1922-2022 “Fioravanti 100!” Fires of Love is a vital exhibition designed to celebrate a cross-section of the artistic work of the great master sculptor-architect and artist Ilario Fioravanti (Cesena 1922-Savignano sul Rubicone 2012). An important exhibition that adds to the series of events of the large 1922-2022 project "Fioravanti 100!", conceived and organized by IL VICOLO, a company of cultural services & exhibition projects, on the occasion of the centenary of its birth.

Ilario Fioravanti is one of the most interesting artists in the panorama of Italian art of the twentieth century. From an early age he experimented with various artistic techniques, starting from drawing through engraving and sculpture up to embracing the figurative arts. Always fascinated by the use of clay in Egyptian, Mesoamerican, Etruscan and African art, he embarks on a career full of contaminations between the contemporary and ancient worlds, which allows him to range and produce an infinite constellation of works in ceramics, polychrome terracotta, maintaining a special predilection for the “earth material”. His tireless research leads him to create several personal exhibitions at national and international level, such as in 2007 at the Koller Galéria in Budapest, and then in Brussels, in 2014, within the semester of Italy's presidency in the European Union.

The exhibition, curated by the architect-art curator Marisa Zattini, intends to highlight a part of his production through about fifty ceramics exhibited in the Project Room of our Museum.

“The artist must be a man who has his roots in ancient art – said Fioravanti himself – because that is all the mystery, to have these very distant roots that absorb man's emotions, complete him and I have this always sought after in my things”.

An ancestral and profound inspiration towards the invisible that becomes visible, which takes shape in his hands, imprinting man's fragility on the raw material so that he can transcend and transmit the hopes, fears and desires of the human experience.