December 30, 2007
On Thursday January 31st 2008, the Terre d’Arte Gallery, Via Maria Vittoria 20/A – Turin, will inaugurate an exhibition entitled “Personal Effects”, featuring ceramic pieces by Savona artist Giorgio Laveri.
The exhibition will be accompanied by a catalogue published by Terre d’Arte and compiled by Riccardo Zelatore.
Giorgio Laveri is an eclectic artist, fascinated by the world of images, a relentless experimenter for whom the visual arts have neither barriers nor distinctions. Starting from the early 1970s, Giorgio Laveri has acquired significant artistic experience in cinematographic and theatrical fields, while undertaking pictorial and plastic research aimed at developing relationships between various artistic disciplines.
The work of Giorgio Laveri, in which the accentuation of colour and compositional quality find particular emphasis in ceramic materials, highlights the discrepancy between ruthless consumerism and the passion with which man bonds with objects, between the annihilation of meaning and the emotional need of form and object, between the tendency towards abandon and the need for recovery.
Giorgio Laveri was born in Savona. After completing a vocational training course on television direction, he collaborated with Salvatore Passarella and painted a series of murals on the condition of the Chilean people after the 1972 coup (Milan, Rome, Brescia, Vicenza).
In 1973, he organised his first personal exhibition at the Vultur Gallery in Genoa, and with Nando Anerdi of the “Derby di Milano”, he founded the “Rosacroce” Theatre Group. After a series of collaborations with various cinematographic productions, he shot his first short film, “The Sleeping Beauty”, which was an integral part of a satirical play he had written.
In 1974, he dedicated his professional activities to cinema and theatre.
Meanwhile, he undertook research into artistic expression linked to ceramics and to cinema. At the beginning of the 1980s he mounted numerous personal exhibitions on such a theme with catalogues by Giorgio Dibitonto, Silvia Broggi, Marco Casiraghi and Brasilia Pellegrinelli.
Galleria Terre d'Arte
Via Maria Vittoria 20/A, Torino (Italy)
January 31, 2008 - March 8, 2008
Open Monday to Saturday: 10,30 - 13,15 / 16,15 - 19,30