Dal Filo al Cielo di Viviana Tessitore IT/ EN
Dal Filo al Cielo
Tracciare una linea è tracciare lo scorrere dei giorni, netti, talvolta tortuosi o sincopati, e disegnare un punto è rappresentare un luogo al quale ci sentiamo connessi e al quale conferiamo maggiore risonanza emotiva.
Servirebbero pertanto mani abili nel “dominare” la linea, capaci di coniugare l’atto del disegno a quello della narrazione. Ilaria Margutti ha scelto il filo, quale elemento dominante del suo essere artista: ricerca, poetica e pratica del fare. Non è un accadimento, Ilaria Margutti ha eletto (coraggiosamente) il filo come strumento espressivo, adottando una pratica (inaspettata) come il ricamo, nell’ambito dell’arte d’avanguardia. Il filo, sovente, si sostituisce al pennello e racconta storie.
Con il filo in punta di dita, Ilaria sovverte il normale trascorrere del tempo, lo dilata come le trame dei suoi tessuti, lo tratta con cura, annoda minuti, cotone e parole.
E invita tutti a farlo insieme a lei, in un’educazione al “parlare lento” per sopravvivere al consumo veloce dei nostri messaggi e far fronte alla tragica riduzione del comunicare.
La residenza artistica di Ilaria Margutti, invitata a Santa Maria degli Angeli dalla Cooperativa Fare, ha accompagnato i partecipanti in un percorso che ha avuto il suo inizio alzando gli occhi al cielo, nell’osservazione della volta stellata ed è poi proseguito in una passeggiata guidata tra natura e paesaggio, per annotare i luoghi emotivi nel nostro taccuino interiore. Da queste esperienze è nato un laboratorio e un dialogo intellettuale, guidato da Ilaria e coadiuvato da mani abili provenienti dal mondo del filo e dell’ago.
I partecipanti al workshop hanno realizzato un’opera di stoffa, di trame e di racconti: un’opera d’arte relazionale che ha permesso ai partecipanti di raccontar-si unendo i propri fili colorati. Ogni manualità individuale è stata convogliata in un lavoro collettivo e trasversale a tutte le età, alle identità di genere e a tutte le culture. Per ampliare l’azione artistica, sono stati invitati turisti e passanti a dare il loro contributo alla grande Tela galattica, attraverso un nodo, un punto, un traccia di filo.
Il percorso va dunque inteso come un’esperienza tra arte e scienza da vivere e da attraversare, nella quale, ogni punto, ogni parola e ogni persona è divenuta elemento indispensabile della narrazione collettiva che ne è conseguita.
«Per avere qualche speranza di essere noi stessi, dobbiamo avere molti luoghi dentro di noi». Questo pensiero di J.B.Pontalis, magistralmente interpretato da Vittorio Lingiardi, nel suo lavoro Mindscapes. Psiche nel paesaggio, è depositario di due insegnamenti: la nostra storia e la nostra psiche sono anche una geografia; siamo inseparabili dai nostri luoghi, per amore o per rancore, e il nostro luogo non è mai uno solo.
Ci vogliono, appunto, molti luoghi. Viviana Tessitore
FROM THE WIRE TO THE SKY
There are places where it is necessary to slow down in order to arrive at their full understanding.
If it were possible to connect each of our inner places, from one point to another, we could trace paths and sentimental paths to build a real emotional map, made up of loved and hostile places, turning points, and crossroads of doubt and life choices. Each map would thus be able to graphically convey the experiences of each individual.
Drawing a line is drawing the passing of days, clear, sometimes tortuous or syncopated, and drawing a point is to represent a place to which we feel connected and to which we give greater emotional resonance.
We would therefore need skilled hands in “dominating” the line, capable of combining the act of drawing with that of narration. Ilaria Margutti has chosen the thread as the dominant element of her being an artist: research, poetics and practice of doing. This is not an event, Ilaria Margutti (courageously) chose thread as an expressive tool, adopting an (unexpected) practice such as embroidery, in the context of avant-garde art. The thread often replaces the brush and tells stories.
With the thread at her fingertips, Ilaria subverts the normal passing of time, dilates it like the wefts of her fabrics, treats it with care, knots minutes, cotton and words.
And she invites everyone to do it together with her, in an education in “slow speaking” to survive the fast consumption of our messages and face the tragic reduction in communication.
Ilaria Margutti’s artistic residence, invited to Santa Maria degli Angeli by the Fare Cooperative, accompanied the participants on a journey that began by raising one’s eyes to the sky, observing the starry vault and then continued on a guided walk between nature and landscape, to write down the emotional places in our inner notebook. From these experiences a laboratory and an intellectual dialogue was born, led by Ilaria and assisted by skilled hands from the world of thread and needle.
The workshop participants created a work of fabric, plots and stories: a relational work of art that allowed the participants to tell stories by joining their own colored threads. Each individual manual skill has been channeled into a collective and transversal work for all ages, gender identities and all cultures. To expand the artistic action, tourists and passers-by were invited to make their contribution to the great Galactic Web, through a knot, a point, a trace of thread.
The path should therefore be understood as an experience between art and science to be lived and crossed, in which every point, every word and every person has become an indispensable element of the collective narrative that ensued.
“To have any hope of being ourselves, we must have many places within us.” This thought by J.B. Pontalis, masterfully interpreted by Vittorio Lingiardi, in his work Mindscapes. Psyche in the landscape is the repository of two teachings: our history and our psyche are also a geography; we are inseparable from our places, out of love or resentment, and our place is never just one.
It takes, in fact, many places. Viviana Tessitore
FROM THE WIRE TO THE SKY
At Palazzetto del Capitano del Perdono in S. Maria degli Angeli (PG)
From 29 July to 15 August 2022
Astronomy | Landscape | Laboratories
Artistic residence with
ILARIA MARGUTTI
Artistic Project supported by the City of Assisi – Tourist Office
Cureted by FARE cooperativa sociale
in collaboration with Viviana Tessitore,
Accademia Punto Assisi, CasermArcheologica
StarLight un planetario tra le dita APS, Fondazione POST Perugia, DigiPass Assisi
ILARIA MARGUTTI, (Modena 1971), lives and works in Sansepolcro, where she carries out her artistic activity and that of a teacher of art history. In 1997 he graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence.
He has collaborated with several galleries including: Janinebeangallery Berlin, Wannabeegallery Milano, MLBhomegallery Ferrara, Bontadosi ArtGalleryMontefalco (PG), Galleria Art Forum Bologna, Galleria Gagliardi, San Giminiano (SI).
Since 2007 he has been inserting embroidery in his canvases, a language in which he feels his poetics best represented.
In 2008 his works were finalists in three international awards: Arte Laguna, Arte Mondadori and the Birmingham Embroideres’ Guild Award.
In 2010 he was in the Ivory Coast for the De L’Esprit and L’Eau artistic residency project supported by the Italian Embassy.
From 2011 to 2015, he has curated projects for the dissemination of contemporary art at the Sansepolcro Civic Museum and from 2013 to today, together with Laura Caruso, he has curated the urban regeneration project of CasermArcheologica, a space dedicated to contemporary artistic experimentation in Sansepolcro, promoter of the national network of The State of places.
Main Show – 2010 – OttoMarzo curated by Iginio Materazzi ex church of the Madonna del Duomo Arezzo; 2011 – Leather | Muta curated by Viviana Siviero, Wannabee Gallery, Milan; 2012 – Biennial of Fiber Philadelphia, Philadelphia, USA – Out of the Skin curated by Manuela De Leonardis, Spazio Lavatoio Contumaciale, Rome; 2013 – The body written on the wire curated by Vincenza Tommaselli, Montevergini Gallery, Ortigia (SC); 2017: Esercizi di Vastità, staff at Abilità, Vicenza Fairs; 2019: ContemporaneA Artiste tell their story – curated by Irene Finiguerra, Palazzo Ferrero and Palazzo La Marmora, Biella; Selvatico # 14, museum of sacred plaques in Fusignano (RA), curated by Massimiliano Fabbri; Continuo Hypothesis, Valtopina Lace Museum (PG); In memory of Dove, curated by Ilenia D’Ascoli, CasermArcheologica Sansepolcro (AR); 2021 – Roots and leaves only, Palazzo della Penna (PG), curated by Michele Dantini.
Between 2013 and 2014, his works are exhibited at the Istanbul Contemporary Art Fair, the Bologna Fair and the Verona Fair, represented by the Art Forum gallery in Bologna.
Margutti’s is a journey of introspective and identity investigation. Starting from a pictorial style of expressionist derivation, in 2007 she began to use embroidery as a fundamental element of her research, thus becoming the language in which she feels her poetics best represented. A technique full of symbolic meanings on the origins of the feminine and intensely linked to a search for identity, which has its roots in Greek history.
Singular. Patient, acute, ancient and surprising work. A wait that is construction, which is tacit, silent dynamism. Slow. It is embroidery, a very fine and masterful art that is practiced with unspeakable accuracy, that is an unusual technique in the contemporary world.
But for Ilaria Margutti it is much more, it is a process: constructive, cognitive, educational. An evident laborious creative path that, gentle and refined, slowly builds the figure. A different culture of itself that tests itself in its prodigious manifestations that are never complete except in the final evolution. Educational to the silent passing, to the knowledge of one’s own intimacy, vulnerable and strong, decidedly stubborn, in balance or waiting to be. A work within a work, art in art a boundary that arises as the principle of artistic work and the human journey, representative of weaving. A painter, Ilaria, who savors beauty and conquers the awareness of knowing how to read, composing herself according to one’s own needs: no detail is left to chance, every desire is assembled revealing itself now as an empty, simple path to take, and now as significantly filled with a genuine rediscovery of emotions and pure sensations.
The creation of a masterpiece, a window in which to look out to see the world in a different way, investigating oneself with pride. (Francesca Mazzarelli).