An episode of Art Night dedicated to the Academies of Fine Arts and the artists of the future

It will talk about the artists of the future in the episode of Art Night airing on Rai 5 today, Friday, Dec. 3, at 9:15 pm. And it will do so starting from the Italian Academies of Fine Arts. That is, beautiful places dense with history where architecture, archaeology and important art collections happily coexist. In some cases, as in Brera and Venice, they have given rise to extraordinary picture galleries, which today are autonomous from the school but owe their existence to it. They are thus in themselves fascinating places that invite storytelling. But they are also places that question us, that pose topical questions for all those interested in art. Can art be taught? And can it be learned? What does a talent need to grow? Do the traditional disciplines, the long hours spent drawing from life or modeling clay, still make sense now that technology has made inroads into art with new materials, new techniques, and a virtually infinite variety of possible approaches to making a work of art? Now that the very definition of a work of art is at the center of a dense philosophical debate?

Tonight’s episode of Art Night turns these questions to the Directors but also to the students of four prestigious historical academies: those of Bologna, Carrara, Ravenna and Venice, as part of Mario Tugnoli’s documentary Learning Art, produced by Mark in video, in collaboration with Rai Cultura, and premiering tonight. In Bologna, we talk about the multidisciplinary approach and contemporaneity through various chairs, from Painting to Comics and Illustration to Didactics and Art Communication; in Carrara the focus is on Sculpture and the international world of marble, from Quarries to Ateliers; in Venice, here is the relationship between tradition and innovation, discovering how a traditional course, that of Artistic Anatomy, can be renewed without losing its roots, and what opportunities a course that is both ancient and very modern, that of Engraving and Graphics, can open up. Finally, in Ravenna, we close with a look at the precious universe of mosaics.

Art Night continues with Millenniarts by Luigi Pingitore produced by No Spoon film, in collaboration with Rai Cultura. Three artists seemingly without any point of contact, namely street artist Jorit, sculptor Jago and performance artist Virginia Zanetti, are united by a common thread: they are young, all three are projected on a path of growth and affirmation, they belong to the generation of millennials so they use social media and live streaming to make themselves known. But they have one obsession: making art. Does being an artist today, as we enter the second decade of the new millennium, still make sense? What is their audience? And what drives them to invest every day of their lives in creating work that will end up attracting both criticism and acclaim? These are the questions the documentary attempts to answer.

Art Night, hosted by Neri Marcorè, is a program by Silvia De Felice and Emanuela Avallone, Massimo Favia, Alessandro Rossi, with direction by Andrea Montemaggiori.

Image: the Academy of Fine Arts of Carrara.

An episode of Art Night dedicated to the Academies of Fine Arts and the artists of the future

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