Discovering Arte al Centro 2025, episode 2
Accademia Unidee
The exhibition Not too hard to listen

The students and teachers of the three-year course in Public Art participate in Arte al Centro 2025 with the usual annual exhibition, installed in the spaces of the Universario from 27 June to 20 July. The reference is to Not too hard to listen, the end-of-year exhibition of the courses of the second semester of the first year of the Three-year Course in Public Art - Art for Social Change of the Accademia Unidee. The theoretical-critical and practical reading of artistic interventions in the public sphere, proposed by the course, introduced an analysis of the concept of context, of the forms of participation, of the multiplicity of actors, of contemporary plastic artistic techniques and their semantic scope, assuming a decolonial and post-human perspective. Accompanied by teachers Elena Mazzi and Rebecca De Marchi, the students developed their works through a critical reflection in accordance with their individual artistic research and the themes that attracted their attention. Thanks to the course led by Andrea Masu, students had the opportunity to learn how to work with multimedia arts and to frame their work in the contemporary debate on digital media. Irony, nostalgia, sound in public space, identity, loss and collaboration are the main themes on which students focused their attention and to which the exhibited works are dedicated.
The opening of the exhibition will be held at 2 pm, followed by HYDRO: Metamorsuoni (curated by Angelica Troncone), while at 5 pm there will be a HYDRO: talk with Enrico Ascoli, entitled Soundscapes; at 6 pm the activities will end with Deep Listening Practices, a workshop curated by Angelica Troncone.

Courses:
Decoration 1 – Art and Environment, led by Elena Mazzi and Rebecca De Marchi
Digital Media for Visual Arts, led by Andrea Masu

Students and works:
Angelica Troncone, Metamorsuoni (site-specific installation)
Dalia Jacobs, The Thread Between Us (immersive installation)
Justine Sicolo, Impotenza (performance, installation)
Kimia Shamsi, ۶۰ (4K video, 7', A5 fanzine)
Fabio Pasquali, In the urban jungle (AI video, 19')
Fabio Pasquali, The faboulous show (parody video, 4'30")

OPEN STUDIO
Chiara Guillet
Gabriel Croso

Four projects

The students and teachers of the three-year course in Sustainable Fashion participate in Arte al Centro 2025 with four projects that represent the outcome of the strategic vision of the Course, that is, putting sustainability at the center of every discipline and rediscovering the inseparable link between art and fashion, to reach new expressions in a fashion system that in order to survive will have to be based on innovation, circularity, diversity, inclusion, biodiversity, respect for the environment, creation of shared value, relationships with the community. The interaction between fashion and art is fundamental to learning to design and produce with the strategies of the four Rs (rethink, reduce, reuse, recycle), stimulating conscious consumption.

1) TERTIUM DATUR

The first-year students organize an atelier that will take place throughout the day on June 28, during which they will exhibit and work on the costumes of the Tertium Datur show created by the Civica Scuola di Musica Claudio Abbado in Milan. The show, which will have its first performance in Osaka 2025 in July and will then be repeated in the Sala della Asse of the Castello Sforzesco in Milan in September, is an original work in three acts that starts from a text by Leonardo da Vinci and arrives at the Terzo Paradiso by Michelangelo Pistoletto. The first-year students (Maria Eduarda Belloni Flores, Leonardo Alves Mendes Da Silva, Hitoe Nakamura, Martina Salvemini, Annarita Steni, Michela Voto, Michele Torlaschi and Clarissa Leone) designed the costumes for the singers and actors of the show as part of the Fashion Design course of Professor Nelly Hoffmann and the Modeling course of Professor Renzo Catoni. The clothes were made with circular fabrics donated by the company Pratrivero, which allowed them to experiment with new shapes and new uses for innovative and sustainable materials.

2) THE TEXTILE JEWEL

The second-year students exhibit the project created as part of the Jewellery Design course by Professor Lucilla Giovanninetti and entitled The textile jewel: processing of textile waste into wearable plastic works, which refer to images of the past and to one's own autobiography. Initially, jewels and works of art in which the choice of textile material is central were examined (Michelangelo Pistoletto, Karine N'guyen, Jeffrey Gibson, Carla Tolomeo, Maria Lai, Louise Bougeois, Ema Shin, Sheila Kruger, etc.), delving into the thematic and conceptual evolution of Marion Baruch. The projects presented by the students (Melek Bacha, Alvaro Guimarães Werner, Filippo Panico, Sara Rigoni, Natalia Terezova) therefore only involve the use of textile material discarded from the processes (fabrics and yarns), without the intervention of different elements, except in the structural components.

3) THE SUSTAINABILITY OF TAILORMADE

The third-year students will exhibit a highly topical project, namely a series of high-quality tailor-made garments that form the basis of a person's sustainable wardrobe and that, thanks to the contribution of Styling, can transform and take on new visions and propose new trends as the cornerstones of a creativity that combines tradition and avant-garde. The students (Francesca Acquadro, Paula Arbach, Martina Bono, Francesca Del Pizzo, Melina Uchoa), as part of the Modeling course of Professor Renzo Catoni, have developed all the phases of the creation of a tailored garment, using recycled fabrics donated by the stylist Ylenia Mangano (Myanamì).

4) STAGE CLOTHES FOR LITTLE ACTORS

Two students (Martina Bono and Anastasia Raccuglia) made the stage costumes for five children from the Open School of Terzo Paradiso of Cittadellarte for the performance by the Greek artist Despina Charitonidi within the Ecosystems as Living Communities exhibition that will take place on June 28.