ARS ET INDUSTRIA
Series of conferences, exhibitions and workshops
Interventions by specialists in the art and manufacture of textiles,
its history and contemporary developments.
With exhibitions of drawings and artifacts of historical and artistic interest.
Curated by Melanie Zefferino, the "Ars et Industria" cycle is a program of cultural dissemination, exhibition activities and workshops between the visual arts in relation to the textile arts, conceived by looking at both history and the contemporary world as a prelude to the future.
“Ars et Industria reflects the identity and statutory purposes of the Foundation and expresses its mission, summed up in the motto "weaving the future in the present with the weaves of the past".
In this way we have worked to infuse new life into the Textile Museum of Chieri by promoting not only the knowledge of the history, techniques and materials of the traditional textile arts, but also the contemporary production that can arise from it by intertwining with all the arts and the creative industries – increasingly oriented towards the rediscovery of traditions in pursuing the transition greens and the sustainability of processes and work.
In the new millennium, the binomial "art and business" can materialize in a reality such as that of the Chierese Foundation for Textiles and the Textile Museum, which combines permanent exhibitions with artistic research and continuous training - both for adults and of school pupils of all types and levels without forgetting people with disabilities or exempting themselves from the need to start a fruitful dialogue with other similar realities.
For these reasons, "Ars et Industria" is configured as a multifaceted program of unprecedented coinage, aimed at different user groups and intended as a basis for profitable comparison between scholars, students, artists, connoisseurs and novices and potential enthusiasts of the textile arts as expressions of creativity and culture.
PLAN
Saturday, February 20, 2021
CONFERENCE
Welcome greetings: Alexander Sicchiero
Mayor of the City of Chieri
Antonella Giordano, Councilor for Culture
Presentation of the program: The Board of Directors of the Foundation
Interventions:
Vincent German
– Historical archive of the Municipality of Chieri:
“The Chieri textile companies
between memory and documentation".
Marinella Bianco
– Archivist and entrepreneur:
“Discovering the company archive
and estimate it heritage ”.
Exhibition of drawings from the Foundation's historical archive.
Saturday, March 6, 2021
CONFERENCE
“The historic Lenci manufacture.
Artists, seamstresses and felt dolls
in 20th-century Turin".
MELANIE ZEFFERINO
– curator and art historian
With display of Lenci dolls
of the Chieri Textile Museum
(donations 2021)
and from the collection of LORENA CASCINO, Arredantico, Turin.
THE OPIO SMOKER
Lenci doll in felt
1921
Permanent collection
of the Foundation
Saturday, April 24, 2021
CONFERENCE
Au revoir. Presentation of the book resulting from the traveling project of ETTORE FAVINI, artist and teacher of Visual Arts
at the NABA in Milan and
at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bergamo.
International project promoted by CONNECTING CULTURES.
https://www.connectingcultures.it/au-revoir/
Goodbye
Ettore Favini
2019
Saturday, May 16, 2021
OPENING
The new layout of the Textile Museum.
CONFERMENT CEREMONY
of the "Copper Shuttle" Award
to Lisa Fontana
- artist in residence at the Museum (2021-2022).
INAUGURATION
of LISA FONTANA's personal exhibition
“tCopper”
With workshop and presentation of the Artist:
“Textile art: traditional designs and
contemporary reinterpretations”.
LISA FONTANA
Saturday, June 12, 2021
CONFERENCE
Gina Morandini: teacher,
project manager, fashion art historian
and of the costume and fiber artist
(The Textile Arts, 2021)
Presentation of the monograph and the exhibition
edited by ANNA MARIA POGGIOLI –
– President of “Le Arti Tessili APS”
BARBARA GIRARDI
– Coordinator of the “Premio Valcellina Award”
CARMEN ROMEO – Researcher and essayist.
GINA MORANDINI
Saturday, June 26, 2021
CONFERENCE
“La Fil and its archive:
an ever-evolving weaving”
VALENTINA POTTY
– Director of the Historical Archive of Tessitura Fil, Chieri.
17-22 July 2021
CONFERRAL CEREMONY of the Textile Museum's “Rainbow Shuttle” Award
a – LIKU MARIA TAKAHASHI
artist, educator and art theorist.
With the participation of Giovanni Laiolo
and Christian Bruno, President and Councilor with responsibility for culture of the Italian Union for the Blind and Visually Impaired (UICI) – Turin.
Exhibition of works by the Artist and of works carried out in the context of workshops she held at the art school of Setagaya (Tokyo) and at the Textile Museum of Chieri, reproducing a historic clover design with tactile and olfactory paint.
CONFERENCE by the Artist with simultaneous translation from Japanese into Italian by Gabriella Cioni: “The Maris method: art synaesthesia for different abilities”.
PLANTING of a mulberry tree and experiential guided tour of the Botanical Garden
of Textiles by Giulia Perin.
Saturday, September 4, 2021
CONFERENCE
"On the edge of the broom:
an ancient Lucanian textile tradition”.
MARIA SILVESTRI – Writer,
art scholar and curator.
FILM SCREENING
Processing of vegetable tissues in Teana, directed by Roberto Mazzarelli,
music by Cristian Paduano.
Produced by the Municipality of Teana for the promotion of the intangible cultural heritage of Basilicata.
Saturday, September 18, 2021
STUDY DAY ON GUALDO
Moderators: Melanie Zefferino,
Laura Vaschetti and Giovanni Donato
Interventions:
MARCO NICOLA – Curator and owner of the Adamantium diagnostic laboratory:
"Blue in history and gualdo in the Nicola di Aramengo Collection".
GIULIA PERIN - Anthropologist and textile designer : “Gualdo e batik in the contemporary".
ANTONELLO BRUNETTI – Historian and naturalist: "Between Castelnuovo Scrivia and Chieri: and the streets of the gualdo".
With display of natural dyeing materials,
batik
signed by Emina and artefacts from the Nicola di Aramengo Collection.
2-3 October 2021
BANDERA DAY - guest event
Edited by ANNA GHIGO, President of the Friends of Bandera Embroidery Association, which works permanently at the headquarters of the Foundation.
Sabato, 9 ottobre 2021
CONFERENZA
“Industria tessile e sviluppo urbano a Chieri tra Ottocento e primo Novecento”
FILIPPO MORGANTINI
– Storico dell’architettura.
PROIEZIONE DEL FILM DOCUMENTARIO
Il patto della montagna (2017), regia di Manuele Cecconello e Maurizio Pellegrini,
prodotto da Jean Vigo Italia srl e VideoAstolfoSullaLuna srl con contributo del Ministero Beni e Attività Culturali e Turismo (MIBACT) e Film Commission Torino Piemonte.
Intervento di SARA CONFORTI – artista, stilista e ricercatrice moda sostenibile.
VAJRO LINEN
CHIERI
Still from the film THE PACT OF THE MOUNTAIN
Left: Sara Conforti
October 16 - November 20, 2021
EXHIBITION OF PHOTOGRAPHY, VIDEO ART
AND MATERIAL CULTURE
“Kashmir: Conflict and Stitchery”
"Kashmir. Conflict and Needlework"
Adam St. Clair
– Actor, art photographer and educator.
Presentation of the project, undertaken
with research grant from the University of Manchester, UK.
Presentation by Adam St.Clair in English
with simultaneous translation by M. Zefferino.
11-18 December 2021
CONFERRAL CEREMONY of the “Navetta d'oro” Lifetime Achievement Award a
FRANCE PISANI
– artist and performer
INAUGURATION of the personal exhibition "Imagination blue"
Paintings and sculpture-hats
made with blue fabrics
of the weavers founding members.
FRANCA PISANI
Saturday, December 18, 2021
FINISHAGE
of the Franca Pisani exhibition.
CONFERENCE
Francesca Vergnano – entrepreneur
FiDiVi Tessitura Vergnano SpA
“Reweaving a green world: innovation, creativity and industry”.
2021 closing greetings and appointment
at the CHRISTMAS MARKET
on December 19, 2022.
FRANCESCA VERGNANO
