Impressions hosted a selection of chalcography and woodcut works, created by former LdM students during 33 years of printmaking courses in Florence. The exhibition was a tribute to students of various ages, who came from all over the world and worked with dedication and passion for mastering this ancient and yet very actual technique.
IMPRESSIONS
Ghosting
GHOSTING collects the works of five emergent artists, and it has been organized in collaboration with Associazione Culturale Forme.
Featuring the works of five emergent artists, Ghosting explores the impalpable border between physical and virtual reality, delving into their intricate and fleeting intersections, and presenting landscapes hovering between the digital world and everyday three dimensional life.
Chasing the ephemeral traces left by past interpersonal relations, the artists explore, challenge and question the evocative power of image, awakening ghosts, reflections, wreckages; mere glimmers and shadows of presence turned into absence.
Click on the image to see the catalog of the exhibition.
The exhibition GHOSTING will run from Tuesday, September 17th to Thursday, October 10th.
After the launch, the LdM Gallery is open weekly from Tuesday to Thursday, 5.30-7.30 PM.
Opening night will include a free aperitivo.
Visit the LdM Gallery page for more information.
Perpetual Adage
PERPETUAL ADAGE displays the works of LdM Alumnus and visual artist, Alexander Salazar. The artworks reflect upon the concepts of time and transformation.
Perpetual Adage is a series five years in the making that depicts classic ballerina and Marist-LdM Alumna Anna Russell dancing in 2014 and again in 2019. The past, present, and future are fused together to capture the omnipresent self-transformation process that everyone experiences in life.
The artworks in this series were realized using various traditional and contemporary techniques. While some of the images were painted, others were further developed using Adobe Photoshop and printed on contemporary materials. For example, in the piece Perpetual, three images were printed on separate transparent layers of plexiglass, juxtaposing a two-dimensional image onto a three-dimensional plane. The synthesis of traditional and contemporary materials represents the dynamic and multifaceted nature of identity.
Click on the image to see the catalog of the exhibition.
The exhibition PERPETUAL ADAGE will run from Monday, July 15th to Thursday, August 1st.
After the launch, the LdM Gallery is open weekly from Tuesday to Thursday, 4.30-7 PM.
Opening night will include a free aperitivo.
Visit the LdM Gallery page for more information.
New courses in partnership with Fondazione Franco Zeffirelli
For the Academic Year 2019-2020 the LdM-Fondazione Zeffirelli partnership has expanded, resulting in new interdisciplinary courses offered at LdM Florence in the fields of Performing Arts, Literature, Media Arts and Studies and more.
Recently Istituto Lorenzo de’ Medici started a fruitful partnership with Fondazione Franco Zeffirelli – International Center for the Arts and Entertainment, located right in the heart of the historical center of Florence.
The Center, supported by the Maestro himself, aims to make the artistic and cultural heritage of a seventy-year career available to both the city of Florence, Zeffirelli’s birthplace, and internationally, to future generations.
The Fondazione Zeffirelli’s archives include his film productions, as well as his works of drama, opera, and ballet, and offer an exclusive opportunity to LdM students to embark on an artistic journey.
NEW COURSES 2019/2020
Romeo and Juliet – A Love Story across the Arts
Voices of an Artist: Voyaging through Franco Zeffirelli’s World
Dante’s Quest for Love – From the Divine Comedy to Contemporary Culture and Media
For more information on these courses, please contact us
CUCINA Lorenzo de’ Medici opens a new branch in Turin
After its successful experience in Florence, the Lorenzo de’ Medici Cooking School lands in the new Mercato Centrale Torino.
From this year Lorenzo De’ Medici Cooking School, whose first branch is located inside the Mercato Centrale Firenze, have decided to put down roots inside the new Mercato Centrale Torino to offer all food lovers a new, engaging, and innovative experience and to bring Torino’s public closer to the warm flavors of Tuscan cuisine.
ABOUT CUCINA LdM
Lorenzo De’ Medici Cooking School is a side project of Lorenzo De’ Medici Institute. The ability to sense and nurture the resources of Italy and Italian culture (in particular of Tuscany region) and the love for the history of our country and for its extraordinary knowledge and flavors, ancient and artisanal, have guided all of the Institute’s choices, in the person of Fabrizio and Carla Guarducci. Last but not least, the decision to create another cooking school, this time inside the Mercato Centrale Torino, within the splendid framework of Centro Palatino, in the historical neighborhood of Porta Palazzo.
Through special courses, run in close contact with the artisans of taste, the Lorenzo de’ Medici Cooking School aims to become a point of reference for good food, culture and tradition lovers, as well as the education that can be received through good cuisine, which is a powerful mean of communication.
The food artisans themselves and their products are the main protagonists of our cooking courses, both in Firenze and Torino. All those who will attend the different school’s courses will have the opportunity to learn – thanks to the direct touch with Mercato Centrale’s artisans- the methods and attention to the quality of each and every ingredient until they get a comprehensive understanding of each product.
The range of available courses has been conceived to describe and teach a new lifestyle to all lovers of fine food, which revolves around taste and passion, the genuineness of products, the conviviality and communication of our chefs. This is a philosophy aimed at winning people’s heart that enables everybody to enjoy and appreciate food in a different way, by gaining a new culinary awareness that will last long after the completion of their educational path.
The school opened in June 2019, all available courses and shows are listed here: torino.cucinaldm.com
For more information about the cooking school, please contact [email protected]
VIRTUALITY – Images from a pixelated reality
VIRTUALITY collects the main works of a LdM Alumna, Lovisa Rönngren. The main theme is exploring the way reality is shaped by online information and interaction.
Through this exhibition, Lovisa reflects on how different subjects are digitally connected through pixels and words typed on screens and devices.
Through social media, the artist has tied relationships with people she has never met; she learnt about an attack online that happened on the other side of the world and yet in this online, digital scenery she has difficulties with maintaining tangible relationships. Ultimately, the question is about what her reality will be, something she is trying to answer by mixing oil paint with virtual relationships.
Click on the image to see the catalog of the exhibition.
The exhibition VIRTUALITY will run from Monday, June 10th to Thursday, July 11th.
After the launch, the LdM Gallery is open weekly from Tuesday to Thursday, 4.30-7 PM.
Opening night will include a real-time performance by Lovisa and a free aperitivo.
More information on the LdM Gallery here
VISIONS – FASHION EXHIBITION …seen through the eyes of the future
VISIONS explored a wide variety of illustrations, clothing, digital printing and experimental designs through the eyes of LdM's fashion students.
Through the imaginative and singular perspective of LdM fashion designers, VISIONS showcases the diverse approach to the creative solution addressing a broad range of consumers. The genesis of the individual point of view grew from the designer’s interaction, sensibility and aesthetic sensitivity to the world-at-large resulting from an inspirational source or brand’s DNA.
VISIONS explores a wide variety of illustrations, clothing, digital printing and experimental designs through the eyes of the future of the fashion industry. This exhibit examines the personal growth and conceptual development of each designers journey through the design process while fostering a dialogue between the individual and the final product for a target market or, simply for materials exploration.
The exhibition VISIONS will run from Friday, May 10th to Thursday, May 16th.
After the launch, the LdM Gallery is open weekly from Tuesday to Thursday, 5-7 PM.
Opening night will include a free aperitivo
During LdM Gallery Art is in the Square event on Saturday, May 11th, the exhibition will be open to the public from 11 AM to 5 PM.
More information on the LdM Gallery here
Art is in The Square 2019
LdM students take over Piazza San Lorenzo in this yearly display of art, design and fashion. Dance and music performances were also held in Via Faenza 43.
Art is in the Square is the initiative by which the Lorenzo de’ Medici Institute celebrates each year the creative abilities of its students, the historic community of San Lorenzo and the topics connected to cultural diversity.
The event, now in its thirteenth year, includes several artistic events involving LdM students: an exhibition of art and design, a dance show, and performances by the LdM student choir & jam ensemble, finally a round table, and a video screening inspired by the topic discrimination.
PROGRAM
11:00am – 6:30pm Piazza San Lorenzo
Art and design exhibition
Featuring works by students of Fine Arts, Design and Media Arts and Studies departments.
In case of rain, the exhibitions will be held at:
LdM premises – Via dell’Alloro 14 – Department of Fine Arts
LdM Library, Via dell’Alloro 13
11:00am – 5:00pm LdM Gallery, Via dei Pucci 4
VISIONS – Fashion exhibition
Featuring works by Fashion students
10:30am – 12:00pm Via Faenza 43, Chiesa di San Jacopo in Campo Corbolini
DiscriminACTION
Round table and video screening
3:00pm – 5:00pm Via Faenza 43, Chiesa di San Jacopo in Campo Corbolini
Dance recital and LdM Jam Ensemble & Choir
Featuring students in classical, modern and flamenco dance courses, as well as a performance by the LdM choir & ensemble clubs.
DiscriminACTION – Creating a world everyone wants to live in
DiscriminACTION was a round table led by LdM Event Planning students within the wider the Art is in the Square celebrations, which took place Saturday 11th of May.
The conference revolves around violence and discrimination in our society and how these can quietly seep into our lives, causing distress and uneasiness.
Nowadays discrimination can come in several forms, either blatant or subtle: from household appliances industry’s bias against left-handed people, to the salary gap between male and female workers, examples of intolerance and unfairness can be found in any environment. LdM Event Planning students were tasked with identifying the most striking pieces of evidences of discrimination in their everyday life, conduct thorough research and finally organize a round table to discuss them.
Students’ assignments also included designing graphics and shooting a video to support the information and awareness campaign on both printed material and social media; select and invite influential speakers to the round table, in order to discuss the outcome of their research; cooperate with the Body Language course professor to examine how our negative feelings can show through our body expressions.
PROGRAM
10.30 – Erin Marr – Opening/Presentation of the Project
10:40 – Video Clip – Showing of the clip made by the Students
10:50 – Keely Meetze – Moderator
Stefano Marinelli
Origins of Violence and Conflicts
The visible and invisible violence we face in our daily life
Progress and Step-backs
Eva DeClerq
Re-thinking disability what can a body do?
Showing of film by Judith Butler (famous American philosopher/gender theorist) and Sunaura Taylor (disability activist and artist).
Carla Fronteddu
Violence on Women
Violence on women in Italy, from the “codice Rocco” to the “no one less movement”, an overview on how the legislative approach has changed and femminist movement that is focusing on other ways of oppression beyond the gender.
Stefano Marinelli
Xenophoby
Final Message
11:50 – Q&A
12:15 – closing and thanks – Sarah Birchenough
12:30 – Paolo Grassini
Showing of 2 short films + 1 Animated Card
Florence Circa 1600: Patrician Families and the Financing of Culture
Studies about the cultural life of Florence at the turn of the seventeenth century usually concentrate on the Medici court, the various academies, or the confraternities, and less on the role of patrician families who had sustained both the economy and the society since late medieval times
These élite families participated in the academies and in court life but also had many more focused particular interests; they were a vital to the creation of new forms of art and music.
In this conference, we hope to shine a light on the economic activities of such families and how their economic successes permitted avant-garde culture—in literature, art, music, theatre, etc.—to flourish. We are interested in each family’s patronage of artists and artisans but also how this patronage influenced other families with whom they had contact through informal gatherings as well as established institutions. There are many families which could be studied in this regard, for example the Bardi (especially Giovanni), Corsi (Jacopo and Bardo), Davanzati (Bernardo), Del Bene (Giulio), Del Nero, Gaddi (Niccolò), Guicciardini (Piero), Rinuccini (Ottavio and Alessandro), Strozzi (Piero and Giovanni Battista the Younger/ ‘il poeta’), but also others. We focus on individual patrons in these critical decades, but also on more general issues raised by our theme.
We will hold the conference 11-12 April 2019, the 450th anniversary of the foundation of the Accademia degli Alterati. It is supported by the Istituto Lorenzo de’ Medici (M.A. in Museum Studies) and the University of Florence (SAGAS Department).
Associated with the conference is an exhibition on Michelangelo the Younger and the Birth of Opera at the Casa Buonarroti and a production of the recently discovered first rendition of Dafne — the first such production ever attempted.
The conference is organized by Tim Carter, Francesca Fantappiè, Maia Wellington Gahtan, and Donatella Pegazzano.
The conference is free, open to the public and no pre-registration is required. There is limited capacity in both venues.
For information: +39 055 287360
[email protected]
Download the program here
