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| Reportage 19. august 2005 |
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| Reportage: Trevi workshop |
Sergei Sviatchenko, the
artist and curator of Senko Studio in Viborg, was invited by Maurizio
Coccia - director of the world-famous Flash Art Museum based in Trevi,
Italy - to be one of the 16 artists participating to a one-week workshop
with the students of 7 primary and secondary schools of Umbria. The result
was exhibited at Trevi Flash Art Museum.
Text: Lorenzo Carrara
Photo: Sergei Sviatchenko |
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| It all happened in May… Sergei Sviatchenko,
the artist and curator of Senko Studio in Viborg, was invited by Maurizio
Coccia - director of the world-famous Flash Art Museum based in Trevi,
Italy - to be one of the 16 artists participating to a one-week workshop
with the students of 7 primary and secondary schools of Umbria. Umbria – as
many of you already know – is considered the “green heart of
Italy”, as it lies right in the centre of the Italian country, next
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| The children |
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Sergei Sviatchenko in action |
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| Sviatchenko and Coccia had already met in Viborg,
while setting up the ground-breaking exhibition “On the Wall”,
presented at Senko Gallery in January; Coccia was in fact the curator of
that successful exhibition. When the two met, one of the things they discussed
was how to establish a long-term relationship between Flash Art Museum
and Senko Studio. Both of these institutions are much more than just exhibition
spaces open to the best international contemporary artists; this year,
in fact, they established themselves as Cultural, Non-Profit Associations
working to promote Contemporary Art in Europe and throughout the world. |
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| The workshops with the students at Flash Art
Museum saw their first, successful edition in 2004 in Trevi, the small
Umbrian town where the Museum linked with the internationally renowned
Flash Art magazine has been set up 11 years ago. And so it went that Coccia,
director of the Museum and creator of the Contemporary Art teaching project
based on the workshops - where students and artists work side by side – asked
Sviatchenko to join the group of contemporary artists he was enrolling
for the 2005 edition of the workshops. |
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| When he arrived in Trevi, accompanied by his
daughter Alexandra, Sviatchenko began to work with the young students,
developing with them a number of individual and collective works based
on the transformation of their own image - that is the image of their own
faces – using the powerful technique of collage, which he masters
and brings to the complexity of a fully developed language. Sergei and
Alexandra helped the students assemble dozens and dozens of uncannily original
self-portraits, where the students had the chance to express their creative
feelings and throbbing visual fantasy. After the end of the workshop week,
the works that the students had jointly developped with the 16 artists
were exhibited in a caleidoscopic collective show, where almost as many
different techniques and approaches to Contemporary Art could be assessed
and appreciated. Next day were the opening of the exhibition of artists
own works in Trevi Flash Art Museum for contemporary art. |
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| From that exciting experience, Sviatchenko
and Coccia jointly moved on to a further development of the workshop idea:
next year, they will set up in Denmark an even larger teaching program
- in parallel with the one which will still be held in Trevi – that
is meant to be offered to a number of schools of the Viborg Municipality.
Artists from different European countries will join in, and contribute
to establish one more link between all the participating nations in a co-operative
and creative spirit, which is the very genuine spirit of Art. |
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| The entrance to Trevi Flash Art Museum |
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Part of the childrens art works |
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| Part of the childrens art works |
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Sergei Sviatchenko's art work "Playface" |
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| Art work of this articles author Lorenzo
Carrara |
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Art work of this articles author Lorenzo Carrara |
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