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The exhibition At the Table with Rochester Square opened to the public on 28 October 2023: on the fourth and fifth floors and on the terrace of the Savona Ceramics Museum, the collective works designed by the Rochester Square artists – Francesca Anfossi, Milan Tarascas, Ewelina Bartkowska, Lyson Marchessault, Paulina Michnowska and Lex Franchi – during a summer school residency organized at the end of August 2023 by the curators and the Museum Educational Service.

The summer school involved numerous artists and ceramists enrolled in the various workshops, which thus gave life to the planning of the exhibition, relying on artisan workshops and creative centers such as Studio Ernan Design, Officina Novecento, Municipal School of Ceramics of Albisola Superiore, Casa Museo Jorn and of course the laboratory of the Ceramics Museum.

Terracotta stools and large vases in raw earth and straw inspired by museum collections are flanked by plaster casts in homage to the International Movement for an Imaginary Bauhaus, founded by Asger Jorn and Enrico Baj, decorated table utensils and dedicated pottery vases to the fermentation of foods. The main room is set up as a banquet which will welcome the works around a large table handmade by the workshop participants themselves and which on the occasion of the inauguration of the exhibition was transformed into a real table set available to guests who will be able to taste art with all the senses.

For the entire duration of the exhibition, a laboratory was also active which will allow the public to try their hand at creating sculptures for the earth garden set up on the museum terrace and intended to transport the atmosphere of the Rochester Square nursery from London to the heart of Savona. The entire exhibition revolves around three key elements, well expressed by the claim of the dynamic London studio: Clay, Food, and Garden.