Made In Loco #Ceramics #Papier-mâché
Publisher Description
The eBook "Made in Loco #Ceramics #Papier-mâché" proposes, with reflections, pictures and videos, a synthesis of the third edition of the Project "Made in Loco" with the artist’s residencies.
Made in Loco is a project by Regional Secretary of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage, Activities and Tourism (MiBACT) in Apulia, of rediscovering and promoting, even through tourism, the excellent handicrafts that Apulia offers, a hotbed of talents and know-how, ready to embrace new creative experiences. Born in 2014, it has come to its third edition in Grottaglie, Laterza and Lecce.
The first two phases were financed with funds made available by the Apulia Region for the European Regional Development Fund (operational programme 2007-2013) while this edition is financed by the “POIn” (Inter-regional Operational Programme ERDF APULIA 2007-2013 “Cultural and Natural Attractors and Tourism” - Axis II – Intervention measures II 2.1 - Intervention under the jurisdiction of the Regional Government “Intangible and touristic promotion of the territory”).
Made in Loco aims to strengthen the tie between art, creativity, forms of artisan excellency and education. The project has reached its third edition and its sixth artist in residency, following a successful, tried and true format which has brought about an animated sequence of exhibitions and events in the towns of Grottaglie, Laterza and Lecce.
The residencies Grottaglie and Laterza; Tradition and innovation in Apulian ceramics, in the second edition, experimented with the relationship between ceramics and new technologies, both through “narrations” usable on – swipe story - dedicated Apps, as well as through Finger painting performance, The Interpretation of Ceramics by the Anglo/Canadian artist, Matthew Watkins carried out for the finissage in Grottaglie.
During the residencies, Dutch artist, Mara van Wees in Grottaglie and Jasmine Pignatelli in Laterza – selected through public tender by the project’s Science Committee – participated in meetings, seminars, workshops and study/visits helping to revive the relationship with the new generations and especially with the students from the Art High Schools.
All of the materials produced (studies, videos, designs, photos) were also used in the communication campaign that accompanied every phase of the project and which made use of “social” channels as well as the usual forms of communication.
‘Cartapesta’ from Lecce and papier-mâché marks the first edition linked to the art of Papier- mâché in Lecce with the intervention of artist Federica Ricotti.
This town in the Salento area is surely the centre of diffusion of this artistic production and it is here that papier-mâché had its most prosperous seasons. Involving mostly sculpture, it took on the role of “surrogate wooden sculpture”, ideally product with its lightness and poorness.
