Andrea Salvatori was born in Faenza in 1975. In 1995 he graduated from the the State Institute of Ceramic Art “Gaetano Ballardini” in Faenza, in 2000 he graduated in Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna, in 2009 he won ex-aequo the 56th International Competition of Contemporary Ceramic Art – Faenza Prize. He has held more than twenty solo exhibitions, in Italy and in the United Kingdom, many of which, in the last decade, in prestigious public exhibition venues, such as the Museum of San Domenico in Imola in 2012; the Museum of Lissone in 2013; the Civic Museum of Industrial Art – Davia Bargellini Gallery in Bologna and the Municipal Art Gallery in Faenza in 2016; the Gaetano Filangieri Civic Museum in Naples in 2017; the Palazzo Ducale in Genoa, the Civic Art Gallery Palazzo Gavotti, the Sistine Chapel Apartments of Pius VII in Savona, the MuDA Casa Museo Jorn in Albisola Marina in 2020-2021. He is a still young and widely musealized artist whose work, since initial training, is characterized by the constant and contemporary practice of sculpture and pottery. However, until now, his countless vases, almost always objets trouvés, have not enjoyed careful criticism. For the first time this essay is exclusively dedicated to the interpretation of this fundamental part of Salvatori’s work, which also derives from his collecting obsession (to demonstrate, on the other hand, that the tradition of the so-called ceramic modernariato, in English Mid Century Modern, even the minor one, continues to be a fundamental source for new aesthetic and art-design adventures).
