Giampaolo Bertozzi and Stefano dal Monte Casoni have been working together since 1980. Their partnership has resulted in a vast production of art in these 30 years distinguished by executive perfection, technical assertiveness and conceptual sophistication. Masters of doubt, they present works that are iconographically improbable but highly credible because of their powerful presence and disturbing allusions. They communicate with one another and alternate in a constant play of references, staging a representation whose ostentation is worthy of the grand baroque or melodramatic theatre, and whose clarity of language is equal to the calculated verbal engineering of the weightiest narrators of the past century. Architect, lecturer, researcher and critic, Franco Bertoni has over the years turned his studies mainly to neo-classical architecture, Italian and European 20th-century art and ceramics, minimalism and modern architecture. Since 2003 he has been director of the modern and contemporary collections at the Museo Internazionale delle Ceramiche in Faenza. ILLUSTRATIONS: 600 colour
