Four workshops for a new present through art. The Peggy Guggenheim Collection's New Project.

The Peggy Guggenheim Collection, in collaboration with Swatch Art Peace Hotel, launches a new project, entitled SuperaMenti. Artistic Practices for a New Present. It is a series of four workshops held by four Italian and international artists aimed at young people aged between 16 and 25: four encounters intended to be a challenge to the present, starting from the situation society is experiencing, through theactivation of creative and social processes aimed at creating a new normality. The workshops are imagined as virtuous activators of community spillover mechanisms and as the catalysts of actions aimed at the reappropriation of public spaces and the redefinition of social paradigms.

As stated, the workshops will be held by four artists who will offer four distinct artistic languages, ranging from sculpture to installation, from street art to drawing: Jan Vormann, Stefano Ogliari Badessi, aka S.O.B, Alice Pasquini, and Cecilia Jansson. The goal is to encourage interaction and exchange, physical or metaphorical, among participants, consolidating values such as participation, respect for the environment, and belonging to a community.

The workshops are free of charge and will take place between October 2020 and January 2021 remotely, via the Zoom platform, in preparation for the three-day in-person workshops.

The project is part of the 2018 collaboration between the Peggy Guggenheim Collection and ASviS, the Italian Alliance for Sustainable Development.

From Oct. 1 to 4, German artist Jan Vormann’s workshop, Castles of Glass, is underway: taking a cue from a reflection on the new solutions that must be continually found with respect to the problems of everyday life, ways of communicating public spaces, especially through glass, will be analyzed. All the properties of this material, its beauty, its ability to make itself transparent or conceal vision will be discovered.

From October 29 to 31, it will be the turn of Stefano Ogliari Badessi, in art S.O.B., creator of Chi guarda cosa?, a project aimed at deepening the relationship with the theme of water, strongly integrated in the lagoon environment, through the creation of an installation formed by salvaged materials and consisting of two “floating eyes” to be towed along the canals.

Street artist Alice Pasquini will talk about her art from Nov. 27-29 and involve the public in the workshop Beyond the Wall: Art and Context, which aims to provide an opportunity to reflect on urban transformation and recovery through the study of different techniques of “making street art” and the design of one or more works of public art. Finally, Cecilia Jansson’s Explore the distance workshop in January 2021 will address the theme of the human body understood as an instrument of measurement and limitation.

The collaboration with Swatch Art Peace Hotel enables the participation of two internationally emerging artists S.O.B. and Cecilia Jansson, who have been guests of the artist residency conceived by Swatch in the past.

For more info: www.guggenheim-venice.it/it/educazione/public-programs/superamenti/

Four workshops for a new present through art. The Peggy Guggenheim Collection's New Project.

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