A conversation between Arturo Galansino, General Director of Palazzo Strozzi Foundation, Florence Massimiliano Gioni, Associate Director and Exhibition Director at New Museum, New York Chaired by Marco Belpoliti, writer and literary critic
Event organised on the occasion of the exhibition The Guardian Animals + other invisible beings, by Atelier dell’Errore, at Moretti Fine Art, London 4 Oct – 2 Nov 2016
Arturo Galansino and Massimiliano Gioni, with Marco Belpoliti, will dialogue about the vision and the experience of the Atelier dell’Errore, the laboratory of visual arts created 14 years ago as a complementary service to the Child Neuropsychiatric clinics of Reggio Emilia and Bergamo, starting from the book Atlante di zoologia profetica / Prophetic zoological Atlas (edited by Marco Belpoliti, Corraini Edizioni publisher, a sort of atlas with many plates of the Atelier works and a series of multidisciplinary contributions on art and the specificity and exceptionality of the works made by the Atelier youngsters) and the exhibition on show at Moretti Fine Art in London.
There isn't any single reality, nor a unique way of looking at things. Seeing things from different angles is a very fruitful way to come to terms with the world, with our living in this world. The youngsters from Atelier dell’Errore know this very well. Their creative imagination is focused on the representation of animals depicted as ancestral figures, living organisms foreign to any traditional order of scientific classification. The Atelier animals certainly embody the fears and defeats of those drawing them, but more so their need for protection and their powerful drive towards self-assertion. Alive with a visionary energy, the Atelier works spring out of the youngsters' need for assurance and support toward their achieving self-esteem and self-confidence and the development of a fruitful relational system with other people. For the exhibition The Guardian Animals + other invisible beings, made in cooperation with Collezione Maramotti and Max Mara, Atelier dell’Errore has found a suitable interlocutor in Moretti Fine Art, the gallery specialised in important Italian masters, which thanks to its constant research, is an important point of reference for collectors of ancient art. In this new project the Atelier drawings were able to strike a peculiar dialogue with classical works, showing that some themes and archetypes move across art history without any time-based and geographical constraints.
THURSDAY 6 OCTOBER 2016, 7.00 PM
ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI CULTURA
9 BELGRAVE SQUARE
LONDON SW1X 8NX
October 6, 2016