50th Guttuso Museum: “Artist’s Tales: students at the museum” kicks off.
Cycle of educational meetings for students to meet 5 local artists at the Guttuso Museum.
It is called ‘Artist’s tales: students at the museum’ and is an educational project that is part of the calendar of initiatives planned for the 50th anniversary celebrations of the Guttuso museum.
Five Bagherese artists ranging in the fields of painting, photography, cart drawing, screenwriting and fibre art will meet for a masterclass delegations of about 40 students from the city’s high schools at the Guttuso museum.
They are Filly Cusenza, Francesco Domilici, Michele Ducato, Arrigo Musti and Paolo Pintacuda.
The artists will be introduced and presented by the city’s journalist Marina Mancini, who will coordinate the students who wish to ask the five art professionals questions.
Not only a lesson on their profession, their works, but also a way to enthuse the young Bagheria students about art and the works in the Guttuso museum.
The lesson will be itinerant, the students will be able to listen to the passion that animates the work of the artists in front of their works or following videos.
To organise the meetings, 10 of them, two for each school, the Culture Department with the collaboration of the Education Department respectively led by councillors Daniele Vella and Provvidenza Tripoli who will also meet the students for a brief greeting at some of the meetings.
<< The aim of the project is ambitious and with a highly educational purpose: to bring young people closer to the museum and make them passionate about art, to make them prefer an exhibition, a cultural visit: and this with the aim of educating them, stimulating their aesthetic taste and, above all, arousing and releasing positive emotions – says Councillor Tripoli – Getting to know the cultural paths of the different artists, moreover, represents a unique experience for young people, because it allows them to discover and understand beauty through the eyes and sensitivity of masters who have a different outlook and vision of things in the world and of life >>.
