Sunday 9 April 22 Amaci museums open their doors for the third Educational Day, a day of free activities – organized by the Educational Departments of the associated Museums and promoted by the Association of Italian Contemporary Art Museums with the support of Bnl Gruppo BNP Paribas – entirely dedicated to bringing the contemporary art public and families closer to the museum.
For this third edition, the directors of the museums of the Amaci network have decided to entrustartist Matteo Rubbi the creation of an unpublished project, especially for the initiative.
Le Fantastic Islands it is “an unexpected tour of the world plowing the seas, exploring islands, imagining new cultures”. The project is developed in two different but connected moments: the first consists of a series of workshops, dedicated to children in the fourth and fifth year of primary school and in the first and second year of lower secondary school. The workshops will take place from 3 to 7 April 2017 on the occasion of the fourth edition of the Festival of Creative Culture, conceived by Abi – the Italian Banking Association and joined by BNL, Main Partner of the Educational Day, with the collaboration of Amaci.
Through a video tutorial the participants will be invited and stimulated by Matteo Rubbi a imagine your own island, to trace its shape and boundaries, depicting its morphology, climate, biodiversity and giving it a name, fruit of the imagination and creativity of each participant. The islands, rethought as a whole and in their mutual relationship, will form the basis for the creation of an archipelago-class: a unique and unrepeatable system. The set of archipelagos will create a new and unpublished "map of the world", which will be made available to the museum public during the Educational Day.
On Sunday 9th April adults, children and families will be invited to build and shape the fantastic islands conceived by the students, trying to faithfully reproduce the shape, the colours, the characteristic angles and the most representative animals: the islands created during the workshops will therefore become both a trace and an instruction for the three-dimensional creation of the islands which will be molded and modeled with plasticine colourful, made available to the public. Adults and children will not only become active protagonists of the island construction process, but also interpreters of the creative will of the creators.
The Fantastic Islands invites the public to a reflection on the nature of the island, which by its very definition appears to be a distinct entity from the others, separated from the sea and always different. The morphology of its territory is unrepeatable, as are its buildings and inhabitants. Islands, however, often constitute an archipelago, a limited set in space which, unlike what the definition of island suggests, opens the way to a possibility of relationship, comparison, dialogue and closeness, not only physical, but often also sharing common characteristics. This same interaction, symbolically represented through the system of islands, can also be rethought in reference to a group of people, of young people called to imagine something together, to a group of visitors who take part in a project, but also to the relationship between museums and their audiences.
The Educational Day therefore puts the focus back the educational function of museums, in particular of contemporary art, and their essential link with the territory to which they refer, reaffirming that they are not aseptic containers of objects, but living, open, inclusive places that have an important social responsibility towards their communities of membership. Museums are, and can increasingly become, centers of lifelong learning, places of exchange and growth, laboratories for the development of critical thinking, educational platforms for social inclusion and cultural integration.
And the Educational Day serves to reaffirm that in order to be able to exercise this fundamental social function, which is always an integral part of their institutional mission and of their cultural project, museums must know how to place themselves in an open, listening position towards their communities and their public, even potential, constantly questioning their role and always finding new ways to interact effectively with current events, increasingly complex and dynamic. In this direction, contemporary art museums by their very nature can play an important social role, and they have a duty to do so, offering themselves as a testing ground for new forms of cultural citizenship, promoting and supporting social cohesion and territorial affiliations, making their public engine of innovative processes, where people become protagonists of the creation and diffusion of a new way of thinking, living and spreading culture.
All activities organized on the occasion of the Educational Day are free. The third edition of the Educational Day promoted by Amaci is organized with the support of MiBACT - Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism, Directorate General for Contemporary Art and Architecture and Urban Peripheries and Directorate General for Education and Research and with the patronage of the Representation in Italy by the European Commission, the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism, the Conference of Regions and Autonomous Provinces, UPI - Union of Italian Provinces, Anci - National Association of Italian Municipalities and ICOM Italy.
AMACI MUSEUMS PARTICIPATING IN THE EDUCATIONAL DAY AND ACTIVITY TIMES
Castel Sant'Elmo, Campania museum center (Naples) - 10.00-13.00
Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art (Rivoli – Turin) – 15.00pm-1800pm
Luigi Pecci Center for Contemporary Art, Prato – 12.00-19.00
Donnaregina Foundation for Contemporary Arts | Madre · Donnaregina museum of contemporary art, Naples –
h 10.30-13.00
Civic Museums Foundation of Venice – Ca' Pesaro, International Gallery of Modern Art – 11.00-13.00
Museion Foundation. Museum of modern and contemporary art, Bolzano – 15.00pm-18.00pm
Turin Museums Foundation - GAM - Civic Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art of Turin - 10.30-12.30; 14.30-16.30
Civic Gallery of Modena – from 15.00 pm
National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rome – 10-30-13.00; 15.00-18.00
GAMeC – Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art of Bergamo – 15.00pm-18.00pm
Bologna Museums Institution | MAMbo – Museum of Modern Art of Bologna – 15.00pm-18.00pm
Kunst Meran / Merano Arte (Merano – Bolzano) – 15.00pm-18.00pm
MA*GA – Silvio Zanella Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art Foundation (Gallarate – Varese) –
h 15.00-18.00
MAN_Provincial Art Museum of Nuoro – 10.30-12.30
Mart – Museum of modern and contemporary art of Trento and Rovereto – 15.00pm-18.00pm
MAXXI – National Museum of XXI Century Arts, Rome – 16.00-18.00 pm
Museo del Novecento, Milan – 10.30-12.30; 15.30-17.30
Marino Marini Museum, Florence – 15.30pm-18.30pm
MUSMA – Museum of Contemporary Sculpture Matera – 11.00-13.00; 17.00-19.00
PAC Contemporary Art Pavilion, Milan – 15.00pm-17.30pm
Palazzo Fabroni – Contemporary Visual Arts, Municipality of Pistoia – 15.30-17.30 pm
Capitoline Superintendency for Cultural Heritage MACRO - Museum of Contemporary Art Rome - 11.00-13.00
