Countdown to the grand opening of Carrara Open Studies 2024 scheduled for Friday 7 June Piazza Duomo starting from 6.30pm. After the speech of the organizers and greetings from the institutions, with the artworker Marco Cirillo Pedri and the artist Gaia Pivaccurator of “Pro-Pòlis” – the exhibition project that will be visible in the commercial establishments of Carrara during the two days of 8 and 9 June – we will get to the heart of the spirit of the event, talking about art, culture and current affairs. The evening will be opened from talk “Art and craftsmanship between symbols, work, wealth and poverty” which, starting from a historical, political and cultural perspective, intends to create a space for reflection and sharing with the city of Carrara on issues that directly concern it. Flavio Del Santo, researcher in physics at the University of Genoa, will talk about the use of symbols in the history of philosophy, the fact that this process of attribution of meanings is anything but neutral and how scientific dissemination has too often made them an instrument of measurement, stigmatization and, in some cases, social containment. Del Santo will draw particular attention to the concept of symbolic violence in the thought of sociologist Pierre Bourdieu, and on the subsequent development of ideas in thought in the writings of the contemporary philosopher Geoffrey de Lagasnerie. An exhibition itinerary to become aware that symbols, both in art and in science, inevitably lead us into a vortex of projections and reproductions which finds in their very expression a plural answer to a collective question, an answer which cannot help but consider the political dimension that produces it.
The general secretary of the CGIL of Massa Carrara will talk about artisanal work and social recognition Nicola Del Vecchio and with the artist and craftsman Maria Bressan, which will interweave the stories of their respective personal and political experiences in the world of art and craftsmanship, providing us with “lenses” through which to look at the sector of artistic production, to know it, talk about it and conceive it in its social entity, which embraces the 30 percent of the Carrara population. A dimension that will be commented on with the current mayor of Carrara, Serena Arrighi. Closing the evening will be the group of Amen Break with a sort of extemporaneous musical composition that will move on grooves belonging to drum and bass, house, afrobeat and hip-hop.
