Studio Talks. Aperitif with the artist - 2025/2026 edition

THE PROGRAMME

THURSDAY 11 SEPTEMBER 2025 6-7 P.M.
Francis Offman talks to Linda Fossati
Using everyday materials found or received as gifts, Francis Offman’s research tackles topics such as the climate crisis, colonialism, the history of Italian art and personal memories. Offman’s research is qualified as an extensive study process that questions the dynamics that characterise objects, their history and their circulation within the global economic system.

THURSDAY 23 OCTOBER 2025 6-7 P.M.
Elisa Sighicelli talks to Francesco Manacorda
Elisa Sighicelli uses photography to investigate photography itself as a medium and as art. Sighicelli sees photography as the sphere in which reality is presented as a simple starting point in relation to which this art is free to explore and outline other expressive and existential possibilities. Merging with unusual supports, such as satin, marble and sometimes plastic, her pictures outline shapes and colours that seduce the eye, denying the mind the certainty of recognising irrefutable and objective data.

THURSDAY 13 NOVEMBER 2025 6-7 P.M.
Roberto Cuoghi talks to Marcella Beccaria
Slight physical alterations, complete transformations, temporary disappearances, journeys into the immediate future or the distant past are some of the elements that characterise Roberto Cuoghi's research. Experimenting to the point of obsession, the artist constantly invents himself and his method, exploring various forms of metamorphosis and the most diverse expressive techniques and artistic media, such as photography, video, animation, painting and drawing.

THURSDAY 11 DECEMBER 2025 6-7 P.M.
Enrico David talks to Marianna Vecellio
Considered to be one of the most original artists, driven by an impulse and an existential introspective research, sometimes comic-grotesque and sometimes oneiric-poetic, David draws, paints, sculpts and embroiders. The product of multiple languages, such as painting, tapestry, drawing and sculpture, the work explores the subject of the human figure as a metaphor for transformation: the artist sees the body as an expression of the psychological, physical and inner condition of the contemporary individual.

THURSDAY 29 JANUARY 2026 6-7 P.M.
Adji Dieye talks to Linda Fossati
Adji Dieye's research investigates the concepts of representation and identity in formerly colonised hemispheres and the socio-political structures of the globalised world. Observing the role of culture in fields such as advertising, public monuments and national archives, on one hand Dieye examines the ways in which aesthetic self-determination can be promoted within post-colonial spaces and, looking at the deceptive forms of self-determination promoted in neoliberal circles on the other. Given the historical role of photography, the artist sees it as a tool with which to question the beliefs that underpin representational “knowledge” and the processes of alteration taking place in society today.

THURSDAY 19 FEBRUARY 2026 6-7 P.M.
Grazia Toderi talks to Marcella Beccaria
Grazia Toderi's practice enhances the more immaterial and transcendent aspects of video as an expressive and artistic medium. Structured as endless loop video projections, the artist's works evoke epiphanies of light marked by time streams unfettered by linear logic. If Toderi focused her attention on seemingly everyday, domestic and repetitive actions in her early works, immersing herself in the world, in her later works the artist gradually raises her gaze, moving upwards, above the Earth, expressing herself through aerial images of stadiums, arenas, theatres and cities. Exploring human finiteness and the vastness of the cosmos, Toderi links private memories to a fantastical collective imagery born of media culture.