A cura di Daniela Lorenzi e Cristian Boffelli LPK e il Progetto K1, 2003
Workshops and meetings.
LPK
In 2002 Cristian Boffelli, together with 4 other artist-craftsmen, founded the L.P.K social cooperative, which runs creative activities in the field of psychophysical disability and whose working tools are ceramics, painting and printmaking.
Project K1 and the Brazilian presence
A year after its founding, Cristian Boffelli and Daniela Lorenzi decided to organise a project in the LPK premises that hosted the team of Atelier Quattordici Grafica Upiglio 22250, involving artists from overseas.
Helena Freddi and Francisco José Maringelli, university lecturers in the Chair of Printmaking at UNICSUL University, the Centro Universitario Belas Artes de São Paulo and Faculdades Integradas Guarulhos in São Paulo, led two three-day workshops: Serigrafia Applicata alla Calcografia (29-30 November and 1 December 2002) and Xilo nella tradizione brasiliana(13-14-15 December 2002), with the participation of students from the Accademia di Bergamo, professional artists and young people with Down syndrome.
The project also included an exhibition of prints by the two artists at Spazio Arte, a gallery in Fara Gera d’Adda (BG), a meeting/presentation and a musical event, As Modinhas do Brasil, with Edilson de Lima, professor and researcher in the Chair of History of Brazilian Music at UNICSUL University in São Paulo, Brazil, at the Biblioteca Comunale di Fara Gera d’Adda.
LPK meetings
The meetings between the young people of the Ellepikappa Social Cooperative and Atelier Quattordici Grafica Upiglio 22250 continued for several years.
Some of the trainees who periodically follow a training programme at the Milan atelier also took part in these working days.
From the project's introductory text:
For some years now our Atelier has had the privilege of working with Brazilian artists, thereby helping to strengthen a bridge of cultural exchange between Italy and Brazil. We have managed to consolidate a network of relationships that foster mutual understanding and artistic enrichment.
The main aim of all the projects carried out so far has been to offer participants the opportunity to work in our spaces through experimentation and research, while also enabling them to present their works to a wider and more diverse public. This exchange has also allowed Italian artists to engage with a different reality and cultural experience overseas, thus contributing to mutual enrichment.
In recent decades, the freedom and experimental approach adopted by Brazilian artists have helped to rediscover a contemporary meaning even in ancient techniques such as intaglio printing. This approach has given rise to mixed processes serving the image, often unknown in our context, which tends to preserve a traditional historical memory. Unfortunately, this has often created a closed art market running parallel to current developments, especially technological ones.
There is no doubt that collaboration with Brazilian artists is extremely beneficial, as they bring significant experience, both technical and historical, which is essential for enriching and deepening artistic research.
For a month, the Municipality of Fara Gera D’Adda hosted the artists, taking the opportunity to present them alongside two workshops that they will lead, as university lecturers, at the Ellepikappa Cooperative in Pontirolo Nuovo. After all, many projects arise from a simple desire to make things known and to share them.
What better occasion, then, to promote cultural and artistic exchange?
Atelier Quattordici Grafica 22250/ Daniela Lorenzi
Photo © Daniela Lorenzi
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