About Ugo La Pietra
Artist, architect, designer, and researcher in the large area of communication systems, he has been developing since 1962 an activity aimed at clarifying the "individual-environment" relationship. From the sixties, he developed an intense experimental activity, which became concrete in the theories of the "Unbalancing System", an original and personal contribution to European radical design. He realizes experimental environments in 1968 at the Milan Triennale and in 1972 at the New York MoMA for the exhibition "Italy: the new domestic landscape"; he is the curator of t...Read More
Featured Pieces
Ugo La Pietra Artificial Nature #6 Recycled Fibers Tapestry
By Ugo La Pietra
Located in Milan, IT
Ugo La Pietra artificial nature #6 recycled fibers tapestry
Ugo La Pietra presents his tapestries as a decorative exercise in homage to the “garden”; these works represent for the...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Tapestries
Materials
Natural Fiber
Contemporary Ceramic Vasetto Scaramantico Superstitious Little Jar
By Ugo La Pietra
Located in Milan, IT
Ugo La Pietra Vasetto Scaramantico superstitious little jar
From the tradition of Campania ceramics, jar with a superstitious hand. Molded, glazed and hand-...
Category
Early 2000s Italian Jars
Materials
Ceramic
Ugo La Pietra Artificial Nature #2 Recycled Fibers Tapestry
By Ugo La Pietra
Located in Milan, IT
Ugo La Pietra artificial nature #2 recycled fibers tapestry
Ugo La Pietra presents his tapestries as a decorative exercise in homage to the “garden”; these works represent for the...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Tapestries
Materials
Natural Fiber
Ugo La Pietra Artificial Nature #1 Cotton Silk Virgin Wool Tapestry
By Ugo La Pietra
Located in Milan, IT
Ugo La Pietra Artificial Nature #1 cotton silk virgin wool tapestry
Ugo La Pietra presents his tapestries as a decorative exercise in homage to the “garden”; these works represent...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Tapestries
Materials
Wool, Cotton, Silk
"Inner Strength" Handmade Black Ceramic Bucchero Tuscan Etruscan Vase #17
By Ugo La Pietra
Located in Milan, IT
Ugo La Pietra "Inner strength" vase #17
From the "Inner strength" collection, ceramics dedicated to the theme of "virility".
"Inner strength" alluding to powerful musculature that gives expression to the forms, highlighted by the black, compact, glossy surfaces that recall an archaic wrestler's skin gleaming with perspiration. Physical and emotive energy capable of changing the balance of traditional vase shapes, accompanied by votive objects...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Vases
Materials
Ceramic
"Mediterranean Table" 1992 Ceramic Table Handmade Unique Piece Sculpture
By Ugo La Pietra
Located in Milan, IT
Ugo La Pietra "Mediterranean Table" 1992 ceramic table
Large table/sculpture with three-dimensional ceramic top modeled by hand, depicting the Italian Mediterranean landscape with rivers, valleys, woods, hills, gardens, squares, the variety of Mediterranean vegetation.
Terracotta molded...
Category
20th Century Italian Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
"Inner Strength" Handmade Black Ceramic Bucchero Tuscan Etruscan Vase #15
By Ugo La Pietra
Located in Milan, IT
Ugo La Pietra "Inner strength" vase #15
From the "Inner strength" collection, ceramics dedicated to the theme of "virility".
"Inner strength" alluding to powerful musculature that gives expression to the forms, highlighted by the black, compact, glossy surfaces that recall an archaic wrestler's skin gleaming with perspiration. Physical and emotive energy capable of changing the balance of traditional vase shapes, accompanied by votive objects...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Vases
Materials
Ceramic
"Inner Strength" Handmade Black Ceramic Bucchero Tuscan Etruscan Vase #14
By Ugo La Pietra
Located in Milan, IT
Ugo La Pietra "Inner strength" vase #14
From the "Inner strength" collection, ceramics dedicated to the theme of "virility".
"Inner strength" alludi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Vases
Materials
Ceramic
"Inner Strength" Handmade Black Ceramic Bucchero Tuscan Etruscan Vase #13
By Ugo La Pietra
Located in Milan, IT
Ugo La Pietra "Inner strength" vase #13
From the "Inner strength" collection, ceramics dedicated to the theme of "virility".
"Inner strength" alluding to powerful musculature that gives expression to the forms, highlighted by the black, compact, glossy surfaces that recall an archaic wrestler's skin gleaming with perspiration. Physical and emotive energy capable of changing the balance of traditional vase shapes, accompanied by votive objects...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Vases
Materials
Ceramic
"Inner Strength" Handmade Black Ceramic Bucchero Tuscan Etruscan Vase #16
By Ugo La Pietra
Located in Milan, IT
Ugo La Pietra "Inner strength" vase #16
From the "Inner strength" collection, ceramics dedicated to the theme of "virility".
"Inner strength" alluding to powerful musculature that gives expression to the forms, highlighted by the black, compact, glossy surfaces that recall an archaic wrestler's skin gleaming with perspiration. Physical and emotive energy capable of changing the balance of traditional vase shapes, accompanied by votive objects...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Vases
Materials
Ceramic
"Inner Strength" Handmade Black Ceramic Bucchero Tuscan Etruscan Vase #9
By Ugo La Pietra
Located in Milan, IT
Ugo La Pietra "Inner strength" vase #9
From the "Inner strength" collection, ceramics dedicated to the theme of "virility".
"Inner strength" alluding to powerful musculature that gives expression to the forms, highlighted by the black, compact, glossy surfaces that recall an archaic wrestler's skin gleaming with perspiration. Physical and emotive energy capable of changing the balance of traditional vase shapes, accompanied by votive objects...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Vases
Materials
Ceramic
"Inner Strength" Handmade Black Ceramic Bucchero Tuscan Etruscan Vase #7
By Ugo La Pietra
Located in Milan, IT
Ugo La Pietra "Inner strength" vase #7
From the "Inner strength" collection, ceramics dedicated to the theme of "virility".
"Inner strength" alluding to powerful musculature that gives expression to the forms, highlighted by the black, compact, glossy surfaces that recall an archaic wrestler's skin gleaming with perspiration. Physical and emotive energy capable of changing the balance of traditional vase shapes, accompanied by votive objects...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Vases
Materials
Ceramic
