The museum tour continues with the production after 1928, the year the Bottega d’Arte Ceramica Gatti was founded. The works related to this period offer rich evidence of the collaborative relationships that Riccardo Gatti forged with artists of the Futurist movement, which he later joined personally, becoming known and appreciated in the art world as the first Futurist ceramist, as attested by a 1928 writing by Marinetti.
This collaborative work yielded very important results in the field of decorative arts. From the Bottega Gatti came out vases, plates, coffee services and tiles signed by Balla, Benedetta, Dal Monte, and Fabbri. Thus was implemented one of the most important programmatic points of the Futurist poetics intended to bring the highest expressions of the artistic avant-garde also to everyday objects.
The showcases to follow contain the first works in “reflections” made in the late 1920s and early 1930s: vases, statues, and bowls, in which the technique devised by the master shows, in the vast range of iridescences and tones, an incredible richness.
Riccardo Gatti’s experimentation turned with equal interest to the search for form. Indeed, the showcases that follow preserve the most representative works of the post-World War II period, when the well-known production of ceramics with anthropomorphic, zoomorphic and abstract forms began.
The secret of the reflex technique is still kept alive in the work of the Bottega. The concluding showcases of the itinerary collect the rarest achievements of the last two decades in the continuity of this tradition.