Pesaro: ceramics in the city.

Pesaro boasts a very ancient tradition of ceramic manufacturing which has not died out at all. Even today there are many enthusiasts, experts and curious people. Friends of ceramics exist and ceramic objects are in every home, they are often a precious and welcome gift, they are a symbol of the city.

 Two important collections constitute the rich testimony of the evolution of techniques and styles: the one in the Civic Museums where ancient ceramics are preserved and the one in the Mengaroni art high school where a collection testifies to contemporary experimentation.

The collections are not fully valorised if they are not reconnected with the urban fabric that produced them and therefore if the testimonies widespread in the city are not valorised: the laboratories, of which some excellent examples remain today; the historic houses and laboratory houses, which are an interesting example of revival taste, that is, in which styles from the past were recalled, the main characteristic of the decorative activity of the Pesaro ceramists; but also the presence of ceramic decorations in contemporary architecture; and even the shop windows where ceramics are offered.

In short, a lively and widespread taste and to grasp it you have to look around, stitch together the fabric of places that seem to have no connection with the history of Pesaro ceramics and which are still fundamental today for keeping the memory alive and even more so for telling its evolution in the territory. In other words you need to build a walkscape.

Concept: Roberto Vecchiarelli

With the contribution of Federico Malaventura

Walkscape: Antonella Micaletti

Coordination / Digitalization: Settimio Perlini

Photo Roberto Vecchiarelli, Fausto Schiavoni, Marcello Sparaventi (interior of the Premuda/Sora house)

Photographic documentation: Gabriele Stroppa Nobili