“Practicing curiosity”. This is Luca Lo Pinto’s recipe to give breath to the contemporary art system overwhelmed by the radical transformations induced by the Covid-19 pandemic.
Lo Pinto, forty-year-old director of Macro in Rome, a museum-magazine that aims to involve a large audience, yesterday opened the cycle of talks on the “Contemporary art system: the professions”, organized by the Catania Academy of various platforms and social networks – Teams, Youtube, Facebook and Instagram – to give life to a debate on the strategies with which the rethinking of the art-public relationship is being tackled throughout Italy.
“An interesting formula – said the president Lina Scalisi – and not only because it takes place via the web. A new way is being born not only of telling a constantly changing reality, but of narrating experiences by comparing them, in search of innovative models. to discuss art. And the debut with Lo Pinto, director of a museum designed to also attract an audience less sensitive to the traditional languages of art, is a way of intercepting the needs of the present “.
“Luca Lo Pinto – added Lorenzo Madaro, professor of Contemporary Art History of Alba and organizer of the series of meetings with his colleague Ambra Stazzone – focused on some fundamental aspects to get out of the current impasse: on the one hand, as mentioned, to practice curiosity and on the other hand to frequent artists in their studios. Always “.
“I believe – he added – that they are the only possible ways to fully live the experience of contemporary art from a very young age, with awareness and passion. I would therefore like our students to enter into this thinking device from their first steps in the Academy. “.
And the students, as confirmed by Ambra Stazzone, followed the event with passion.
“We did not expect – said the teacher – this large number of participants from the first meeting: about three hundred people including students and professors of our Academy, external guests both on Teams and on social networks. It was interesting to see how unconventional Lo Pinto is approaches to the idea of the museum. And his speech, after a first part dedicated to the illustration of the Macro’s activity, saw the active participation of several students “.
Those who wish to follow the meeting, recorded, can do so on the Youtube channel of the Academy of Fine Arts in Catania clicking here
To investigate how museums, curators, galleries, cultural pages of newspapers, magazines, artists are changing, the cycle “Contemporary art system: the professions”, will soon include meetings with important exponents of the Contemporary including Gino Gianuizzi (Galleria Neon, Bologna), Dario Pappalardo (Robinson, Repubblica), Laura Cherubini (Brera Academy), Bettina Della Casa (Giulio Paolini Archive, Turin) and others.
The organization of the meetings and the documentation that will follow is made possible by the work of a team of teachers, experts and students.
“In particular – said Ambra Stazzone – we thank Isabella Gliozzo and Sebastian Passati for their commitment to this first meeting”.