Arte Fiera 2026: Roberta Cacciatore's cameo, between cyanotype and ceramic
There is one week a year when Bologna fills up with people looking at things carefully: the week of Arte Fiera. For me, coming from art history, it's like going home through another door.
Asking an artist to use the oval as a canvas
For a while now I've been running a project: asking visual artists to treat the Gamberini oval as a canvas. What comes out are limited edition cameo, which you can fit on your bag or simply keep.
Roberta Cacciatore and the cyanotype
This year, for the Art City White Night, I hosted Roberta Cacciatore in Via d'Azeglio. Her work starts from the female body and goes through cyanotype: a nineteenth-century photographic technique printed with sunlight, which gives back a single colour, Prussian blue.
For Gamberini she started from the female figure and from what she calls her ceramic tears. She made the cameo one by one, by hand: onto the cyanotype print she applies pieces of ceramic, and the surface stops being flat.
Nothing is left of that series.
Art outside the case
A cameo is worn, and it changes in ten seconds. That's why I started asking artists to work on this format instead of a canvas: a work that leaves the house with you, and that in the evening you take off and set aside.
On the night of the White Night the shop was full of people asking questions. That's when this job makes the most sense to me.
