The Academy of Fine Arts in Rome and the Municipality of Vitorchiano are continuing the project of art itineraries in nature, and on Monday 13 May, the International Peperino Sculpture Symposium will begin in Vitorchiano.
The sculptural sketches created and exhibited at the Auditorium of the former Church of Sant’Agnese from 3 May to 30 June 2024 will take shape during the sculpture symposium from 13 to 18 May 2024, sculpted by the students of the School of Sculpture of the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome.
It will therefore be possible to observe the creation of the sculptural works live, publicly and directly on site at Largo Padre Ettore Salimbeni Vitorchiano (VT), under the gaze of the Moai. As in the previous 2023 edition, the students will be guided by the sculptor and professor Oriana Impei, curator of the workshop, and for this edition by the two invited guests: Guglielmo Vecchietti Massacci and Isabel Permanyer.
The initiative aims to promote the landscape through the art of sculpture and the local volcanic stone, peperino. The stone blocks will be donated by the Peperino Extraction Centre and the Santafiora Company. In addition to the contemporary art exhibition, the event also includes a workshop on sculpture and a conference and exhibition with an educational focus, illustrated by the two distinguished guests invited:
Guglielmo Vecchietti Massacci was born in Jesi (An) in 1946.
He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna in 1970/71, where he taught Sculpture Techniques from 1977 until 2012. He lived and worked for forty years in the church of San Colombano (Via Parigi 3, Bologna), a magical place open to the public, where for years he hosted musicians, poets and artists, organising concerts, poetry readings, theatre and cultural events, which he had to leave in 2005.
He currently lives in the Marche region, on the first hill of Senigallia, where he has renovated an old farmhouse with a sculpture garden among the olive trees, turning it into a cultural centre: www.lacasadegliulivi.eu
His exhibition activity is rich and significant, with large works in bronze, iron, wood and marble, and solo exhibitions lasting a year, held in the parks and streets of cities: since 1970 in Bologna and Rome and in various parts of the world.
Isabel Permanyer was born in Barcelona (Spain) in 1965.
She has lived and worked in Italy since 1997, first in Bologna (Church of San Colombano) and since 2005 in the Marche region, on the first hill of Senigallia. She lives in the Casa degli Ulivi, a house-workshop with a sculpture garden, together with the sculptor Guglielmo Vecchietti Massacci, where workshops, home concerts, seminars and artistic workshops are organised, with the possibility of accommodation. From 2012 to 2015, the Casa degli Ulivi was the regional headquarters of the International Art & Psychology Association. The site can be visited on the web: www.lacasadegliulivi.eu www.facebook.com/isabel.permanyer artists’ retreat “La Casa degli ulivi”.
Her academic training began with a degree in Fine Arts from the Faculty of Fine Arts S. Jordi in Barcelona (from 1983 to 1988). Two-year Restoration Specialisation Course. This was followed by a Research Doctorate in the Department of Drawing of the same Faculty. Professor Manuel Ruiz-Ortega, Two-year course 1989/91.
He graduated in Sculpture from the “Escola d’Arts i Oficis” Diputació de Barcelona (1992 to 1997). He obtained the teaching qualification certificate: “Certificat d’Aptitud pegagògica” Institute of Educational Sciences and two training cycles. Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (two-year course 1988/91). The guest artists will exhibit their works in the Municipal Tower of the Municipality of Vitorchiano from 13 May, with the inauguration at 6:00 pm, until 15 May. The sculptural sketches of the sculpture students will be exhibited from 3 May in the Auditorium of the former Church of Sant’Agnese.
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