A
close-up look at one of the murals created using tiles and grouts from the new
Casamood collection by Casa Dolce Casa.
Casa Dolce Casa’s revolutionary new line Casamood is turning heads around the world. The series, which combines Italian porcelain tiles with other types of materials including paint, grout and glass, was an overwhelming hit at Cersaie and made an artistic statement at another leading show this season, Art Basel Miami Beach. Art Basel is a new type of cultural event, combining an international art show with an exciting program of special exhibitions, parties and crossover events including music, film, architecture and design.
As a special exhibition during the show, Casamood partnered with Iberia tile to present “High Definition,” a work by Italian artist Luca Pancrazzi. Throughout his career, Pancrazzi has used expressive media that range from painting and photography to video, light-boxes, sculpture and large installation pieces. For this exhibit, he used tiles from Casamood to recreate photographs. Similar to the giant display that was on view at the Casamood concept store during Cersaie, Pancrazzi used a 2”x 2” format with grouts that exactly matched each color tile to create a tile mosaic based on one of his pieces. On the other side of the room, he blew up the image to give it a pixilated appearance. In order to capture this look, he used slightly larger 4” x 4” tiles.
Luca
Pancrazzi used different size tiles with matching grouts from Casamood to
create two brilliant works of art that adorned the walls of the
exhibit.
Enzo
Mularoni, President of the Faetano Group and general executive manager of
Ceramica del Conca stands at the entrance to the new Cino Mularoni Foundation
(CMF).
Ceramica Faetano Inaugurates New Foundation Headquarters
Ceramica Faetano, one of Italy’s leading ceramic tile manufacturers, announced the inauguration of a new headquarters for its philanthropic arm – the Cino Mularoni Foundation (CMF). It will be located in the Palazzini Uffici – created in 1962 for Ceramic Faetano. On display in the new offices will be a selection of ceramic objects that the CMF has acquired over time – with a particular focus on the winners of local design competitions that celebrate ceramic artistry.Ceramica Faetano has been dedicated to providing financial and human resources to social and philanthropic purposes for some time. The CMF, founded in 1992, in memory of the company’s founder from San Marino, is charged with the mission of spreading awareness of the local ceramic tradition. This tradition has been a vital part of the local economic and cultural life in the Republic of San Marino for most of the last century.
In honor of the opening of the new office, the foundation has announced that it will organize an exhibit, in collaboration with the State Museum of the Republic of San Marino, and with the assistance of the State Secretariat for Education and Culture and the University Social Affairs Department. The exhibit, entitled Ceramic Bottles of San Marino, will be on display next December in downtown San Marino and will be an extensive look at the artistic and decorative of these collected objects of art.
To
honor the local community’s rich ceramic artistry, the new CMF offices have a
permanent display of ceramic objects for all to enjoy.
In addition, Del Conca has recently been specified for prestigious projects like the Russian Finance Ministry in Moscow as well as the Russian Central Bank in Saint Petersburg and a prominent new luxury residential community in Budapest.
It all adds up to another high-profile year for the active leader in the Italian ceramic tile industry.
