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How to become a cloud. La III B and Michele Tocca

IUNO at Festival de Cabanes, Villa Medici, Rome 2023

IUNO is pleased to present the final presentation of IUNO Studio's annual workshops at the Festival des Cabanes at Villa Medici, Rome.

For IUNO Studio, Michele Tocca has been invited to conduct a workshop with third-graders from the Istituto Comprensivo Dante Alighieri in Rome. Starting with the observation of atmospheric phenomena, an indispensable component of Michele Tocca's artistic research, children were introduced to the practice of painting and representation through a series of exercises meant to stimulate their perceptual and imaginative skills. The workshop was conceived to encourage the development of a new mode of viewing starting with the observation of the sky and clouds, considered no longer just as a "background." 
Through images, stories, legends, and live observation, clouds became a tool through which to begin perceiving the multiple potentialities of the act of seeing and understanding the creative gesture as an expression of ones own gaze.

Chiara Camoni. Gorge, Bloom, Foliage. World Above, World Below. And Small Creatures

IUNO, Rome, April-June 2022

Invited by Chiara Camoni , I planned a walk as an interpretive tool for Chiara’s plates presented during a dinner at IUNO. The walk around IUNO’s neighbourhood in Prati, the district on the northern side of the River Tevere, touched on themes of the wild, the seen and seemed, the inside and the outside, the above and below, departing from the tomb of Hadrian, the Phrygianum and the cult of Cybeles, such relics as the Patera of Parabiago.

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Creazione di rituali

Mun ange arte contemporanea,Torino, September 6-8 2021

A three-day seminar with sociologist Gian Antonio Gilli about personal rituals, those totally private rituals created and activated by single individuals (individuals in defective conditions; mistics; ascetics) as opposed to social and collective rituals (i.e. anthopological ones). Themes were: Morphology of rituals; Levels of Symbolization; Rituals and the issue of time. The seminar was held at the Galleria Guido Costa Projects, Turin. main partner of the project, with a day-long excursion to the sculptorally richest wings of the Cimitero Monumentale on the subjects of Posture as Ritual .

Invited artists: Luca Bertolo, Chiara Camoni, Manuele Cerutti, Maria Claudia Farina, Francesca Ferreri, Nicola Genovese, Tom Johnson, Fabrizio Prevedello, Laura Pugno, Alessandro Quaranta, Andrea Respino, Alessandra Spranzi, Michele Tocca, Agata Torelli, Silvia Vendramel.

https://www.munange.it/SEMINARI-1

Dal tramonto all’arte

curated by Saverio Verini, CaLibro Festival, Città di Castello 2021

Words by Fairfield Porter and Jean Hélion I chose for Città di Castello’s book festival

Cum aria, cum arguzia

Pesce Khete / Michele Tocca, Ostia Lido, January 2019

Suite of collaborative drawings made with Pesce Khete (partly on “Piccolo Giotto Online”, March 13 2019).