Caruso

2021

Giovanni Pesce

In 1889, the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche wrote: "All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking”. Just like the inspirations and suggestions that the 1970s ceramic cladding of the Leone d'oro hotel in Bari gave me as I brushed against it with an inquisitive hand. The desire to find out more and discover its author: Nino Caruso.

Artist, designer, ceramist and writer. His wide-ranging production reveals a particular attention to the themes of antiquity applied to modernity. Even in his early works, in the 1950s, which were considered primitive and Picasso-like, a study of tradition revisited emerges. It only took a moment to decide to give him the right contribution and dare to connote one of his works with the addition of a floral graphic that brings harmony to life. Giovanni Pesce