Artfully Made

The exhibitions of the 9th edition of Artfully Made transform Palazzo Ferrero into a crossroads of creativity, handcrafted design e environmental sustainability. Three exhibitions of international calibre bring together artistic languages that are different but united by a profound reflection on our time and the relationship between art, nature and identity.

Francesco Maria Messina, with Nature becomes designproposes works realised in rare and precious materialssuch as the petrified wood and the recycled plasticwhich go beyond the aesthetic function to become true environmental statements. Its series Glacies, Mineralia, Fossilia, Replastic e De-Architectura tell an art that is also protest, memory and innovation.

Who in the world am I? by Silvia Levensoncurated by Irene Finiguerra, is an intimate and edgy journey into the universe of the feelings and human relations. Through the poetic and ambivalent use of the glassthe artist explores the fragile territories of thechildhood and thelovelaying bare the submerged violence and the identity cracks.

It concludes Art and Ecology: on the edge by Claudy Jongstracurated by Claudia Buccellato. Dutch artist and activist, Jongstra presents large installations in natural woolthe result of a process entirely ecological and artisanalinvolving the vegetable dye, the manual felting and the direct cultivation of dyeing plants. His works, together with the biellese artistic residencyare a hymn to thebalance between man and nature.