LAB | ALESSANDRA CECCHINI: GUARDARE, DISEGNARE, IMMAGINARE E DI NUOVO DISEGNARE
21 gennaio – 27 maggio 2023
Il laboratorio dell’artista Alessandra Cecchini verte sull’idea di disegno come strumento di conoscenza del mondo.
During the different episodes of the workshops, participants will investigate the act of observing, and record, on their sketchbooks, the various stages of this journey. In this way Alessandra Cecchini wishes to expose children to the concepts of wonder and amazement that accompany the creative process.
Among the objectives of the workshop is that of overcoming the very idea of mistake, thinking of the various pages of the sketchbook as crucial moments for analyzing reality and thus pinning down what one actually sees.
After an initial moment of observation and representation of their surroundings, participants will be asked to rework objective data, through a process of free interpretation, using new signs and colors, imagining possible realities previously unthinkable.
Starting from the images produced over the months, a collective installation will be created as a way to convey the results of the workshop.
Alessandra Cecchini (Rieti, 1990) è un’artista italiana che vive e lavora a Roma.
Her work revolves around the image - understood as an external form - and the dynamics through which it determines and constructs our perception of the world. This fragmented and recomposed world, juxtaposed and dual, appears as the territory of encounter and clash between the real and the virtual. The result is a hybrid context within which the artist explores contradictory elements and fluid boundaries as well as spaces of continuity. The images that interest her practice are precisely those that cast doubt on our certainties regarding supposed transitional zones from the real to the virtual.
Since 2019, Alessandra Cecchini has been part of Spazio In Situ, and since 2020, she has been part of the editorial team of ISIT, an online and offline platform founded by Andrea Frosolini and Federica Di Pietrantonio. The following year, she curated the column Notes on Contemporary within the magazine. Among the exhibitions she has participated in as an artist in the last year are: The Milky Way 06 VERAcurated by Damiana Leoni, at Galleria Alessandra Bonomo, Rome; Materia Novacurated by Massimo Mininni, Galleria d’Arte Moderna di Roma; IperSitucurated by Daniela Cotimbo, Spazio In Situ, Roma; Made In Italycurated by Porter Ducrist, at Tilt, Renens (CH). In 2022, she was a finalist at the XV edition of the Talent Prize with the work Postcards are always from somewhere elseIn 2021, she curated with ISIT: the exhibition ISIT.exhi at Spazio In Situ (May-June 2021), the video review Pon The Replayat Mockjungle, Bologna; the solo exhibition of Elena Perugi at ISIT's booth during ArtVerona 2021, in the Pages section.