Plain Plate
collezione Megalopoli, 1984
piatto in porcellana di Richard Ginori
bordi dipinti a mano in 4 colori
diametro cm 28.

Biography
Rosanna Bianchi Piccoli was born in Milan in 1929. She studied at Brera, with Guido Ballo, Carlo Carrà and Mauro Reggiani. In the 1950s, she started traveling to broaden her studies and experiences in the area of ceramics. Her goal is to unite ceramic traditions and contemporary art. Her ceramic pieces of those years are characterized by a graffiti-like writing which evokes ancient cultures and re-connects with Post-Picasso and Informal research. In Milan, she matches herself with the young artists of her generation: Aldo and Marirosa Ballo, Ugo Mulas, Dario Fo, Gio and Arnaldo Pomodoro, Alik Cavaliere, Bobo Piccoli, (whom she married in 1965).

A potter in the anthropological sense that Claude Lévi-Strauss accorded the title, Rosanna Bianchi Piccoli undertook a course of research and work that continues till the present. In 1958, she began to work with Galleria Il Sestante on via Spiga in Milan (which represents Ettore Sottsass Jr., the Pomodoro brothers, Hans von Klier and many others). In the 1960s and 70s, she also developed her research in ceramics for design projects for La Rinascente, Pirex Ware, Richard Ginori and Agneta Holst’s Megalopoli.

Principal group shows and one-man exhibitions: Concorso Internazionale di Faenza (1957, 1958, 1960, 1964); Triennale di Milano, (1961,1964); shows of Italian Crafts in Helsinki, (Atheneum Museum), Copenhagen, (Louisiana Museum, Humlebaek), Oslo, (Norway Design Gallery), Goteborg, (Konstmuseet), Stockholm (1961); Belgrade, Sarajevo, Zagreb, Ljubliana, Sofia, Warsaw, Buenos Aires, Frankfurt (1963); Tokyo, New York (1965); XXXVI Biennale Internazionale di Venezia (1972); Terra e Terra Quattro. Museo della Ceramica di Cerro (Laveno), 1989; Galleria Vismara, Milan, (1988, 1997); Galleria Luisa delle Piane, Milan (1996, 1998, 2006); Galleria Avida Dollars, Milan (1996, 2001, 2002); Vietri, (2001); Manifatture Aristocratiche, Palazzo Cavour, Turin, (2002); Alta Temperatura, Museo Palazzo Botton, Castellamonte, (TO), 2004; Terracotta Innanzitutto, Museo delle Ceramiche, Palazzo Toschi Mosca, Pesaro, (2005); Ballo + Ballo, Il linguaggio dell’Oggetto, PAC, Milan, (2009); Arte del Quotidiano, Fondazione Ragghianti, Lucca, (2009), Rosanna Bianchi Piccoli, a restrospective, Museo Internazionale della Ceramica di Faenza, (MIC), 2010, Zoom, Italian Design, Vitra Museum, Wail am Rhein, 2011; Megalopoli, Otto Luogo dell’Arte, Florence, 2011.