CARRARA – One of the city’s most heartfelt demonstrations finally gets underway. Aps Oltre is pleased to invite everyone to the inauguration of Carrara Studi Aperti 2024 scheduled for Friday 7 June in Piazza Duomo starting from 6.30 pm. After the intervention of the organizers and the greetings of the institutions, with the artworker Marco Cirillo Pedri and the artist Gaia Pivac, curator of “Pro-Pòlis” – the exhibition project that will be visible in the commercial establishments of Carrara during the two days of the 8 and 9 June – we will get to the heart of the spirit of the event, talking about art, culture and current events.
The evening will be opened by the 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 you; Flavio Del Santo, physics researcher at the University of Genoa, will talk to us about the use of symbols in the history of philosophy, about the fact that this process of attribution of meanings is anything but neutral and about how scientific dissemination has made too much of it often an instrument of measurement, stigmatization and, in some cases, social containment. Del Santo will draw attention in particular to the concept of symbolic violence in the thought of the sociologist Pierre Bourdieu, and to 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.
Instead, we will talk about artisanal work and social recognition with the general secretary of the CGIL of Massa-Carrara Nicola Del Vecchio and with the artist and artisan Maria Bressan, who will intertwine 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 artistic production sector, to know it, talk about it and conceive it in its social entity, which embraces 30% of the Carrara population. A dimension that we will have the opportunity to comment on with the current mayor of Carrara, Serena Arrighi. Closing the evening will be the Amen Break group with a sort of extemporaneous musical composition in which they will move on grooves belonging to drum and bass, house, afrobeat and hip-hop.
