Nella mostra Meccaniche prodigiose gli studenti di design dell'ECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne collaborano con i maestri artigiani della località svizzera di Sainte-Croix per creare affascinanti installazioni meccaniche
Artigiano al lavoro ©ECAL Jasmine Deporta
• I risultati di una fruttuosa collaborazione tra gli studenti di design dell'ECAL e gli artigiani della località svizzera di Sainte-Croix
• Cinque installazioni interattive basate sul know-how meccanico illustrano le diverse competenze locali recentemente riconosciute dall'UNESCO come patrimonio culturale immateriale dell'umanità
• Un'esperienza coinvolgente in cui i visitatori possono azionare da soli gli automi in mostra
Ad aprile i visitatori di Homo Faber Event 2022 potranno immergersi nella mostra Meccaniche Prodigiose, che presenta i frutti di un'intensa collaborazione tra l’Association Mec-Art (Pour la Mécanique d'Art) e l'ECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne.
Da diversi anni il Master of Advanced Studies in Design for Luxury & Craftsmanship dell'ECAL permette ai suoi studenti di lavorare in stretta collaborazione con maison prestigiose al fine di approfondire la loro formazione in settori di eccellenza come l'alta orologeria, la tavola, la moda, la gastronomia e i mestieri d'arte, e apprendere tecniche particolari nell’impiego di materiali nobili.
La nuova partnership dell'università con l’Association Mec-Art ha dato agli studenti l'opportunità di lavorare a fianco degli artigiani di Sainte-Croix, la cittadina nel Giura franco-svizzero che ospita le specializzazioni coinvolte nella creazione della meccanica d'arte. È qui, infatti, che i maestri perpetuano le loro antiche competenze nelle arti meccaniche, tra cui i carillon e gli automi - tradizioni che l’UNESCO ha recentemente aggiunto alla Lista del patrimonio culturale immateriale dell'umanità.
Lo straordinario progetto nato da questa collaborazione, concepito dagli studenti dell'ECAL e realizzato dagli artigiani di Mec-Art, illustra il know-how che è stato tramandato di generazione in generazione e che si trova ancora oggi nelle botteghe, nei laboratori e nelle manifatture di Sainte-Croix.
La mostra Meccaniche prodigiose è dedicata alle cinque installazioni nate da questo progetto. Curata da Nicolas Le Moigne, responsabile del programma all'ECAL, insieme con l'esperto britannico Simon Kidston, la mostra invita i visitatori in uno spazio coinvolgente, creato dalla designer svizzera Charlotte Therre, che gioca con luci, materiali e trasparenze. Completamente interattiva, la mostra permette ai visitatori di attivare e dare vita ai capolavori meccanici azionando una manovella. Così facendo, il pubblico sarò sorpreso e deliziato dalla natura molto umana e calda di queste opere d'arte cinetica, e dal mondo poetico e fantastico che creano.
"Questo ambizioso progetto è una vera fonte di scambio e di collaborazione: gli artigiani condividono la loro esperienza e il loro know-how con gli studenti, mentre gli studenti sfidano gli artigiani con le loro idee innovative e spesso sorprendenti." - Nicolas Le Moigne
"Sono persuaso che il pubblico uscirà da Meccaniche prodigiose con la consapevolezza che c'è un futuro luminoso per l'artigianato, in tutte le sue forme. Questa mostra rivela come la profonda conoscenza e le tradizioni secolari degli artigiani di Sainte-Croix vengono tramandate alle nuove generazioni". - Simon Kidston
Meccaniche prodigiose è ambientata nella Sala delle Fotografie presso la Fondazione Giorgio Cini. È una delle 15 mostre tematiche di Homo Faber Event 2022, organizzato dalla Michelangelo Foundation.
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Organised by the Michelangelo Foundation for Creativity and Craftsmanship, the Homo Faber Event is an international exhibition that champions artisanal talent, showcasing an impressive variety of materials, techniques and skills through live demonstrations, immersive digital experiences and imaginative displays of handcrafted creations. From functional everyday objects to outstanding decorative pieces, this edition highlights craft’s role in creating a more sustainable and inclusive future. The event offers a rare chance to admire the prestigious work of a selection of Japan’s National Living Treasures and to experience craft and its connections to the arts and to the design world. Visitors can join guided tours of the 15 exhibition spaces led by passionate students participating in the Young Ambassadors Programme. Imagined by a team of world-renowned curators and designers, the scenographic event transforms the magnificent spaces of the Fondazione Giorgio Cini, located on San Giorgio Maggiore Island in the heart of the Venetian lagoon. On top of the event, the Homo Faber in Città project gives visitors a chance to experience craftsmanship across Venice through tailor-made itineraries. homofaber.com
The Michelangelo Foundation for Creativity and Craftsmanship is a non-profit institution based in Geneva, Switzerland, which champions contemporary craftspeople worldwide with the aim of promoting a more human, inclusive and sustainable future. The Foundation seeks to highlight the connections between craft, the wider arts and the design world. Its mission is to both celebrate and preserve craftsmanship and its diversity of makers, materials and techniques, by increasing craft’s everyday recognition and its viability as a professional path for the next generations. From engaging educational programmes such as the Summer Schools, to its signature digital project the Homo Faber Guide and the international exhibition Homo Faber Event, the Foundation is fostering a cultural movement centred on master artisans and rising stars. michelangelofoundation.org
ECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne
Featuring regularly among the world’s top ten universities of art and design (fifth in the Dezeen Hot List 2016), ECAL benefits from numerous press articles and awards, an enviable number of exhibitions in famous venues, and the success of its graduates. ECAL currently offers a foundation course, six bachelor’s degree courses, and seven master’s/MAS programmes in Fine Arts, Film, Graphic Design, Media & Interaction Design, Photography, Industrial & Product Design, Type Design, Design for Luxury & Craftsmanship, and Design Research for Digital Innovation (with EPFL+ECAL Lab). www.ecal.ch
Association Mec-Art
The purpose of Association Mec-Art (Pour la Mécanique d’Art), from Sainte-Croix, Switzerland, is to preserve and promote ancestral traditions, enabling technological and artistic advances and building a bridge between art and mechanical technology. The initiative was born in 2017 with the involvement of CPNV, PERFORM, the town of Sainte-Croix and artisans themselves. Today it has become a centre dedicated to this savoir-faire, with a mission to unite, share and address authentic values. In reaction to this era of globalisation, connectivity, dematerialisation and virtual reality, an increasing number of people are eager to discover local traditions. The artisans of Sainte-Croix region are committed to maintaining and passing on their local artisanal heritage. In 2020 UNESCO placed horological and mechanical art on the Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. ”Mécanique d’Art” is when mechanics add both motion and emotion to art, thus becoming a mechanical work of art. That includes automata, music boxes, singing birds, artisanal watchmaking, animated paintings or sculptures, mechanical music and any mechanical object referring to art without the restriction of motorisation. www.mec-art.ch
Nicolas Le Moigne
Nicolas Le Moigne is a designer and professor at ECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne. For more than ten years, he has headed the Master of Advanced Studies in Design for Luxury & Craftsmanship. This unique course allows the students to work in close collaboration with prestigious maisons, which can draw on a heritage of a hundred years or more, in order to further their design education in areas of excellence as varied as fine watchmaking, tableware, fashion, gastronomy and the métiers d’art, and to learn particular techniques with regards to the use of noble materials and craftsmanship.
Simon Kidston
With high-profile clients around the world, Simon Kidston is a well-known expert on classic cars. He began his career in the late-1980s at a London auction house, before co-founding Brooks (now Bonhams) Europe in Geneva, spending the next decade staging international auctions dedicated to rare and valuable cars. In 2006, he set up an independent consultancy to advise collectors that is now synonymous with Private Treaty sales of rare and exceptional motor cars. He has been involved in several heritage events for historic cars including the Cartier Travel With Style concours in India, the Mille Miglia, the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance and the Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este in Italy. He contributes to Ramp and Vanity Fair magazines and has just published the definitive book on the Lamborghini Miura.
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