The MIC is a museum that amazes visitors. The path to the collections opens with an impressive installation by Alberto Burri, testifying to the great participation of contemporary art in the life of the Museum.
The visit continues with the retrospective dedicated to the ceramics of Faenza in the evocative space of the former convent of San Magliorio that collects majolica tiles from the fourteenth century to Seventh-century: elegant artwork in 'archaic' style, ceramics decorated in the style of 'saffera', which includes the precious cobalt blue, Renaissance decorations such as Moorish Hispan, Love Tableware, Majolica porcelain, the decoration “in Berettino”, until the achievement of technical perfection in the “historiated” majolica, to conclude, in the mid-sixteenth century with the 'whites' of Faenza that mark the affirmation of the association between the words Faïence and majolica, which still remains.
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then move on to the new building that houses the collection of modern ceramics, a wide-spectrum vision that includes Galileo Chini's refined Art Nouveau creations, the works of Domenico Chini Baccarini and the artists of the Upper Room that took its name from him, by Arturo Martini, a great interpreter of twentieth century sculpture, by Gio Ponti refined creator of porcelain created by Richard Ginori di Doccia, by Tullio D'Albissola, protagonist with Riccardo Gatti of a futurist season, then Angelo Biancini, Nanni Valentini, Fausto Melotti, Lucio Fontana, Carlo Zauli and many others, until reaching production contemporary.
The visit continues on the ground floor, in the European section with an excellent sampling of works that testify to the artistic currents of twentieth century ceramics. Tribute is paid to the German Jugendstil, Austrian Secessionism, Catalan Modernism, French Art Nouveau and Deco, Scandinavian, Dutch, Central/European, English and Hungarian manufactures.
In this room there is a 'museum inside the museum', dedicated to the works of Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Marc Chagall and Fernand Léger. From 1949, and expressly dedicated to the Museum, it is the oval plate by Picasso depicting “The Dove of Peace”, to which the master attached a card with the inscription “pour un céramiste, here dit l'Italie dit The MIC is really worth a visit, nothing more than its collections can offer a complete vision of international ceramics at the highest level
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