Giacinto Cerone. L'angelo necessario. Sculture e disegni. Giacinto Cerone. The Necessary Angel. Sculptures and Drawings

Giacinto Cerone (Melfi, 1957 - Rome, 2004) was a sculptor who experimented with different materials without setting himself limits (wood, ceramics, plaster, plastic, metal, stone), using drawing as an autonomous and anticipatory form of the sculptural work, often cadenced in real 'families', to use his own term.
The first anthological exhibition dedicated to him by the MIC in Faenza 'The Necessary Angel. Sculptures and Drawings' traces his activity, revealing the profile of a poetic, disruptive, restless artist, but also a sculptor of great expressive force and formal invention.

The exhibition 'Giacinto Cerone, the necessary angel. Sculptures and drawings' opens on 18 January 2025 at the MIC, Museo Internazionale delle Ceramiche, in Faenza. Twenty years after his death, this large retrospective exhibition, with about 45 sculptures and 35 drawings, aims to delineate the figure of an all-round sculptor and a total sculpture (capable of stretching horizontally or lean against the wall), without remnants, of an artist who was also attentive to the way of installing his exhibits as if they were works in themselves.
The exhibition is curated by art critic Marco Tonelli, promoted by the MIC with the support of the Cerone Archive and private lenders.

The volume, published for this important occasion, is accompanied by texts by Claudia Casali (director of the MIC), Marco Tonelli (curator of the exhibition) and essays by Elena Cavallo (wife of the artist and head of the Cerone Archive).