Francesco Arena “E-EXTRAORDINARY”

E-EXTRAORDINARY, the program of the Ermanno Casoli Foundation which resulted in the world of contemporary art, using it as a teaching tool for corporate training, the 29 January 2015 proposes a new project in Udine, involving the artist Francesco Arena, winner of the XI edition of the Ermanno Casoli and host of the Italian Pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennale. E-EXTRAORDINARY, that on this occasion sees the collaboration of M&D, company specializing in training and human resource development, has just received the first prize Culture + Enterprise. The program, already successfully tested in different industrial, was born with the aim to bring art into companies as a privileged instrument to create work environments susceptible to change and innovation.
The event is hosted as part of the third edition of Business Meets Art, by association Etrarte, international event dedicated to art and business, which is proposed as an opportunity for networking between cultural projects and the business world.
The workshop with Francesco Arena, Thursday 29 January to the Castle Museum of Udine, has the evocative title As a child I walked putting his feet only on black tiles, now that are great when I walk I do not know more about which color tiles put your feet. This will be a series of "exercises" that investigate the relationship between the individual and the memory, trying to figure out how to live and personal memories are lost in the flow of the collective memory. The body of each participant, in its uniqueness, will be the means to confront their limitations and interact with the boundaries of others. The workshop reflects the poetry of Francesco Arena, between the Italian artists more careful in investigating the recent political and social history, national and international, applying a strong symbolism in a plastic research, coherent and analytical.
The artist will be expected to interact with a diverse group: it will work alongside a group of twenty people between entrepreneurs, representatives of institutions and young artists, all mainly active in the Friuli area, that experience with the methodology of the Fondazione Ermanno Casoli. Piero Tucci, senior partner of the training company M&D, using the metaphor of art as a teaching methodology, will guide participants in an aim to establish a sensitivity to the meanings and logics that form the backdrop to the team game. Reflections on collaboration, on the diversity of styles and methods of work will be taken forward and fed from the experience of the participants in the creation of a collective work. The purpose of this work will give way to "know how to do together".