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Giorgio Griffa, who was born in Turin in 1936, is hard to fit into any specific art movement. In fact, the appeal of his works, produced in the course of a career spanning more than 50 years, has to do with a kind of elusive quality they have.

Gauguin started studying wood- and ceramics-based arts during his first stay in Pont-Aven, Brittany, in 1886 but it was only in 1888 that he started, with Chaplet’s help, to make and sell his first complete ceramic works.

Women’s fight for equality, respect and recognition for their work has moved to a new level in recent months thanks to the #Me Too movement in the United States and #balancetonporc in France.

“And about time,” one might say.

March 11, 1915, the world gets introduced to a 22-year-old Italian artist born in Trentino, Fortunato Depero.