Officine dell'arte
Careof and Viafarini inaugurate in the spaces of Fabbrica del Vapore the group exhibition of artists from the Archivio coordinated by visiting professors Stefano Arienti and Italo Zuffi. The two artists conducted from September to November two workshops in the spaces of the residencies FDV Residency Program and VIR Viafarini-in-residence, managed by the two organizations.
The two workshops and the exhibition involve twenty-six artists: with Stefano Arienti worked Marco Belfiore, Gaia Carboni, Sara Enrico, Emila Faro, Niccolò Gandolfi, Gabriele Garavaglia, Katja Noppes, Richard Sympson, Felice Serreli, Marcello Spada, Carloalberto Treccani; with Italo Zuffi worked Sara Benaglia, Filippo Berta, Gianluca Concialdi, Ilaria Cuccagna, Mariana Ferratto, Tony Fiorentino, Alessandro Laita, Andrea Mineo, Serena Osti, Ambra Pittoni, Iacopo Seri, Francesco Sollazzo, and Alberto Venturini. Giada Lusardi, a student at the Università degli Studi di Parma, followed the various moments of this second workshop attempting to restitute it in the form of a diary. The workshops started from the themes proposed by Stefano Arienti and Italo Zuffi.
The selected artists had the opportunity to compare their work with that of the visiting professors: from this dialogue the exhibition path took shape, set up in the spaces of Careof and Viafarini.
The results of the project are documented by a catalog published by Silvana Editoriale, produced thanks to the collaboration between art directors Tommaso Garner and Francesco Valtolina and curated by Chiara Agnello and Milovan Farronato.
With the contribution of Fondazione Cariplo and Fondazione Banca del Monte di Lombardia
In collaboration with Regione Lombardia and GAMeC
Bio
Stefano Arienti initiated a process of awareness towards the image through a careful investigation that touched every realm of the visible, highlighting on one hand the often overlooked multiplicity of what appears before us; on the other, the tendency of our gaze—biased by habit—to uncritically and passively accept what surrounds us. His focus also extended to the materials and techniques through which images are constructed and presented. Thus, a book can transform into a volume, a comic into a cylinder, and a drawing can regain the plastic form it only previously mimicked.
Italo Zuffi, instead, proposed a workshop structured around the use of the body as both means and expressive place, aimed especially at those interested in developing a performative practice, with the possibility to experiment between gesture, action, and the use of speech, up to the creation of objects or installation interventions. During the sessions, exercise, discussion, and thought were developed while holding firm to the concept of non-spectacularity, also defining a series of words or themes in which participants could recognize themselves, used for the elaboration of intense and personal manifestations.
