ART-PRESENTATION: The Guardian Animals + other invisible beings

Matilde+Laura+Pietro+Luca, Atelier dell’Errore, Southern Pharkus, 2011-14, Courtesy and © Atelier dell’ErroreThe exhibition “The Guardian Animals + other invisible beings”, presents artworks by youngsters from Atelier dell’Errore at the Moretti Fine Art in London. Organized in collaboration with Collezione Maramotti and Max Mara, the exhibition focuses on the ingenuity of minors for their artworks portraying animals illustrated as ancestral figures, living beings disparate of any customary regulation of scientific classification.

By Dimitris Lempesis
Photo: Atelier dell’Errore Archive

The creative imagination of the youngsters from Atelier dell’Errore*, is focused on the representation of animals depicted as ancestral figures, living organisms foreign to any traditional order of scientific classification. In the exhibition “The Guardian Animals + other invisible beings” at  Moretti Fine Art the works from the Atelier are able to strike a dialogue with classical works, showing that some themes and archetypes move across art history without any time-based and geographical constraints. The video installation “Fairy Queen” is displayed in the window, beckons visitors to start an emotional and imaginific journey.  The exhibition follows two different and complementary strands of work in the gallery.  In the first one, striking a dialogue with the 14th Century painting on gold ground “L’Arcangelo Michele” by Andrea de Bartoli, the youngsters for the first time experimented with drawing on a “black ground” in which the works present an entomological interpretation of the classic iconographic tradition around the seven capital sins. The second group of works comprises 10 large drawings on a white background, mostly with irregular shapes, housed in wood cases, which are brought together with the 17th Century tondo “L’Angelo Custode” by Carlo Dolci. The exhibition also includes the book “Atlante di zoologia profetica”, conceived after the exhibition “Uomini come cibo” (Milan, June -September 2015), is a sort of atlas with many plates of the Atelier works.

 * Atelier dell’Errore was established in 2002 on the initiative of visual artist Luca Santiago Mora for children under the care of the Neuropsychiatric Clinic of Reggio Emilia AUSL. Since 2011 it has become a no-profit organisation with the mission of disseminating the Atelier experience in other similar institutions in Italy.

Info: Moretti Fine Art , 2a – 6 Ryder Street, St. James’s, London,  Duration 4/10-2/11/1, Days & Hours: Mon-Fri 10:00-18:00, www.morettigallery.com

Tommaso+Luca+Laura+Pietro, Atelier dell’Errore, Night Avenger Dievours Classmates I get close and they go away and say I stink, 2013-15, Courtesy and © Atelier dell’Errore
Tommaso+Luca+Laura+Pietro, Atelier dell’Errore, Night Avenger Dievours Classmates I get close and they go away and say I stink, 2013-15, Courtesy and © Atelier dell’Errore

 

 

Giulia+Laura, Atelier dell’Errore, Phoenix who at night punishes Davide who beats up children, 2015, Courtesy and © Atelier dell’Errore
Giulia+Laura, Atelier dell’Errore, Phoenix who at night punishes Davide who beats up children, 2015, Courtesy and © Atelier dell’Errore

 

 

Stefano, Atelier dell’Errore, Relative-eating Bone-grinder , 2015, Courtesy and © Atelier dell’Errore
Stefano, Atelier dell’Errore, Relative-eating Bone-grinder , 2015, Courtesy and © Atelier dell’Errore

 

 

Atelier dell’Errore, The Fairy Queen (Video Still), 2015, Courtesy and © Atelier dell’Errore
Atelier dell’Errore, The Fairy Queen (Video Still), 2015, Courtesy and © Atelier dell’Errore

 

 

Giovanni+Ugo, Atelier dell’Errore, Antirogre Bronchiolosaurus, 2014, Courtesy and © Atelier dell’Errore
Giovanni+Ugo, Atelier dell’Errore, Antirogre Bronchiolosaurus, 2014, Courtesy and © Atelier dell’Errore