Abdoulaye Konaté and Luca Trevisani are the artists chosen to illustrate the relationship between art and science, a line of investigation to which the Golinelli Foundation has been dedicating exhibitions for years that bring the results of the most recent scientific research into dialogue with contemporary works of art.
Arte Fiera with the 360° virtual reality of the new Golinelli Arts and Sciences Center
At the Exhibition Center (pavilion 25) the Golinelli Foundation is present with an exhibition space of 32 square meters to present the Golinelli Arts and Sciences Center and the exhibition "UNPREDICTABLE, being ready for the future without knowing what it will be like". Inside the stand you can preview – in an immersive virtual reality system created by Vitruvio Virtual Museum for the HTC Vive viewer – the new Arts and Sciences Center. Wearing a virtual reality viewer, the visitor will be able to see the space and move freely inside (without a predetermined direction), thanks to two manual controls: they will be able to see the exteriors, the interiors and they will be able to go up to the terraces. The viewing angle is 360°: the viewer is always immersed in the experience. Saturday 28 January at 16.15 in the Talk area, meeting with Mario Cucinella entitled "Architecture, arts and sciences" to tell the birth of the Arts and Sciences Center. With Marino Golinelli, founder and honorary president of the Golinelli Foundation, Antonio Danieli, director of the Golinelli Foundation, the artist Luca Trevisani and the curators of the Golinelli Foundation exhibitions, Giovanni Carrada (scientific part) and Cristiana Perrella (artistic part).
The stand will also host a new educational project for schools entrusted to the artist Luca Trevisani (Verona, 1979. Lives in Berlin) whose work will be on view.
Opificio Golinelli with the focus on Abdoulaye Konaté and the didactic laboratory of Luca Trevisani
At Opificio Golinelli (via Paolo Nanni Costa, 14) there will be an exhibition of works by African artists from the collection of Marino and Paola Golinelli including Cameron Platter, Gonçalo Mabunda, Ouattara Watts, Pascale Marthine Tayou. As part of the itinerary among the works - which reflects one of the main lines of research of the collection, that of art created outside the Western scene - a focus is proposed on the African artist Abdoulaye Konaté (Dirè, Mali, 1953), of which a large selection of works is presented. Director of the Conservatoire des Arts et Métiers Multimedia in Bamako, Konaté is one of the most recognized artists on the continent. Typical of his style are the large-format "tapestries" in which hundreds of strips of fabric, mainly cotton (one of the fundamental crops of Mali), cascade down and combine in fascinating chromatic effects. Initially oriented towards abstraction, his research then also opened up in parallel with references to reality and the social world, linking itself to geopolitical current events, in particular the civil war in Mali between government forces, Tuareg independence activists and Islamist rebels. Meeting with the artist: "Abdoulaye Konaté: art in Africa that opposes fundamentalism", Saturday 28 January at 19 pm. The appointment, hosted by Cristiana Perrella, will focus on Konaté's work and on the political situation in Mali.
At Opificio Golinelli there are workshops, readings and interactive activities between art and science for families (Sunday 29 January, 16-19pm, free admission by reservation): from the construction of prototypes of ideal cities to the printing of photographs with ancient methods; from the creation of drawings with the help of "robotic artists" to the creation of works of art using the DNA analysis technique. Among the novelties, also a laboratory conceived by Luca Trevisani entitled "Matter is transformed. It changes colour, consistency, smell, weight, shape, it changes continuously until it becomes extinct”. The activity will lead the participants to the creation of vegetable sculptures which will be subjected to physical-chemical treatments which will modify their characteristics. At the end, a kit will be delivered which allows you to follow the transformations over time (Sunday 29 January, 17 and 18.30 pm).
