An absolute protagonist of contemporary art , a very talented and rebellious genius, unfortunately died prematurely. The next major exhibition at the MIC in Faenza is dedicated to Alfonso Leoni , in the fortieth year of his death. A long research work, curated by Claudia Casali, in collaboration with the Archivio Leoni, which collects for the first time all the artist's work in an anthology, with the aim of analyzing the rich and intense production dedicated not only to to ceramics but also to the different languages of contemporaneity (painting, graphics, design, sculpture).

Although Alfonso Leoni lives in the province (he studies art and ceramics at the Ballardini Art Institute where, since 1961, he also became a teacher of Plastic Arts) his artistic research is constantly against the tide, projected to the new: to undermine ceramics from mere aspects technical and functional to elevate it to a sculptural material.

Leoni is a child of his time. A period that of the late 60s and 70s of struggles and disputes that in art translates into neo-avant-garde: pop art, new realism, happening, performance and minimalism. He updates himself on contemporary art and looks at Fontana, Leoncillo and at the same time Japanese art. He understands that gestures, action and imperfection (the wabi-sabi, beauty of the imperfect of Buddhist philosophy) are themes almost intrinsic to his favorite medium: clay .