The Blind Automatic Drawing Project Academic Year 2026
The workshop on “blind and automatic drawing” is one of the events of the Sculpture Course curated by Prof. Alessandra Maria Porfidia. The practice of Blind Drawing is structured around specific references in the various working sessions, which characterise its personal methodological value, developed by the artist Christoph Maria Loos.
The experience was brought to the Academies of Brera, Florence and Rome by Porfidia and Loos. This is a research project, carried out jointly, which has yielded very significant results. This year, Professor Christoph Maria Loos will be at ABAROMA with the status of Visiting Professor to explore this strategic creative process, which is based on the voluntary suspension of sight and the centrality of inner vision.
In the specific seminar, Loos named the practice “Poor Metaphysics”.
The process aims to destabilise traditional ways of making art in order to open up the subject to new forms of perception and image generation. Structured in an intensive format, the workshop introduces students to an experiential approach that combines practical exercises and theoretical reflection on perception, image creation and metamorphosis. In the past, the contribution has already been enriched by educational opportunities for exchange and reflection with other lecturers.
This invitation is being renewed again this year, as it makes a valuable contribution to the seminar for the analytical development of the work, with key theoretical insights into creative practice. In particular, the programme focuses on fundamental concepts of artistic practice such as intuition, imagination and inspiration, broadening the aesthetic frame of reference.
Through opportunities for discussion and brainstorming, students develop individual outcomes that are subsequently addressed through an analytical process of interpretation and selection. The archive documentation and the most significant drawings should be presented in a future exhibition and compiled in a publication, conceived as a critical and visual account of the process undertaken.