06:00 PM – 07:30 PM
Normal Admission Ticket: $15 Associates & College students: Free of charge
Be a part of us for the US premiere of 3 just lately commissioned documentaries exploring the life of Anna Mahler and Sol LeWitt, as properly as the artist residency application their perform has motivated in Spoleto, Italy, at the Mahler & LeWitt Studios.
Launched by CIMA director Nicola Lucchi, company are also invited to go to the current CIMA exhibition ‘Bruno Munari: The Little one In just’.
Light refreshments will be served!
Anna Mahler: Notes on Stone (23mins), narrated by her daughter Marina Mahler, is the very first documentary to carefully take into account the life and function of stone sculptor Anna Mahler, daughter of Gustav and Alma. Ahead of achieving Spoleto, where she would stay and operate from the late 1960s, the movie evokes the distinctive cultural milieu in which she grew up – between her mentors have been Oskar Kokoshka and Giorgio de Chirico. The movie then follows Anna from war torn Vienna, to London and Los Angeles, where by she taught at UCLA and designed her most monumental get the job done ‘The Tower of Masks’.
About Sol (23 minutes) is an personal portrait of Sol LeWitt, documenting his life and work with a individual emphasis on the time he put in in Spoleto. It centers on an job interview with his spouse Carol, who shares a string of intimate memories starting with their departure from New York, to a new family everyday living in Spoleto. It explores Sol’s operate via his friendships with the artists and people of the city. Discussions with Adam Weinberg (Director, Whitney Museum of American Artwork) and Marco Tonelli (Director, Palazzo Collicola Arti Visive) describe the relevance of the fantastic Italian painters to LeWitt’s practice – Giotto, Piero della Francesca, frà Filippo Lippi – artists who at initially sight appear distant from conceptual art and minimalism.
Mahler & LeWitt Studios (12 mins) is a shorter movie with Dude Robertson (curator and founding director, with Eva LeWitt) telling the tale of the plan of residencies and exclusive jobs which consider position every single yr, for 5 months, all over the former studios of Anna Mahler and Sol LeWitt in Spoleto. The program welcomes and offers alternatives for curators, writers and artists of all disciplines, from throughout the environment. In Spoleto they discover an perfect room to mirror and create new operate.
The production of the documentary movies stems from the wish of Maria Teresa Venturini Fendi, President of the Carla Fendi Foundation, to make a contribution to the important action of the Mahler & LeWitt Studios. The films are supposed to give context to the lives and get the job done of Anna Mahler and Sol LeWitt in Spoleto, sharing their stories with new audiences, and to celebrate the sizeable options, presented in their names, to a new era of artists, writers and curators.
The Carla Fendi Basis encourages and makes artistic gatherings, restorations, social projects, science and analysis. Given that forming in 2007, the Basis has collaborated with the Festival dei Thanks Mondi, Spoleto, turning out to be its Main Associate in 2012. Among its assignments in Spoleto, the Basis organises the annual Premio Carla Fendi – in 2021 Marina Mahler and Carol LeWitt were recipients of the prize for their providers to culture in Spoleto. They donated their prize money to the Mahler & LeWitt Studios and it will fund a sequence of cultural collaborations between the Carla Fendi Basis and the studios. fondazionecarlafendi.it
Gabriele Gianni (b.1978) is an Italian director and artist. For the Carla Fendi Foundation he has also designed: A Sense of Speculate, about the existence of the British scientist Stephen Hawking, and Ecce Robot, on synthetic intelligence, robotics, and the imagining of British scientist Alan Turing. He is co-director, with Davide Barletti, of Nothing at all Wrong, about the search for the this means of Time by the stories and eyes of three hundred kids through the yr of the pandemic. The film was screened at Biografilm 22, and at Annecy Cinéma Italien. In 2022 he made Fact? an augmented reality installation situated in the renaissance church of Santa Maria della Manna d’Oro in Spoleto, Italy. Generated by Carla Fendi Foundation, it investigates illusory space in consciousness. gabrielegianni.com
General public Programming at CIMA is built attainable with the generous guidance of Tiro a Segno Foundation.
The publish ‘Anna Mahler: Notes on Stone’ ‘About Sol’ ‘Mahler & LeWitt Studios’: a few documentaries, a U.S. premiere appeared 1st on Heart for Italian Modern day Art.
