Ceramics with a "bang" at Tecnargilla

The evolution of the world of ceramics will be on display at Tecnargilla 2016 in “Ceramic Bang” the exhibition section on new trends in materials, technology and aesthetics, curated by the Azzolini Tinuper architectural firm.

The title, which evokes the explosion of primordial matter that created the Earth, aims to recall the evolution of the world of ceramics, from its origins, when it was merely dust, to the ultra-high-definition material of today. With a Bang, everything expands in infinite directions, where dashes of material and colour express the intense phase of technological acceleration that we are experiencing.

Taking centre stage therefore are both colour, which with the assistance of light splits and solidifies, fragments and then rearranges with overlapping, shading and alteration, and material, with which the colour entwines and fuses, to create new dynamism.

The exhibition brings material aspects together with the space dedicated to Color Trends this year, through three dedicated areas:

Ceramic Bang! as technology, the first trend proposed, takes its cue from gravitational waves to provide aesthetic-technological ideas and solutions with great dynamic and energy content. Effects of depth in two dimensions, layering, wrinkling of space expanded and compressed by the waves and lights that highlight the nuances are thus intertwined.

Ceramic Bang! as colour, on the other hand, finds a home amid chromatic disorder that propagates at random. Colour rotates and create graphical spaces with varying degrees of complexity and the surface is composed freely in a varying ratio of empty and full spaces.

The third theme concerns Ceramic Bang! as decoration. Involuntary motion generates unnatural decorations: imperfect, out-of-synch knots, irregular, out-of-line decorations characterise this space where defects and dissonance are prized.

The exhibition on trends in colour, as usual part of the “Ceramic Workshop” macro section at the entrance to Tecnargilla, will instead host the following sections: IED Lab, which will showcase special projects that make alternative use of ceramic materials, carried out by the Istituto Europeo del Design in Milan; the Faenza Artistic Ceramics Museum Area, where some of the most representative pieces from the collections will be on display to illustrate the history of ceramics in the last 30 years; finally, a display of the works entered in the fourth edition of the Tecnargilla Design Award, set up to recognise the most innovative technologies, applications and materials used in the ceramic industry.

Tecnargilla, the most important ceramic industry supply exhibition in the world, is scheduled to run from 26 to 30 September 2016.