique pieces, decorated plates, amphorae and sculptures, testifying to a whole world of art finds in in which the images and colors of the artists who collaborated in their creation emerge. In these dishes we can recognize the totems of Ibrahim Kodra, the Venetians and the pastorals of Remo Brindisi, the nudes of Domenico Cantatore, the landscapes and seascapes of Michele Cascella, the Somalis of Salvatore Fiume, the expressionist laborers of Giuseppe Migneco, the pastoral world of Purificato's Ciociaria, the precious faces of Marisa Settembrini, together with informal quotes, the pop nature of Schifano, the doves of Floriano Bodini, the ironic world of Franz Borghese and many others.
In recent years, Giuseppe Rossicone has collaborated in particular with Arnaldo Pomodoro, Sandro Chia, Agostino Bonalumi, Lucio Del Pezzo and the Swiss architect Mario Botta, creating plates, ovals, heads, sculptures and large spheres together with the masters of twentieth century art. In addition to these, many other names worked alongside Rossicone, such as Gentilini, Annigoni, Veronesi, Artias, Mastroianni, Longaretti, Cappelli, Fontana, Walter Lazzaro, Dova, Crippa and many others. Rossicone provided valuable advice to all of them and gave them the opportunity to express their art through ceramics.
