The sixth edition of the ‘Verona Ceramics Festival’ is coming up with more than fifty Italian and foreign master ceramists who will exhibit their works in the most authentic quarter of Verona, in the squares of San Zeno on 28 and 29 September.
In the city of Verona, there are various artistic ceramic handicrafts. The word ceramics derives from the Greek Keramos, ‘earth to bake’ and represents everything that can be made from clay. After the great success with the public and critics of the first editions, the Festival proposes itself once again as an important cultural moment of valorisation of the city, as well as a tourist and commercial vehicle for ceramic enthusiasts.
Ceramic artefacts modelled and made using different processing techniques, selected according to criteria of aesthetics, professionalism and originality, exclusively produced by the participating ceramists, and intended for furnishing, table and personal use, will be on display for sale. As every year, this edition of the Verona Ceramics Festival is committed to highlighting the social realities that operate in the Verona area as support for the disabled. These associations use ceramics as an occupational therapy tool to promote the autonomy and integration of their guests into the community.
The 2024 edition will also host the retrospective exhibition ‘Lynette Darlington 1950 – 2013 Una ceramista a Verona’ (Lynette Darlington 1950 – 2013 A ceramist in Verona), at the venue of the Museo del Carnevale, in the former Oratory Santa Maria Giustizia Vecchia, Via San Procolo 10, opening during the same festival hours. Lynette Darlington was born in Plattsburgh (New York, USA) in 1950 but lived for a long time in Verona where, at the beginning of the 1980s, she opened her ceramics workshop in the city centre and thus brought a great novelty to the Italian ceramic scene – in fact, it was she who introduced the Veronese to ‘gres’, a particular ceramic process that involves firing at up to 1300°C, also known as ‘a grande fuoco’.
