Le Socle d'Albisola

Corrado Levi

Lungomare Montale, Albisola Superiore

Corrado Levi, Le Socle d’Albisola. Lungomare Montale, Albisola Superiore

Corrado Levi, in his multiform work, constantly evokes and refers to images or words of other artists – tributes, dedications, quotations and revaluations dictated by the passion and desire to deconstruct rules and signs with subtlety and irony.
That’s why Corrado Levi, invited for the first time to Albisola in 2003 for the 2nd Biennial of Ceramics in Contemporary Art, designed Le Socle d’Albisola (“The pedestal of Albisola”), a ceramic parallelepiped that (almost entirely) draws on Le Socle du monde (“The pedestal of the world”) by Piero Manzoni, upside-down, because in fact “it is the earth that rests on it and not vice versa”.
Le Socle d’Albisola by Corrado Levi is presented as three tributes in one: to Piero Manzoni, whose history is closely entwined with this land, to the microcosm of Albisola and to its ceramics.

Roberto Costantino

Corrado Levi, Le Socle d’Albisola. Lungomare Montale, Albisola Superiore

Corrado Levi, Le Socle d’Albisola. Lungomare Montale, Albisola Superiore

Corrado Levi, Le Socle d’Albisola. Lungomare Montale, Albisola Superiore

Corrado Levi, Le Socle d’Albisola (prototype)

Le Socle d’Albisola by Corrado Levi was made in Albisola in 2003 during the 2nd Biennial of Ceramics in Contemporary Art

Photography
Fulvio Rosso

Roberto Costantino