Bertozzi & Casoni. Timeless and fragile presences

The Bagatti Valsecchi Museum becomes the setting for an unprecedented dialogue between past and present thanks to the artists’ contributions Bertozzi & Casoni. The prestigious halls of the House Museum These Milanese works reveal the brothers’ deep passion for collecting Fausto and Giuseppe Bagatti Valsecchi, who, over time, have succeeded in transforming a refined Neo-Renaissance residence into an extraordinary a treasure trove of beauty and memories, within which every single object seems to defy the passage of time. The artistic world of Bertozzi & Casoni, the undisputed masters of the contemporary ceramics, capable of transforming clay into a sophisticated language that both celebrates and, at the same time, profoundly challenges the very concept of on-call duty.

The artists have turned ceramics into a means of astonishing mimesis and all the time visual short circuit: their iconic sculptures depict everyday objects, still lifes, animals, remains, accumulations and fascinating metamorphosis, rendered with such meticulous realism as to evoke an immediate bewilderment in the viewer. These are modern vanitas, authentic accounts of the’fleeting which is consumed at the very moment it comes into being. The ceramic works constantly oscillate between the the real and the illusory, fitting into spaces such as strange apparitions which blend in and merge with the permanent collections, creating a optical illusion and a thorough reflection on the fragility and on theexcess of contemporary society.