Bertozzi & Casoni is a company founded in 1980 in Imola by Giampaolo Bertozzi (Borgo Tossignano, Bologna, 1957) and Stefano Dal Monte Casoni (Lugo di Romagna, Ravenna, 1961).
Their first artistic training takes place at the State Institute of Art for Ceramics in Faenza in a climate dominated by a post-informal "cold" then in vogue. Of greater interest to them are the figurative sculptures by Angelo Biancini, with whom Bertozzi collaborates in the study within the school, the decorative art of Gianna Boschi and the conceptual radicalism of Alfonso Leoni.
Upon completion of their studies, Bertozzi and Casoni attended the Accademia di Belle Arti in Bologna, founded a company and participated in the events that tried to focus the protagonists and the reasons for a "new ceramics".
Executive skills and detached irony already characterize their first creations in thin polychrome majolica. Important is the collaboration (1985-1990) with the Co-operative Ceramics of Imola where they work as researchers in the Centre for Experimentations and Research on Ceramics. In 1987 and 1988 they collaborated with "K International Ceramics Magazine" whose cover images they also made. In the 1980s executive virtuosity reached new apices between sculptural works, intersections with the design and realizations of works by established Italian and European artists: Arman and Alessandro Mendini, among others.
In 1990 they created fountains and large sculptures for urban intervention in Tama, a new neighborhood of Tokyo. In 1993 is the large panel Ditelo with flowers placed on an external wall of the Civil Hospital of Imola. In the 1990s a more conceptual and radical aspect emerged in their work: ceramic takes on ever greater dimensions until it goes into linguistic and realization hyperbole.
