THE ART OF THE TABLE

Innovations and changes in perspective need a dose of impertinence, of healthy amusement on behalf of the curious who’s drawn to step out of line.  So it was for Gualtiero Marchesi’s tableware, a step ahead that follows the one made in the kitchen. There is an image that is repeated, visible and invisible, in the gestures of the teacher.

The ancestral image of a hand grasping and containing, of a farmer and craftsmen, symmetrical to the gaze that does not turn around things, but contemplates them for what they could be. It is this frame of mind, averse to complexity and akin instead to a continuous need for synthesis that allows him, by a leap, to put things in place, illuminating them from a new point of view. His formal research could not rule out tableware and the tools that stage