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Atelier dell'Errore - Vela Alpina, 2024 and Marmottoloide, 2024 - Biennale Gherdëina Office, Pontives

Atelier dell’Errore, Vela Alpina, 2024. Mixed Technique on Polyester and Carbon Fibre. 600 x 200 cm. Photo by Tiberio Sorvillo
Atelier dell’Errore, Marmottoloide, 2024. Mixed Technique and Gold Leaf on Polyester and Carbon Fibre. Variable Dimensions. Commissioned by Biennale Gherdëina 9. Photo by Tiberio Sorvillo

Atelier dell’Errore is a collective of eleven neurodivergent artists who have been working together since 2002, basing their collaboration on a few clear rules: graphite as the tool of choice, animals as subjects, no erasing allowed. In over twenty years of activity, Atelier dell’Errore has created a bestiary of hybrid beings: part insect, part inhabitants of the abyss, and in rare cases, mammals. They are monstrous, disturbing and magnetic creatures, the result of a group work that right from the start of their work approached large formats and more recently drawing and painting on unconventional surfaces. In 2018, the collective was established as a social cooperative art studio, and its members were employed as drawing artists. Their salary depends on the sale of their works, and their activity – which has never been equated with so-called ‘outsider art’ – is completely independent of the public health service.

For The Parliament of Marmots, Atelier dell’Errore will present a six-metre high Vela Alpina (‘Alpine sail’) hoisted up a lamppost in Pontives, in front of the Biennale Gherdeina headquarters, in reference to the sea that shaped the Dolomites two hundred and fifty million years ago. The work is based on an experimental material that transforms the thermal blankets used to shelter migrants on the shores of the Mediterranean into a real sail, from a material of rescue to one of hope. Inside the offices, Atelier dell’Errore will transform the space with specific drawings and works that feature several ‘Marmottoloids’, including the ‘Marmot-Punk’ design adopted for the visual identity of The Parliament of Marmots. (M.P.)

ATELIER DELL’ERRORE

Atelier dell’Errore (AdE) [Atelier of Mistakes] is an artist collective dedicated to visual arts and performance, based in Reggio Emilia, Italy. Founded in 2002 by Luca Santiago Mora, who today leads the group as its artistic director, AdE began as a drawing workshop for neurodivergent children cared for by the pediatric health system of Reggio Emilia and Bergamo. In 2015, after some of the artists turned 18, the AdE collective was subsequently created, independent from the public health service. Since then, Collezione Maramotti has hosted AdE  as an ongoing project. In 2018, with the close collaboration of the artists’ families, AdE was established as a non-profit, cooperative art studio. AdE’s recent exhibitions and performances include: Richard Saltoun Gallery, Palazzo Nuñez-Torlonia, Rome; GAM, Turin; Massimo De Carlo, Milan; THSN Foundation, Teatrino Palazzo Grassi and Fondazione Cini, Venice; Moretti Gallery, London.

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Atelier dell'Errore - Vela Alpina, 2024 and Marmottoloide, 2024 - Biennale Gherdëina Office, Pontives

Atelier dell’Errore, Vela Alpina, 2024. Mixed Technique on Polyester and Carbon Fibre. 600 x 200 cm. Photo by Tiberio Sorvillo
Atelier dell’Errore, Marmottoloide, 2024. Mixed Technique and Gold Leaf on Polyester and Carbon Fibre. Variable Dimensions. Commissioned by Biennale Gherdëina 9. Photo by Tiberio Sorvillo

Atelier dell’Errore is a collective of eleven neurodivergent artists who have been working together since 2002, basing their collaboration on a few clear rules: graphite as the tool of choice, animals as subjects, no erasing allowed. In over twenty years of activity, Atelier dell’Errore has created a bestiary of hybrid beings: part insect, part inhabitants of the abyss, and in rare cases, mammals. They are monstrous, disturbing and magnetic creatures, the result of a group work that right from the start of their work approached large formats and more recently drawing and painting on unconventional surfaces. In 2018, the collective was established as a social cooperative art studio, and its members were employed as drawing artists. Their salary depends on the sale of their works, and their activity – which has never been equated with so-called ‘outsider art’ – is completely independent of the public health service.

For The Parliament of Marmots, Atelier dell’Errore will present a six-metre high Vela Alpina (‘Alpine sail’) hoisted up a lamppost in Pontives, in front of the Biennale Gherdeina headquarters, in reference to the sea that shaped the Dolomites two hundred and fifty million years ago. The work is based on an experimental material that transforms the thermal blankets used to shelter migrants on the shores of the Mediterranean into a real sail, from a material of rescue to one of hope. Inside the offices, Atelier dell’Errore will transform the space with specific drawings and works that feature several ‘Marmottoloids’, including the ‘Marmot-Punk’ design adopted for the visual identity of The Parliament of Marmots. (M.P.)

ATELIER DELL’ERRORE

Atelier dell’Errore (AdE) [Atelier of Mistakes] is an artist collective dedicated to visual arts and performance, based in Reggio Emilia, Italy. Founded in 2002 by Luca Santiago Mora, who today leads the group as its artistic director, AdE began as a drawing workshop for neurodivergent children cared for by the pediatric health system of Reggio Emilia and Bergamo. In 2015, after some of the artists turned 18, the AdE collective was subsequently created, independent from the public health service. Since then, Collezione Maramotti has hosted AdE  as an ongoing project. In 2018, with the close collaboration of the artists’ families, AdE was established as a non-profit, cooperative art studio. AdE’s recent exhibitions and performances include: Richard Saltoun Gallery, Palazzo Nuñez-Torlonia, Rome; GAM, Turin; Massimo De Carlo, Milan; THSN Foundation, Teatrino Palazzo Grassi and Fondazione Cini, Venice; Moretti Gallery, London.