Events

The Piero Cattaneo Foundation’s ‘Officina della Scultura’ exhibition series, dedicated to exploring the places, languages and processes of contemporary sculpture, is also coming to Pavia. 

On 17 and 18 October at 3.00 pm, the tour begins at the studio of Sergio Alberti, an artist whose work centres on the themes of the fragment, stratification and the exploration of materials. Stepping into his studio and being guided by the artist himself will be an opportunity to gain an up-close insight into his tools, materials and creative processes.

On Saturday and Sunday at 4.30 pm, following the studio visit, the tour moves to the Horti. Sergio Alberti, in conversation with Marcella Cattaneo – art historian and curator at the Piero Cattaneo Foundation – will guide the public on a discovery of the artist’s work on display in the park. Afterwards, Simone Miraldi, a guide at the Horti, will lead the public on a guided tour of the artistic exhibition. Register via the link.

From 20 October to 17 November, the Horti are hosting a workshop to explore the indispensable bond of friendship through literature, psychoanalysis and plenty of discussion.

Each session of the workshop focuses on a core value underpinning friendships. Each theme will be explored through artistic and literary insights and from a psychological and analytical perspective, in an ongoing dialogue between Gaia Manzini, journalist and writer, and Dana Scotto di Fasano, an SPI psychoanalyst. Each session will feature a practical or writing exercise. The sessions will take the form of a workshop, designed to engage participants and foster fruitful dialogue.

At the first session on 20 October at 6.30 pm, the theme ‘Growing Together’ will be explored through the following texts: Fred Uhlman’s "The Rediscovered Friend", Elena Ferrante’s "My Brilliant Friend", alongside Antonia Pozzi’s letters on gratitude for friendship, and Zaza and Simone de Beauvoir.

Upcoming sessions:

27 October: IRONY AND JOY

10 November: CARE

17 November: SHARING

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Let’s get back together after the summer break with the Aperilibro event on Friday 30 October at 7:00 pm.

What happens when a long-standing cultural tradition – one that has shaped Russian identity – encounters the language of modern-day propaganda? And where does the fine line lie between contemporary reality and the myth of an imperial past?

We’ll be discussing this with Gian Piero Piretto, author of Il Paese di Putin. Venti parole al servizio della propaganda (Raffaello Cortina Editore), a journey through key words to understand how vocabulary can become a tool for storytelling, consensus-building and the consolidation of power.

Registration required via the link. Free event. For those who wish, an aperitivo is available for €10.

Luca Bernasconi’s exhibition “Che io veda. The Gaze, the Face, the Other and the Infinite” is being shown for the very first time following the agreement signed between ICS Maugeri Pavia and the Horti Foundation. Two Pavia-based institutions coming together and finding common ground in the field of care. Because caring for vulnerable people means laying the foundations that make it possible to feel well, whatever the circumstances. This is the spirit that inspired the photographic exhibition. In the photographs by Bernasconi, a palliative care doctor at ICS Maugeri Pavia – as well as in the everyday, expert gestures of healthcare workers – art appears as a form of care: it is creativity that takes on the burden of fragile humanity, observing it and, in doing so, restoring its presence and dignity.

Come and visit the Extra Art space, Tuesday to Sunday, from 10:00 to 19:00.