Capodimonte Cinderella Prince Italian Porcelain 7.5 lbs Handmade Meneghetti 1974 For Sale

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Capodimonte Cinderella Prince Italian Porcelain 7.5 lbs. handmade by the Italian Sculptor Antonio Meneghetti
1974 weighs 7.5 pounds 10" x 9" x 8" Hand painted and signed.Overlaid on an orange and white checkboard circular base.The item pictured in this listing is the item that will be shipped.

Condition is in preowned excellent. No chips or Cracks. Please view photos as they are a part of the condition description.

Special Notes: The only one on or any where currently online.

Certificato Di Garanzia 626 - Meneghetti - This is without question the most impressive of any of his porcelain pieces.It captures the moment Cinderella found her destiny with the fitting of the slipper.

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LCC – Lewis Clan Collectors BIO

Antonio Meneghetti (1936 – 2013) was born in Italy and ever since the early years of his life spent in the Veneto region he exhibited an interest in learning trades that allowed him to becomefamiliar with many different materials, from wood to iron to ceramics. He studied in Assisi, a town that was instrumental in his artistic training which was later consolidated in Florence, Venice and Rome. Here he opened his first studio in the late 1970s.
He participated in various exhibitions at prestigious museums and institutions in Italy and abroad, such as theRocca Paolinain Perugia;Castel dell’Ovoin Naples;Palazzo della Civiltàin Rome; theCorderie dell’arsenaleand thePalazzo Ducalein Venice; as well as in Saint Petersburg, Brasilia and Beijing, to name just a few. He received threeCulture Awards by the Presidency of the Council of Ministers(1980, 1987 and 1989).
After his death, his workshave beenthe protagonistsinvariousprestigious exhibitions. Meneghetti’s latest personal exhibitionin Italy, “Sculpturing light”, washeld in 2017 in Turin,curated by Ermanno Tedeschi,and featureddesign works, objects and sculptures mostly madein glass atMurano,whilehis lastpersonalexhibitionoutside Italy was held from 27 September to 31 December 2018 at the Shangai Yue Museum of Art.

Art crticGuido Curtowrote: “Antonio Meneghettiwas a joyful, generous and gifted man and these strong personality traits can be seen in his artistic activity. For him, art was chiefly painting, but it was also glasswork (in Murano!) and pure sculpture, which he pursued having studied and gained first-hand knowledge of the great history of Italian art, especially while studying in Rome. During his studies there in history, theology and philosophy, he began as a young man to measure himself against the ancient masters and music. However, it is immediately evident from his work that he was seeking no “mannerisms” or styles from the past to follow or neo-avantgardes to imitate.”
He was a deep lover of life in all its aspects and a fine observer of the world and of human nature. His paintings are characterized by abstract strokes of color, while the human being stands at the center of the design objects. He said of his art: “It is about seizing the universal denominator, the transcendence, the center of a light balance between two colors where they come together.”
The themes of Meneghetti’s artwork are diverse and range from the figurative to the abstract, while his black and white paintings are essential and absolute and represent his highest expression. InMeneghetti’s sculptures emptiness is fundamental and very often it is the most prominent feature, reminiscent of the protagonism of white on canvas.

Antonio Meneghettiwas also a pioneer and wrote extensively about his concept of art. In the 1970s he founded a movement, calledOntoArte, which summarises his artistic thinking.
In confirmation of the fundamental importance thatMeneghettigave to art, in his book “OntoArte, l’In sé dell’arte” (a sort of Manifesto of his vision applied to visual art) he writes: “Being, in its primary state, is an aesthetic act. Even aesthetics must be considered more important than simplicity, uniqueness, goodness.” Aesthetics therefore holds an absolute primacy. But beware, this term should not be meant in its superficiality, but in a profound sense. ForMeneghetti, “beauty” is achieved when someone manages to bring out the harmony within. In other words, for him, the artist must be inspired and moved by a search for inner grace and a desire to express man’s natural yearning for a healthy and harmonious evolution of one’s being.
Antonio Meneghettihighlights then thatOntoArteis not a technique. Techniques may well be countless, but the really important aspect is that the artist bring his “Ontic In-itself” to light. This concept is at the base ofAntonio Meneghetti‘s philosophy, hw defined it as a perfect and vital principle, present in all men under the threshold of their conscience. Something that comes even before the DNA itself and distinguishes and makes every single human being unique.
In discontinuity with the main trends of modern art that characterized the 20th century, too often twisted around strictly conceptual elaborations,Antonio Meneghettitheorizes the importance of beauty and harmony. Basically, it is necessary to recover a concept and a practice of art as a symbol of order and beauty, because art cannot be meant as the transposition of psychoanalytic dreams, or the expulsion and discharge of conflicts or fashion criteria backed by an intrusive, devastating market.Meneghettiwarns against relativism brought about by globalization, for which everything and its opposite are both valid.
“Compared to other artistic trends,” writes Meneghetti, “OntoArte is mainly different in its inspiration. OntoArte does not love the sick, schizophrenic man who looks like living in function of death. It does not share any artistic action that is aggressive or pathological for the human being.” When you look at a work of art, you must feel the warmth of that spiritual transparency that art can give to life.
Education to beautyand creativity is much more important than we are led to think today, for the positive development of the person and for the harmonious evolution of his/her identity. “It is important to let creativity evolve by encouraging its virtuous development. Humanity needs creative souls, today and in the future, more than anything else” saysAntonio Meneghetti.