SLIP POP, REINVENTED POTTERY
ALISON BRITTON PHILIP EGLIN SIMONE FATTAL MAGDALENA SUAREZ FRIMKESS
Works from the Rigo Saitta collection
The exhibition runs from 15 to 26 April 2026, 10am–6pm by appointment, at Magic Milano, a former wine cellar turned intimate gallery in the heart of the historic city.
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Archivorum presents Slip Pop, Reinvented Pottery, an exhibition that brings into resonance the ceramic practices of Alison Britton, Philip Eglin, Simone Fattal and Magdalena Suarez Frimkess. Rather than a conventional group show, the project unfolds as a carefully orchestrated encounter between distinct generations, geographies and artistic languages, all converging around the expressive and conceptual potential of clay.
Conceived as a site-specific installation, the exhibition inhabits the space as a lived environment rather than a neutral display. The works enter into a spatial and intellectual dialogue that connects art, design and publishing, dissolving disciplinary boundaries and foregrounding ceramics as a field of experimentation. Clay becomes a medium of translation — moving fluidly between object and sculpture, surface and structure, intimacy and monumentality.
Slip Pop, Reinvented Pottery is also conceived to unfold across two pivotal cultural moments in Milan: MiART and the Salone del Mobile. These are the weeks when the city becomes an international platform for visual arts and design, drawing galleries, collectors, designers and institutions from around the world. Positioned between these two events, the exhibition operates as a conceptual bridge, reflecting the porous boundaries between contemporary art and design culture.
The Rigo Saitta Collection, from which the works are drawn, is deeply rooted in visual arts, design and artist ceramics — fields that naturally intersect and inform one another. Its focus mirrors the dialogue activated each year by MiART and the Salone del Mobile, where artistic research and design innovation coexist and mutually expand. Within this framework, ceramics is not peripheral to contemporary discourse; it is one of its most radical terrains. In clay, artists negotiate history and rupture, tradition and reinvention, intimacy and monumentality. What appears fragile is, in fact, conceptually formidable. Through narrative imagery, formal rigor, historical memory, and radical reinvention, Slip Pop, Reinvented Pottery reflects on ceramics as a contemporary language capable of absorbing cultural references, political undertones, and personal mythologies. The exhibition positions pottery as both a tactile presence and a conceptual device — a site where material, gesture, and story converge in dynamic tension.
Archivorum is a public association founded in Luxembourg by art lover Mia Rigo, dedicated to rethinking the archive as a living, evolving structure rather than a static repository of the past. The name derives from the Latin word for “archive,” reflecting a commitment to preservation while actively engaging with the present and future. Growing up in Modena, Mia was surrounded by books; her mother played a key role in opening many of the town’s libraries. The story began with a poem by Oriol, written about the “despair of the collector” — the grief of seeing works once loved dispersed and forgotten. That poem became a vow. Mia turned that feeling into a lifelong mission: to ensure that artists and their creations are remembered through their own voices, not only through the narratives of others. This conviction gave birth to Archivorum, a non-profit public association
