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On the occasion of the exhibition Maria Helena Vieira da Silva: Anatomy of Space, The Peggy Guggenheim Collection presents the workshop FONDALI, curated and led by artist Ginevra Dolcemare.
The workshop draws inspiration from Maria Helena Vieira da Silva’s interest in representing space and is open to anyone who would like to explore drawing as an analogical instrument to record the present and impact the imagination.
By employing a simple set of instruments—eyes, paper, and pens—participants will examine the world’s spatial assets (interior space, urban space, and social space) by traversing, observing a creating a reportage of Venice. The result will be a collective atlas made of synthetic images and impressions, symbols and hieroglyphics.
Considering that sign can be a performative gesture, and performative gesture a sign, the workshop includes a final presentation open to the public: the drawings will create an object which is evocative, but also tangible of what did imagination is capable of. The imaginal architects will therefore fill different roles: observers, spectators, translators, creators, and mediators of a vernacular reality.
PROGRAM
| Tuesday, June 10 |
drawing workshop from 10 am–5 pm, with a break from 1–2 pm |
| Wednesday, June 11 | drawing workshop from 10 am–5 pm, with a break from 1–2 pm |
| Thursday, June 12 |
drawing workshop from 10 am until performance open to the public in afternoon (optional). |
IMPORTANT information
- “Being good at drawing” is not a requirement.
- The workshop is for young people and adults, aged 13 or above.
- The workshop takes place on June 10–12, from 10 am–5 pm. Those who join must be able to guarantee their participation on all days.
- Participation is free. Booking is required through this page.
- The workshop takes place in Italian.
Participants will engage in:
- Ativities exploring drawings techniques
- Pictorial Turn and visual culture
- Ekphrasis and mise-en-scene
- Gestalt
- Epopteia and testimony
For further information:
+39 041 2405 430
didattica@guggenheim-venice.it
Ginevra Dolcemare is a visual artist, researcher, and performer. After completing her undergraduate degree in sculpture at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, Milan, she enrolled in postgraduate studies in Theater and Performing Arts at IUAV university of Venice, where since 2022 she has been a teaching assistant on courses of Theater Performance and Aesthetics. She has been carrying out her own authorial research since 2015, hybridizing performance and drawing instruments and techniques through people- and site-specific methods. She has published Reactions (Fuzao Studio, 2019), a manual of illustrated exercises that converge into practices of imagination as an act of political reconfiguration, and eye/I/eye (Adriatico Book Club, 2023), an illustrated essay on an original performance project, freely inspired by Italo Calvino’s Mr. Palomar (1983). Since 2024 she has been a member of the convivial collective Tocia! Cucina e Comunità.