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Oscar Piattella was born in Pesaro in 1932. In 1957 he moved to Cantiano in the province of Pesaro where he lives and works.After a brief figurative experience in his youth, he turned his interests towards the informal movement immediately developing an autonomous language, so much so that in '58 Franco Russoli, director of the Pinacoteca di Brera and one of the most authoritative experts of the Italian militant critic, organizes a personal exhibition for him at the Galleria dell'Ariete in Milan where he enters into relationships with the artists Dorazio, Fontana, Castellani, Andrea Cascella, Nigro, Tancredi, Dangelo , Sotsass, Mulas and others. He also frequents Nanni Valentini, Arnaldo Pomodoro, Pino Spagnulo, Walter Valentini, Vangi, Sguanci, Mattiacci, Claudio Olivieri, Paolo Schiavocampo, Albert Diatò, etc. essays by the most important Italian critics. Among the latest exhibitions are a dozen personal exhibitions in the Arlette Gimaray Gallery in Paris, the two personal exhibitions in the International Gallery in Taichung (Taiwan) and the great exhibition that his city dedicated to him in 2002 whose scientific committee was composed of the poet Yves Bonnefoy , by the art historian Andrea Emiliani, by the art critic Fabrizio D'Amico and by the superintendent of brands Francesco Scoppola. For some years he has turned his interests to the production of designer majolica at the Ceramiche Biagioli company and to poetry, establishing working relationships with important poets: by Anna Buoninsegni he illustrates the book of poems "Itinera"; creates a plaquette with Mario Luzi; he created an anthology on blue for the Unaluna Editions with an essay by Bonnefoy; always with Bonnefoy for Edizioni del Bradipo he produced the volume “La Maison Natale”, prefaced and translated by Fabio Scotto with six original plates; the poet Gianni D’Elia in the catalog of the exhibition "Feeling the matter" dedicates an essay and a poem to him and together they create "The love of things" for the Una luna editions, an art book with thirteen original plates; with the poet Fabio Scotto for the "L’Attentive" editions and translated by Bernard Noel he created the entirely hand-made book "The unknown face" with two pastels and some other interventions.
Mastro Giorgio is one of the oldest and most prestigious factories of traditional ceramic objects in Umbria, from the early 1900s Marsilio Biagioli became the protagonist of the production of dishes, vases, amphorae and other traditional ceramic products pulled on the lathe, with decorative and cooking, even in luster, completely hand-made with the artisan experience handed down over the years.
Traditional decorations have had significant moments since the 1940s thanks to the typical Gubbio floral design with cold patination, a decoration that is articulated in a composition of flowers and leaves on branches and arabesques of oriental derivation.
In the 1950s, after the war, the new factory called La Mastro Giorgio was reborn in Gubbio and the production was enriched with Renaissance and Baroque decorations with the introduction of blue, copper green and black backgrounds.
From the 1960s, shaped forms were introduced by developing the casting technique, the decorations expanded to historical and mythological subjects with dragons and griffins, garlands and baskets, with historical reinterpretation of images from the sixteenth century to the Neoclassical.
Since 1980, Mastro Giorgio has been producing panels, vases, amphorae and plates in Naif, Liberty and Contemporary styles with mythological and everyday subjects, and creates a line of artistic ceramic works with the collaboration of some important artists such as: Trubbiani, Nespolo, Brindisi, Schifano, Minguzzi, Monachesi, and others.
In the same period, the productions were enriched with objects for domestic use and for furnishing outdoor spaces.
Today the production of traditional ceramics La Mastro Giorgio is known and appreciated throughout the world for its quality and aesthetic value, the factory is considered a reference point for traditional Umbrian ceramics.
The love, care and attention with which you have chosen it, for sure, will be breathed and perceived within the environment you have furnished, you and your guests will be able to experience the emotion that the care of choice communicates of your furniture pieces.
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