Socle d’Albisola
Corrado Levi, Socle d’Albisola
Corrado Levi, in his multiform work, constantly evokes and refers to images or words of other artists – tributes, dedications, quotations and revaluations dictated by the passion and desire to deconstruct rules and signs with subtlety and irony.
That’s why Corrado Levi, invited for the first time to Albisola in 2003 for the 2nd Biennial of Ceramics in Contemporary Art, designed Le Socle d’Albisola (“The pedestal of Albisola”), a ceramic parallelepiped that (almost entirely) draws on Le Socle du monde (“The pedestal of the world”) by Piero Manzoni, upside-down, because in fact “it is the earth that rests on it and not vice versa”.
Le Socle d’Albisola by Corrado Levi is presented as three tributes in one: to Piero Manzoni, whose history is closely entwined with this land, to the microcosm of Albisola and to its ceramics.
Roberto Costantino
Corrado Levi, Socle d’Albisola. Lungomare Montale, Albisola Superiore
Corrado Levi, Socle d’Albisola. Lungomare Montale, Albisola Superiore
Socle d’Albisola by Corrado Levi was made in Albisola in 2003 during the 2nd Biennial of Ceramics in Contemporary Art.
Enigma
Corrado Levi, Enigma
Corrado Levi, Enigma
Corrado Levi, Enigma
The small work of art consists of three identical parts, in contact with each other, but made with different materials. The first is a cedar board with inlaid decorations and irregular holes alluding to thoughts and desires. The second part is a bronze casting. The third is a white enamelled ceramic mould. They are three works, but also just one.
Separately, they explore the relationship between desire and material, while together they suggest the transformation and permanence of desire. Perhaps a new tension emerges due to the diversity of the material. There is always an enigma between what one feels and what one accomplishes.
Corrado Levi
Corrado Levi, Enigma. “Quali cose siamo”, Triennale Design Museum, Milan, 2010
Corrado Levi, Enigma. “Attese Edizioni Handmade in Albisola”, Collezione Permanente del Design Italiano, La Triennale, Milan Design Week 2007
Enigma by Corrado Levi was prototyped in Albisola (Italy) in 2006 during the 3rd Biennial of Ceramics in Contemporary Art.
Enigma was also presented at the following exhibitions: “Handmade in Albisola”, La Triennale, Milan Design Week 2007; “Quali cose siamo”, Triennale Design Museum, 2010.
Flower
Corrado Levi, Flower
Corrado Levi actually seems to be avoiding the idea of designing a vase, preferring instead to evoke Andy Warhol’s Flowers, which he has transformed into shiny-coloured sculptural structures extravagantly displayed on the walls. The designer returns to the “scene of the crime” - the vase project - to remind us that “it is taken for granted that the vase is hidden by the flower”.
Corrado Levi, Flower. “Cambiare il mondo con un vaso di fiori”, Pierluigi and Natalina Remotti Foundation-City of Camogli, 2010-2011
Corrado Levi, Flower. “Cambiar el mundo con un vaso de flori”, Italian Cultural Institute, Madrid, 2010
Flower by Corrado Levi was prototyped in Albisola (Italy) on occasion of the travelling exhibition “Changing the world with a vase of flowers”, MUDAC-Museum of Design and Contemporary Applied Arts, Lausanne, 2011; Pierluigi and Natalina Remotti Foundation-City of Camogli, 2010-2011; Italian Cultural Institute of Madrid-Italian Embassy in Spain, 2010.
Corrado Levi, The eroticism of clay
