At Manifattura Tabacchi six artists confront each other in exhibition on the theme of wonder

From June 1 to 28, 2020, the Manifattura Tabacchi will offer the exhibition La meraviglia featuring the six artists who participated in the second edition of Artist Residencies, a project conceived and curated by Sergio Risaliti.

The works of Davide D’Amelio, Anna Dormio, Bekhbaatar Enkhtur, Esma Ilter, Giulia Poppi, and Negar Sh will be on display, and with the opening of the exhibition, the applications for the third and final edition of the program, which will be dedicated toHarmony, also officially kicks off: the six artists will be announced in July and will participate in the next Residencies from September to December 2020.

The 2019-2020 edition, on the other hand, has been dedicated to the theme of Wonder, in its broadest sense: from materials to technologies, from images to industrial and artisanal, artistic and poetic production. The Manifattura Tabacchi project was conceived and curated by Sergio Risaliti in collaboration with Paolo Parisi, in the role of tutor. The artists interacted for six months with the spaces and history of Manifattura Tabacchi, but also with the outside world. They had the opportunity to approach the relationship between entrepreneurship and craftsmanship through visits to art collections such as the Gori Collection at Fattoria Celle, to places of marble production, such as the Cave Michelangelo Art Studios and the Fantiscritti Quarry Museum, to glass and woodworking, respectively Collevilca and Adarte, and to bronze casting, such as the Ferdinando Marinelli Artistic Foundry.

In residence, they were confronted with the design of individual and collective works created at the end of a rich program of workshops and seminars held by Stefania Galegati, Rä Di Martino, Pantani-Surace, Goldschmied&Chiari, Elena Mazzi and Robert Pettena.

“The comparison of cultures, lifestyles and individual characters,” said Sergio Risaliti, “is even more felt this year because of the historical-geographical and cultural variety of the six artists, who come from Mongolia, Turkey, Iran, Emilia Romagna, Puglia and Molise. These very different histories and identities found a point of coagulation in the collective works that the artists created at the end of the six workshops. This is, in my opinion, one of the most interesting results of the training course that gives a unique value to the Manifattura Tabacchi Residencies.”

During the Residency, the six artists were able to enrich their training through discussions with established artists and curators such as Alberto Garutti, Domenico Bianchi and Giacinto Di Pietrantonio. The exhibition is thus the end result of this path taken under the banner of experimentation and multidisciplinarity, including photography, painting, drawing, sculpture, installations and video.

“What is more pertinent to art than the term wonder?” concluded Risaliti. “Isn’t creating wonderful things, generating wonder, the ultimate goal of artistic creativity? Thinking about wonder, wonderful things, we asked the artists-in-residence to focus on a magic word like that. Wonder is perhaps the first emotion that aroused man from unconsciousness by enjoying the spectacle of nature, marveling at his own thinking and manufacturing skills. They intersected, an extraordinary and irreversible fact, the feeling and the thing. The vision and the feeling. Imagine the wonder sprung before the starry sky. Wonder softened the terror of being in the world. Wonder dilated perceptions by expanding the visual horizon. Intelligence and imagination. ’Wonder’ is the term that serves as a frame and starting point for the artistic gesture, suitable for the overall project of Manifattura Tabacchi, where knowledge is essentially linked to know-how against the repetition of patterns, of stereotypes, as opposed to the always the same. Six young artists from different cultures and backgrounds - Davide D’Amelio, Anna Dormio, Bekhbaatar Enkhtur, Esma Ilter, Giulia Poppi, and Negar Sh - have created a new-renaissance experience. Because art has always been the production of wonderful things.”

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Pictured, work by Davide D’Amelio Ph.Credit Leonardo Morfini

At Manifattura Tabacchi six artists confront each other in exhibition on the theme of wonder

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