2022
Sergia Avveduti, Riccardo Previdi and Andrea Kvas
#01
Workshop
“Flying Lessons (looking beyond the clouds)”
with Riccardo Previdi
When adult talk becomes too serious, there is only one thing left for children – and not only – to do… fly! Not to escape but to take distance, to change perspective. Flying as an invitation to not close oneself off, to broaden one’s outlook, to make room for something new that is yet to come.
To do this you don’t need aeroplanes, you need imagination and presence and the mental openness to welcome without prejudice what is in front of you. “Order and disorder”. And so, moving among the clouds -with our feet firmly planted on the ground- our flying lessons will take place. With crayons, paper and a projector.
Riccardo Previdi
Riccardo Previdi was born in Milan in ’74 where he studied architecture at the Politecnico and visual arts at the Brera Academy. This dual education led him to become interested in the relationship between art and design. He lives between Zurich, Berlin and Milan. His artistic research questions the possibilities and limits of technological/scientific thinking by exposing the complex mechanisms behind the objects and images that surround us in everyday life. He has exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions both in Italy and abroad.
#02
Workshop
“The Blue Forest”
with Andrea Kvas
“The Blue Forest” is an intensive gestural painting session focusing on the use of a single colour, blue. Participants will adopt the artist’s characteristic way of painting, working on raw fabrics placed all over the floor, so that they can completely immerse themselves in the pictorial space. At the end of the session, the material produced will be lifted up and hung in the room to create a forest of gestures and experimentation.
Everything blue!
Andrea Kvas
Andrea Kvas (Trieste, 1986) lives and works in Milan. His work blends a playful and instinctive approach to painting with an analysis and reassessment of the codes that distinguish this discipline. His pictorial research requires different schemes of fruition that have led him to find various intersections with sculptural, relational and curatorial practices. He has exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Italy and abroad.
#03
Workshop
“Are they rocks or are they clouds?”
with Sergia Avveduti
Buzzati dedicated a famous thought to the colours of the Dolomites, based on the impossibility of describing their ineffable nuances with a single adjective: ‘Is it white? yellow? grey? mother-of-pearl? is it ash? is it silver reflection? is it the pallor of the dead? is it the complexion of roses? Are they stones or are they clouds? Are they real or a dream?”. The Dolomites are “the Glass Mountains”, the product of a curious series of events. They are the walls of a coral reef once immersed in the warm water of a tropical sea, teeming with life. Almost a freak of nature, whereby the seabed of a prehistoric ocean was catapulted thousands of metres upwards by telluric movements until it lapped at the clouds from which the snows flowed.
Yesterday colourful fish and twisted shells, today high-altitude glaciers. Even without knowing much about geology there is enough to trigger an imaginary and to suggest antinomian aspects: ancient, earthly and geological nature in contact with the impalpable meteorology of air and clouds.
The workshop led by Sergia Avveduti involves the creation of emotional maps that narrate a different and stratified personal geography. A form of finite/infinite made of impalpable pastel drawings telling the memory of things. A search between earthly nature and aerial nature, giving rise to impossible landscapes interwoven with real elements.
Sergia Avveduti
Born in Lugo (Ravenna) in 1965, Sergia Avveduti lives and works in Bologna. She has been a visual artist since 1997 and a lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna since 2003. The artist mainly turns her attention to the endless archive of images offered by the History of Art, giving it a different interpretation. The fascination with the human knowledge identified as Art and Architecture creates worlds connected to a personal imagery and the idea of travel. Photographs, videos, installations, sculptures and drawings are the privileged languages, crossed by a light and lyrical narrative vein. He has exhibited in numerous public and private spaces.
#04
“ÓPLA – a heritage to be re-discovered
25 years of the ÓPLA Archive and artist’s books’
– 25 Years of ÓPLA Archive
Introduction by Marzia Corraini, editor and scientific advisor of the ÓPLA Archive
– Collaboration between ÓPLA Archive and Merano Arte/Kunst Meran
Martina Oberprantacher, director of Merano Arte/Kunst Meran
– Design and artist’s books
Giorgio Camuffo, lecturer at the Faculty of Design and Art, Unibz
– Publishers and artists’ books
Angelika Burtscher, publisher and founder of Lungomare
– Possible uses of books from ÓPLA Archive
Riccardo Previdi, artist