ricAMARE
by Pino Deodato
for Marca Corona
Pino
Deodato
Pino Deodato was born in Nao, Calabria in 1950, moving to Milan in 1969 where he attended the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera and where he still lives and works today. His research took shape in the 1970s, at a time when art was closely linked with political and social affairs, and he developed a very personal style that straddled both painting and sculpture.
Humanist and alchemist of imagery, Deodato constructs a poetic universe populated by figures and symbols that inhabit fantastical worlds and ask profound questions about the meaning of existence. Wonderment and rigour, delicacy and allegory coexist in his works, always with close attention to detail and formal balance.
The ricAMARE project
The ricAMARE project
For the fourth edition of Marca Corona per l’Arte, Pino Deodato created ricAMARE. Il ricamo è un gesto d’amore , a site-specific work that combines tradition, innovation and identity. The artist has reinterpreted the slow and meditative action of embroidery – eternal synonym of care and dedication – in the language of terracotta. The result is a large contemporary embroiderery made up of nine bas-reliefs in white glazed terracotta enriched with gold leaf, flanked by two sculptures that evoke the intimacy of the artist’s studio.
The work is inspired by the historical motifs of Marca Corona and becomes a visual narrative in which the past is interwoven with the present, transforming an ancient practice into a metaphor for continuity, memory and collective rebirth.
ricAMARE è un’opera d’arte che attraversato lo stadio di esperienza condivisa con i dipendenti dell’azienda, coinvolti in un workshop insieme all’artista. L’opera non si limita a decorare uno spazio, ma diventa simbolo del patrimonio umano e produttivo che dialoga con la storia di un territorio unico: il distretto ceramico di Sassuolo.
Marca Corona underlines its aptitude for weaving together different languages, bringing the material culture of ceramics into contact with the poetic vision of contemporary art. Embroidery is an act of love and therefore becomes the emblem of a company that preserves values, traditions and collective identities – regenerated by its encounter with art.
Exhibition Curator
Beatrice Audrito
Beatrice Audrito (Vercelli, 1990) is a curator, consultant and art critic. After completing her undergraduate degree in Communication in the Art Markets from IULM University in Milan, she graduated with an Economics and Management of Arts Master’s degree from Ca’ Foscari University in Venice with honours. During her training, she collaborated with institutions such as Palazzo Reale, Palazzo Cavalli-Franchetti and the Guggenheim Collection, acquiring extensive experience in curatorship and cultural design.
She specialises in public art exhibitions and projects, focusing in particular on contemporary sculpture in Italy and abroad. In parallel, she organises conferences and workshops for companies and institutions, as well as editing art publications and catalogues.
