On 7 June, the great “Recycled ad Arte” exhibition will be inaugurated in the spaces of the prestigious Piaggio Museum in Pontedera, an event that celebrates 10 years of projects in the city dedicated to art.
Giampaolo Talani, Ugo Nespolo, Nado Canuti and many others; numerous and prestigious names in contemporary art have participated in the last ten years in a real creative laboratory promoted by the Municipality of Pontedera with the collaboration of the Piaggio Foundation and with the coordination of professors Anna Ferretti and Roberta Giglioli of the XXV Aprile high school.
This year, thanks also to the collaboration with Waste Recycling Spa and its project SCART, the theme of the laboratory is more current than ever: art through recycling. It is significant that the exhibition is inaugurated just before World Environment Day on 5 June.
In addition to having created the works that will be exhibited in the exhibition, the SCART artists Luca Gnizio, Elvira Todaro, Riccardo Turini and Vittoria Lapolla (the latter two from the Vidari Group) have been "shop masters" for the young high school students of the city, who from January to June they took part in the laboratory which taught them art through recycling, leading them to create works and design objects which will also find space in a special section of the exhibition.
«The four young artists who guided this year's experience, with the active and stimulating collaboration of Waste Recycling and its president Maurizio Giani – says the artistic curator of the initiative Ilario Luperini – they conducted the work partly by offering design ideas, partly by facilitating the creativity of the students, partly by letting their imagination run wild as freely as possible. They showed professionalism, intuition, method and pedagogical passion».
The guest of honor of the exhibition is the Beautiful Recycle Garbage dress, an eco-chic manifesto in defense of the environment that Guillermo Mariotto, creative director of Haute Couture at Maison Gattinoni, wanted to create, in tune with the times, through the use mainly of recycled materials. A dress created with eco-compatible, bioethical and biodegradable fabrics, sequins, hardware store scraps and atelier "scraps", renewable resources with high responsible technological innovation.
Art through recycling is a theme that has been developed without interruption from the beginning of the XNUMXth century to today, with a notable increase in the era of "radical design" of the XNUMXs and with successive stages oriented towards the practice of reuse as form of concrete salvation of the world. As is known, at the origin of the ideology of the object or fragment, decontextualized and re-proposed, of the assembly of waste materials, there were elements of criticism of the consumer society and the commodification of all values. The exhibition at the Piaggio Museum, on the other hand, casts the spotlight with irony on awareness of history and cultural stratifications, together with an authentic desire to discover, to excavate, to immerse oneself in the materials, to assemble them without conditioning, preconceptions or prejudices, to to grasp their change of colour, their different thickness, the property of being reduced to a fragment without losing their original character and, at the same time, of becoming a profound source of inspiration.
The exhibition, promoted by Municipality of Pontedera, From Piaggio Foundation and by Waste Recycling Spa with its SCART project, sponsored by Province of Pisa and The Tuscan Regional Authority, will host works created using recycled material by Luca Gnizio, Elvira Todaro and by the Vidari Group of Riccardo Turini and Vittoria Lapolla.
The exhibition, an original and unique exhibition, will be open to the public until June 27th and will open on Saturday June 7th at 18pm.
