RADIS PRESENTA UN’ARCA PER LE STELLE
A new date for Radis, the public art project of the Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT, which celebrates its twenty-fifth anniversary this year: on Saturday 22 March from 15.00 and Sunday 23 March from 10.00, Un’Arca per le Stelle (An Ark for the Stars), the collective work created by the students who took part in the educational activities curated by Feliz with the La Scatola Gialla association as part of the educational project linked to Radis.
The day will also be an opportunity to present the documentary on the first edition of the project, produced by Cucù Milano and TIWI, which will be broadcast by Sky Arte on Tuesday 25 March 2025.
The Radis project – from the Piedmontese radis (root) – was created with the aim of enriching the Piedmontese territory with a heritage of public works of art that are made available to the community, in dialogue with educational programmes, public meetings and exhibition projects that return part of the collection of the Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT to the community. The first edition, curated by Marta Papini and realised in collaboration with the Fondazione CRC, culminated last October with the inauguration in the Chiot Rosa clearing of the site-specific work le masche by the artist Giulia Cenci; the work consists of a series of aluminium sculptures made by the artist from casts of birch trees in the clearing, combined with elements typical of her sculptural language.
The commissioning of Giulia Cenci’s work at Chiot Rosa was accompanied by an educational programme for local schools, curated by Feliz in collaboration with the association La Scatola Gialla. The first cycle of meetings, entitled L’Attesa (Waiting), involved thirteen primary school classes from the Borgo San Dalmazzo and Demonte Comprehensive Institutes in June 2024, who worked in the classroom to discover public art and in Chiot Rosa to imagine their own work at the same time as the artist conceived hers. In the autumn, the project continued with the activities of Costruire i sensi (Building Sensories), which also involved secondary schools, with a total of 38 classes, or 694 students, involved in a first-person confrontation with the work installed at Chiot Rosa, with Giulia Cenci’s language and research. The result of the workshops is L’arca delle stelle (The Ark of the Stars), a collective work whose return is a further opportunity to involve families and the local area in the themes of public art, and an invitation to visit Chiot Rosa to discover the work of public art that has inspired children and young people.
On Saturday 22nd March, the day will begin at 15.00 at the Centro della Comunità (former bowling alley) in Rittana, with institutional greetings by Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, President of the Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT, and Mauro Gola, President of the Fondazione CRC; followed by a presentation of the schools’ activities and the final project by Elena Valsania and Christian Grappiolo of Feliz; this will be followed by a talk by Marta Papini, curator of Radis, and the presentation of the documentary film dedicated to the first edition of the project. The day will end with a visit to the students’ work, which will also be open to the public on Sunday 23rd March from 10am to 6pm.
Admission free of charge – reservation available HERE