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making of

wednesdays and fridays with
making of
Casino Luxembourg  -  Forum d’Art Contemporain
16.09.2012 – 16.12.2012

 

wednesdays and fridays with Adrian Paci and Chiara Camoni

26.10.2012

 

I attented a workshop with Adrian Paci at Viafarini in Milano. For the last day he asked us to bring something with us: a text, or an object and to share it with the others.
I didn’t have many things with me for this short trip. But I had a book in which a short and surprising text was written in Spanish. I do not speak Spanish. I asked a girl to read this text for an audience who mostly didn’t speak Spanish. The message was clear. Everybody was smiling.
This time I asked Adrian to bring something and to share it with us.

Chiara Camoni had invited me in 2007 to participate to her project “Letargo” at MAGra.
MAGra is a mini-open chapel on a mountain were artistic projects are organized. My work had to last for about 3 months, during the winter season. It was a story of time, shared time, nature. The experience was unique. For this occasion I filled in the tiny space of the chapel with earth, soil, till the level of the blue starry painted sky on the upper side of the wall. In the human architecture sky could touch again the earth’s profile. The horizon of the outer world continued inside. Nature and insects had a place for the hard wintertime in Granara.
This time I asked Chiara to propose something concerning time, confidence and relation.

Adrian Paci responded to the idea of making of. Chiara Camoni responded to relation: inviting and interacting deepening the art experience through sharing.


Thank you Adrian. Thank you Chiara.

Since the big hall upstairs was empty, Chiara and Adrian's works stepped out from my studio and were shown for a week. Most of the interventions of wednesdays and fridays with lasted more than one day.

 

 

 

Hello Leonora,
This is my contribution to your proposal.
1945: end of the second world war.
At this moment many Italians were in Albania. They had come during the fascist occupation: soldiers, technicians, nuns, priests, nurses and prostitutes. With the end of the war Albania closed its frontiers and asked Italy to pay for the injuries and damages of the war, holding hostage these Italians in Albania. From Italy many letters, which will never reach their destinations, were sent but blocked at the military censorship office. I am working on this story. I share with you a small detail of these letters. I hope you will find it interesting.
Good luck for everything,
Adrian

 

the following image refer to Adrian Paci's work_© Adrian Paci

 

 

 

 

Hello Leo,
these drawings are part of the series “Capolavori” (Masterpieces) realized in collaboration with my grandmother Ines Bassanetti, when she was older than 90 years old.
From 2001 to 2007 she was my assistant and she drew for me every day. During this time I stopped drawing. She was doing it in my place.
In the series “Capolavori” she redrew some of the most famous Italian masterpieces. Before her eyes these masterpieces appeared as new, as new were these versions she drew anew.

 

Ines Bassanetti
Capolavori
Curated by Chiara Camoni
Series of 8 drawings, pencil on paper
33 x 33 cm 
2004

 

Beato Angelico - Pala dell’Annunciazione

Leonardo Da Vinci - La Gioconda

Giotto – S. Francesco, la predica agli uccelli

Michelangelo - David

Caravaggio - Canestro con frutta

Cimabue - Crocifisso

Duccio - Madonna Ruccellai

Canaletto - Il molo e la riva degli Schiavoni, dal bacino di S. Marco

 

the following image refer to Chiara Camoni's work_© Chiara Camoni

 

upcoming

My proposal for this wednesdays and fridays with happened to take place almost at the end of the project. I wished to make a performance at a specific moment and within a specific context.

I invited people to read about art. Casino Luxembourg has a wonderful library. The readings were fragments I had chosen from books in different languages not evidently mastered by the participants. The idea was once again to guive a certain priority to perception than comprehension or better to how we try to comprehend things once it's not possible for us to understand what is said. What can we learn from the sound, pronounciation of an unknown language?

How do we face an unknown material? Creativity happens where unknown possibilities develop and open to imaginary connections and possibilites. People joined to read and gathered in my new studio which had stepped out of my studio. The container had become a content in itself and this content became then a new space to contain other activities. This way my intervention was also without previously establihing it in, shown and especially acted in the big hall upstairs.