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Poca Notte. Readings
On the occasion of the exhibition Michele Tocca. Poca Notte, on Thursday, June 20, 2024 from 6:30 to 8 pm, we will host in the gallery in via Alessandro Volta 34 a talk with readings about the end of the night and the early hours of the day.
Readings include: Philip Larkin, Alice Oswald, Giovanni Pascoli, Alice Munro…
How to become a cloud.
La III B and Michele Tocca
IUNO at Festival de Cabanes, Villa Medici, Rome 2023
Installation view of students’ works in the cabane by Atelier Poem, La timidity des cimes.
Cielo intero di Roma, 2023. Collaborative piece, pupils from III B and Michele Tocca
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.
L’Italia dipinta.
Lecture with Professor Anna Ottani Cavina
GAM, Turin, June 22 2023
Lecture by Professor Anna Ottani Cavina organized within Michele Tocca. Repoussoir, exh. curated by Elena Volpato, GAM , Turin.
Roma, a portrait.
Talk. Paesaggi e vedute
Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, May 2023
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.
For more and to download the text, visit : https://www.iunoiuno.it/blogs/news/chiara-camoni-forra-fiorame-fogliame-mondo-di-sopra-mondo-di-sotto-e-piccole-creature
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.
Dal tramonto all’arte
curated by Saverio Verini, CaLibro Festival, Città di Castello 2021
Photo: Andrea Moni
Photo: Andrea Moni
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).