According to Amy Kulper, the exhibition at Palazzo Reale offers insight into the key concepts of the birth of modernity: industrialisation, new materials and women’s autonomy.
Art Deco was already waning in the early Thirties. This was the time when applied decorative arts made way for industrial design. The language of objects abandons decoration to become synthetic, intuitive, immediate. The extraordinary series of red earthenware vases concluding the exhibition ‘Art Déco. Il trionfo della modernità’ at Palazzo Reale bears witness to this.
The blend of art and technique is a leitmotiv of Art Deco, and here is demonstrated by the magnificent vase by Dagobert Peche, decorated with a spray gun and on display at the exhibition ‘Art Déco. Il trionfo della modernità’ at Palazzo Reale in Milan.
On 15th April, we have celebrated National Made in Italy Day, recalling the Exposition internationale des arts décoratifs et industriels modernes, which opened in Paris exactly one century ago, in 1925.
How many types of ceramics are there? When did ceramics and industry first come together?
Valerio Terraroli, curator of the exhibition “Art Déco. Il trionfo della modernità”, and Domitilla Dardi, design critic, tell us all about it in their first “Art Deco walk”.
