MAGIC CARPETS EXHIBITIONS AND EVENTS

Exhibitions, events, round tables and sharing moments realised by Latitudo Art Projects together with the EU co-funded Magic Carpets platform.

Magic Carpets residencies

THE STREET KIDS
Magic Carpets a project beyond suburbia

Round Table + Film Screening

10 February 2023 | MAXXI – National Museum of 21st Century Arts

THE STREET KIDS

Magic Carpets a project beyond suburbia

10 February 2023
MAXXI – National Museum of 21st Century Arts

An opportunity to reflect on the concept of the periphery beyond the sense of a geographical boundary. Because the centre-periphery binomial still represents a structure of consciousness.

The meeting starts from the European platform Magic Carpets. This awareness-raising project aims to cultivate a sense of belonging and to introduce to a broad and international audience young emerging talents who are called upon each year to confront different local identities through residency projects. Inspired by the reflections of Pier Paolo Pasolini, the Magic Carpets project contributes to reformulating the notion of borders by initiating the development of widespread creativity.

On the occasion of the meeting, the docufilm Core made by Monkeys Video Lab and curated by Latitudo Art Projects and the catalogue Magic Carpets Landed published by Quodlibet realised in collaboration with the Kaunas Biennial will be presented.

Here following the Invitation and the Schedule!
Visit the website Magic Carpets.

ROUND TABLE

Carlo Scarpa hall

DOCUFILM

Videogallery

MAGIC CARPETS LANDED
We will leave our shape behind

Curated by Benedetta Carpi De Resmini

15 July 2022 – 24 July 2022 | Aveiro (Portugal) – Festival Dos Canais

MAGIC CARPETS LANDED

We will leave our shape behind

15 July 2022 – 24 July 2022
Aveiro (Portugal) – Festival Dos Canais

The title of the exhibition refers to “1001 Arabian Nights” by Sheherazade, fairy-tale story about the magic and flying carpet, for flying over the world in a twinkling of an eye. This fantastic story becomes here a convincing metaphor of the power of culture to change the mistrust and confrontation into intercultural dialogue, mutual understanding, respect and even love. The subtitle, inspired by a Woman Poetess Audre Lorde, We Will Leave Our Shape Behind (from the poem A woman speaks) gives the idea that we are passing through a new period which raises up new questions.

The international exhibition is a co-creative process, and not just a show of artworks. The concept is related to the idea of transformation and mutation, a starting point to speak to the audience about our contemporaneity. Visitor will be taken in a new story, the story of women artists. Warriors able to adapt to different and adverse circumstances, without sacrificing themselves. They are women that are capable to transform situations, finding great strength in creating a cohesive and resilient network.

Here following the Press Release and the Programme!
Visit the website Magic Carpets Landed

EVENTS AND PERFORMANCE

EXHIBITION

MAGIC CARPETS LANDED

Curated by Benedetta Carpi De Resmini

5 November 2021 – 23 January 2022 | Kaunas (Lithuania) – European Capital of Cuture 2022

MAGIC CARPETS LANDED

5 November 2021 – 23 January 2022
Kaunas (Lithuania) – European Capital of Culture 2022

“Fifteen international partner
57 artists
One exhibition
…constantly mutating”

The international exhibit MagiC Carpets Landed is the final event of the four-year project MagiC Carpets, co-financed by Creative Europe, designed to boost visibility for emerging artists throughout Europe. This journey around Europe, with its gaze set on the future, actively involved young audiences and local communities in the fifteen partner countries.

The exhibition presented the work of 57 European artists who, over the four years of the project, provided specific artistic interpretations of the residence locations in different countries.

In Kaunas, each artist provided reflections on pertinent topics such as marginalization, crossing borders, nationalism, and migration. The common thread connecting the various sections the curator organised the exhibit into, however, is really the social energy that brings out movements of change within communities.

Here following the Press Release and the Programme!
Visit the website Magic Carpets Landed

 

MAGIC CATALOGUE

Click here for more info about the Magic Carpets Landed catalogue!

MAGIC CARPETS LANDED OPENING 

THE EXHIBITION

YOUTUBE VIDEO

MAGIC CARPETS

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